Guide: Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020 CDKN and Acclimatise has released released this guide to provide the most recent guidance and help to navigate the ever-changing GCF project requirements.

Earth Observation data Earth Observation data can fill gaps in field monitoring and measuring in data-scarce regions, and so improve our understanding of climate change - says Georgina Wade of Acclimatise. Urban planners in Monrovia, Liberia are already benefitting from this approach.

REPORT: Green Climate Fund proposal toolkit 2017 This toolkit helps governments and project developers understand how to fulfill the Green Climate Fund’s requirements when developing a fully-fledged funding proposal. This manual, from CDKN and Acclimatise, sets out a step-by-step guide on how to prepare a project proposal for the GCF.

HISTORIA POR DENTRO:Incorporando la resiliencia al cambio climático en la planificación de una ciudad costera: enseñanzas iniciales de Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Esta publicación resume el proceso que llevó a la creación de los lineamientos para el plan de adaptación de Cartagena de Indias en Colombia, el Plan 4C, y destaca cómo éstos sientan la base para un plan municipal de adaptación completo.

Caribbean decision makers benefit from regional-level climate data Launched today: policy brief, infographic and animated presentation on Caribbean climate change trends and how regional decision-makers are using the climate data to guide their investment decisions.

POLICY BRIEF: Climate impacts on agriculture and tourism – the case for climate resilient investment in the Caribbean This document identifies some of the most pressing issues and climate vulnerabilities facing Caribbean states. It makes the case that climate resilience investment by governments, businesses and development partners is urgently needed to sustain economic and social development.

REPORT: How can Bangladesh's private sector engage with the Green Climate Fund? This report provides a snapshot of how the private sector in Bangladesh can engage with the Green Climate Fund to help climate-relevant programmes.

Climate funds face tension between country ownership and pressure to disburse funding Virginie Fayolle, a Senior Economist at Acclimatise, explores some of the tensions between international climate funds' drive to disburse funding and the standards and procedures required of their developing country recipients. This is the first blog from a CDKN learning programme on what makes a 'bankable' climate project.

Inside Story : Embedding climate change resilience in coastal city planning: Early lessons from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia This brief summarises the process that led to the creation of 'Guidelines for Adaptation to Climate Change in Cartagena de Indias', and highlights how they lay the foundation for a full municipal adaptation plan.

What can we learn from CDKN’s Inside Stories on climate compatible development? Mairi Dupar reports on some of the top considerations for decision-makers which can be learned from CDKN’s Inside Stories on climate compatible development

INSIDE STORY: Seizing the sunshine - Barbados' thriving solar water heater industry Barbados has saved millions of dollars in imported fossil fuel costs and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, thanks to its embrace of solar water heating technology. This CDKN ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ explores how it has happened.

POLICY BRIEF: A risk management approach to decision making in the Caribbean This knowledge brief by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC or ‘5Cs’), with support from CDKN, describes how decision-making processes based on risk management will help Caribbean leaders rise to the challenge.