Africa’s climate change networks debate how to mobilise knowledge for climate action At a meeting of Africa’s climate change knowledge brokers, delegates sought answers to three big questions in the quest to make their networks function effectively. Lisa McNamara of CDKN Africa reports

Can green growth elevate the status of environmental policy? Michael Jacobs summarises the economic and social forces ranged in favour of, and against, green growth and examines how likely it is to succeed in raising the priority of environmental policy in tough economic times.

Finding new ways to swim – conventional versus green growth This guest blog is from Hannah Ryder, Senior Economist at DFID, who discusses two new papers, from UNEP and the World Bank, which contribute to the growing body of evidence on green growth and give us some initial models for green growth pathways.

Lessons for adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr. Richard Munang of the Climate Change Adaptation and Development Programme at UNEP tells CDKN about how to integrate climate risk considerations as early as possible in the policy-making process.