POLICY BRIEF: How to build consensus in climate change negotiations This policy brief was the result of an event convened by CDKN and PwC in October 2012 at which leading thinkers presented their ideas for increasing the collective global ambition for climate action.

COP18 - Join CDKN side events in Doha Please join us in person, or follow our events on our website and Twitter as CoP18 unfolds. CDKN will be supporting and participating in several events – we’d love to see you there, or at our display stand in the official exhibition area.

Communities need greater support to cope with loss and damage from climate shifts CDKN’s Kashmala Kakakhel reports from CoP 18 in Doha on five new case studies that show how climate change is affecting communities’ lives in Kenya, the Gambia, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Micronesia.

Une introduction à CDKN 2012: la brochure CDKN 2012 brochure en français

Join our live online debate on loss and damage from climate change Join the live online debate - Paying the price: Who will pay the costs of losses and damage from climate impacts? Taking place on today from 12:00-13:00 GMT

UN talks must lay path to new climate deal Megan Rowling from Alertnet climate talks to CDKN and other organisations about their hopes and fears for COP18 in Doha

SREX: Lessons for Asia This brief, SREX: Lessons for Asia, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Asia.

Climate smart-agriculture needs an excellent evidence base to access large-scale funding Elevating climate-smart agriculture to achieve significant international funding on the scale we need will require innovative partnerships that can quantify effective change on the ground, says Dr Natasha Grist, Research Fellow in Climate Smart Agriculture at ODI and Head of Agriculture and Coastal Clusters, CDKN

REPORT: Climate & Development Research Review The Climate & Development Research Review highlights key trends in a growing body of research on the links between climate change and development.

The potential of micro-insurance for DRR? Nasreen Rashid, Executive Advisor, EFU Group of Insurance, Pakistan reflects from the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) on the role of micro-insurance in DRR strategies

Edison lights the way to a low-carbon energy sector Steve Thorne, energy expert and Director of SouthSouthNorth, casts a critical eye over conventional energy supply and suggests policy makers could learn a lesson from Thomas Edison in how to deliver low-carbon energy services

Low Carbon Economy Index reveals 2°C target is unrealistic PwC’s latest Low Carbon Economy Index reveals that our current rate of decarbonisation is falling well short of ambitions for avoiding dangerous climate change, as Jonathan Grant, Director, Sustainability & Climate Change at PwC reveals.