Tomando acción para detener las emisiones e impulsar el desarrollo Muchos países vienen afrontando el reto de qué acción tomar para mitigar el cambio climático y adaptarse a él. En el año 2009, el Presidente Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prometió que Indonesia reduciría sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GHG) en 26% para 2020.

The Africa LEDS Partnership Caroline Spencer reflects on the recent meeting of the Africa LEDS Partnership and why membership is a ‘must have’ for low emissions development champions across the Africa region

Global Climate Policy Conference 2014 CDKN, Overseas Development Institute and Climate Strategies held a public conference on 7-8 May 2014 on strategies to unblock an ambitious global climate deal.

Sector vial de Colombia avanza en la elaboración de su Plan de Adaptación al cambio climático La ola invernal 2010-2011 evidenció que las vías de Colombia son altamente vulnerables a los eventos climáticos extremos, ocasionando daños en infraestructura del orden de los 3,2 billones de pesos.

Announcement of funding opportunity – Future Climate for Africa programme The UK’s research funding body Natural Environment Research Council (

Economic impact assessment of climate change for key sectors in Nepal This report, 'Economic impact assessment of climate change in key sectors in Nepal', assesses how climate change will affect key economic sectors in Nepal, such as agriculture, water and energy

Respondamos al último informe de IPCC con acciones acertadas El informe del Grupo de Trabajo II esboza una gran cantidad de estrategias y medidas documentadas en torno a la forma como dirigimos los recursos naturales, la forma como estamos evolucionando y utilizando la tecnología, que está ayudando a las sociedades a enfrentar los efectos del cambio climático.

WORKING PAPER: Exploring the role of climate science in supporting long-term adaptation and decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa (FCFA) This working paper identifies key gaps in science and capacity to feed into the scoping phase of the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) programme.

Finance for local level adaptation Sam Bickersteth, CDKN's Chief Executive, spoke at the opening plenary of the eighth Community-Based Adaptation conference (CBA8) in Kathmandu, Nepal on 27 April. Here are his opening remarks.

Rethinking disaster risk reduction - making better decisions on HFA2 A public event hosted by ODI and CDKN on 30th April in London - and livestreamed - will examine why climate risk assessments have not been widely translated into action, and what this means for the new global framework for disaster risk reduction.

Watch online the Community Based Adaptation (CBA) international conference Join CDKN at this year’s CBA conference 27– 30th April in Nepal as a virtual participant in a global debate on financing CBA.

IPCC adaptation report points the way to climate resilient development pathways Coordinating Lead Author of the recently released IPCC's AR5 Working Group II report, Aromar Revi reflects on what we can learn from the process and findings