Climate talks in Bonn - search for consensus CDKN's Head of Negotiatons Support, Dan Hamza-Goodacre, brings us this blog outlining how we can move forward from a set of talks at Bonn that left many fearing the recent negotiations rounds was a case of 'one step forward, two steps back'.

Loss and damage - building up steam at the Bonn climate talks While the Bonn negotiations last week proved frustrating for many work areas, Loss and Damage was one issue which made considerable progress. Read about the outcomes of the Bonn discussions, and what they may mean for COP-18 in Doha.

Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) collaboration in action workshop CDKN and DFID co-hosted the LEDS Collaboration in Action workshop, over 20th-23rd May in the UK, on behalf of the LEDS Global Partnership (LEDS GP). The workshop brought together more than 125 representatives from developed and developing countries, implementing organizations and multilateral institutions.

Latest from the SREX regional events Read the latest on CDKN's work communicating the results of the IPCC SREX reports to regional policy makers in developing countries, through a three part report series and 6 regional events in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

Bringing climate change disaster planning into the boardroom CDKN launches its new report ‘Tackling Exposure; Placing Disaster Risk Management at the Heart of National Economic and Fiscal Policy’ at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Addis Ababa on Thursday 9 May.

slow work on emissions reductions talks Climate negotiators have gathered in Bonn, Germany until 25 May to take forward the commitments made at the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Durban last December. Authors from CDKN and LRI take the temperature of the talks.

exploring the theme of multi-level governance for urban adaptation How to integrate local and national efforts for adaptation? Reporting from the Resilient Cities Congress in Bonn, Patricia León explores some examples of how urban and national authorities can cooperate for successful climate compatible development.

Drive on by? Will upcoming meetings in Bonn take the opportunity to make progress on addressing drivers of deforestation? Addressing deforestation is a way for many developing countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Emily Brickell looks at opportunities to tackle the drivers of deforestation in non-forest sectors during two key international meetings this month.

Supporting collaboration between climate knowledge brokers Following up on a highly successful workshop last year, around 30 representatives from leading climate knowledge broker initiatives will reconvene in Bonn, in the midst of the UNFCCC Intersessionals this year.

Highlights from the Climate Knowledge Brokers' Workshop The Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop was convened in Bonn from 18-20 May. Geoff Barnard and Mairi Dupar blogged from the workshop - read on to find out whether knowledge infrastructure is more of a pond or a network, and what makes web users tick.

In conversation with Neil Bird, Climate Finance lead for CDKN Neil Bird, Research Fellow on climate finance at ODI, talks about CDKN's work on improving access to climate finace for developing countries.

A positive vision for the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee Heleen de Connick and Letha Tawney describe why we all have a stake in the success of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism and set out their vision for how the Technology Executive Committee can rise to the challenging task of facilitating global technology development and transfer.