#Art4Resilience: Announcing the Knowledge-into-Use award winners The Resilience Evidence Coalition, a network consisting of the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), CDKN and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), has announced the second round of the Knowledge-into-Use awards. The awards celebrate creativity, embrace innovation and showcase the latest resilience evidence.

Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’ COVID-19 has changed our world. To mark Earth Day 2020, and the global call to act on climate change, Saleemul Huq of ICCCAD and Sheela Patel of SPARC India ask: what lessons can we apply from the pandemic response to help tackle other global crises, including the climate emergency?

Reflections on the 9th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation The 9th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation this year not only saw an increase in participation but also an increase in engagement. CDKN Africa’s Claire Mathieson caught up with Dr Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development to discuss the positive outcomes of CBA9.

What does the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report mean for vulnerable countries? Saleemul Huq is a Fellow at the IIED (UK) and Director of the ICCAD (Bangladesh). He is also a Senior Advisor to CDKN and a Lead Author on the forthcoming IPCC report on adaptation, impacts and vulnerability. Here he provides his response to the recent IPCC report on the physical science of climate change.

Empowering communities to monitor the impact of their work Saleemul Haq reflects on how a programme supported by CDKN in Bangladesh is spreading an innovative new bottom-up approach to monitoring and evaluating community based adaptation

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.