IPCC releases full report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) Read about the public release and CDKN's involvement in presenting the report to policy-makers worldwide.

Energy aid and climate compatible development strategies Jos Bruggink is professor emeritus of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam and former head of the unit Policy Studies of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). In this blog, based on his recent research, he challenges the ‘triple-win’ approach to merging adaptation, mitigation and development in climate compatible development approaches.

What legal form should a global climate change deal take? On 22 March CDKN and the Legal Response Initiative (LRI) co-hosted an event on the controversial question: what legal form should a global climate change deal take, and how much does it matter? Dan Hamza-Goodacre, CDKN’s Head of Negotiations Support, reports.

No ‘cookie cutters’ - we’ll do LEDS our own way CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports from the LEDS Global Partnership meeting where members are celebrating the diversity of low emissions development approaches.

Industrial energy efficiency - scoring a hat trick Nicola Cantore from ODI gives us a sneak preview of the upcoming UNIDO report to be released on Tuesday: 'Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation.'

Credible knowledge base is at the heart of low emissions development CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports from this week's meeting of developing country decision-makers, donor programmes and technical institutions at the LEDS Global Partnership.

On the frontline of climate change - cocoa, coffee and culture in Colombia At the Planet Under Pressure conference, Claudia Martinez, Colombia Country Leader for CDKN, will brief the media on the threats from increased flooding and sea level rise to Colombia's coffee, cocoa and sugar industries and the world-famous cultural heritage of the city of Cartagena.

Accelerating the global transition to clean energy Emily Miller reports on the work of the newly created Clean Energy Solutions Center, which is working with policy-makers in South Africa and Indonesia to turn clean energy visions into action.

February newsletter - Innovations in climate compatible development Climate and development outlook newsletter

Changing climate, changing disasters - pathways to integration What if climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk management (DRM) and development had a Rosetta stone that enabled them to integrate their thinking and actions? Patricia Curmi blogs about a new tool from the Strengthening Climate Resilience Forum.

Gender and climate change - making the connections Georgina Aboud, Gender Covenor for the BRIDGE programme at IDS, discusses the gendered dimensions of climate change and highlights some stories of innovative practice from India and Colombia to create local, sustainable and gender appropriate responses to its impacts. She also introduces a new Cutting Edge Pack from BRIDGE that maps how sensitive responses to climate change can be transformative for both women and men.

In conversation with... Emilio La Rovere, Chief Scientific Advisor to CDKN CDKN in conversation with our Chief Scientific Advisor, Emilio La Rovere, who talks about his work with CDKN and how the context for climate compatible development has changed in the two years since CDKN was launched in 2009.