Interview with CDKN's CEO, Sam Bickersteth
Watch CDKN's Chief Executive, Sam Bickersteth, being interviewed by Climate Change TV, on CDKN's mission and strategy. He introduces CDKN and gives case studies from the Punjab and Rwanda to show how we work and what we hope to achieve.
Resource
28th June 2011
CDKN speaks to Sophia Wirsching about climate change and migration
Sophia Wirsching, Consultant on Climate Change and Development at Bread for the World, discusses the migration effects of climate change and efforts currently underway to create a policy position on migration between a host of different development and climate organisations.
CDKN speaks with Daniel Schensul, UN Population Fund
CDKN interviews Daniel Schensul, from the UN Population Fund, about about the social and human dimensions of climate change and how to put people at the heart of climate change solutions.
Cancun to Durban via Bonn
IIED's Saleemul Huq reports back from the UNFCCC talks in Bonn, Germany. Read what he has to say about the progress of the talks, and his prediction for the forthcoming CoP17 conference in Durban, South Africa.
Baby steps on climate cooperation bring small victories, but not enough to stave off climate-related suffering
The prospects for securing an ambitious, inclusive global climate deal any time in the next two to three years are weak, and the subsequent prospects for grave climate change impacts on the world’s poorest people are a cause for deep concern. That is the message from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) on the closure of the latest UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany.
Feature
16th June 2011
Making power generation resilient to climate change
As nations meeting in Bonn conclude talks on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, the time is right to examine how power generation can be not only low-carbon, but also climate-resilient. Frauke Urban reports.
Feature
9th June 2011
Postcard from Bonn - Capacity building for LDC negotiators in UN climate talks
Tristan Stubbs reports from the CDKN side event in Bonn, Germany, on capacity building for least developed country negotiators in the UN climate talks. Read what he has to say about the severe disadvantages that these negotiators face.
Feature
8th June 2011
Seeking a cure for portal proliferation syndrome
The symptoms are familiar. You seem to hear about a new climate information portal or knowledge platform being launched every week. You check it out and it seems impressive at first glance. Nice graphics. Promising headings. Ambitious objectives. Cool tools. But as you click further you start to wonder.