The Mobilising Investment (MI) project for NDC implementation is a 3-year project focused on interventions within seven target countries: Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Philippines and Vietnam, supported by the German government’s International Climate Initiative (IKI). [more...]
The Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP) facilitates peer learning, technical cooperation and information exchange to support the formation and implementation of low emission development strategies. [more...]
This action research project aims to identify and promote innovative solutions for climate compatible development in small and medium sized cities that are experiencing rapid growth – in order to ultimately improve the lives of the people who are most affected by climate change. [more...]
Future Climate for Africa is a 5-year project that aims to generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and ensure this science has an impact on human development across the continent, through making infrastructure, urban and rural plans and investments more climate resilient. [more...]
CDKN is supporting the Government of Ghana to take the first steps in developing a National Climate Change Policy Framework (NCCPF). [more]…
The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) has developed the Local Adaptive Capacity framework (LAC), to frame its research. CDKN is funding ACCRA over a 6-month period to July 2011 to help it undertake deeper engagement with country governments and policy-makers. [more]…
Within just a few months of the launch of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), our rapid response service fast-tracked a new project for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide urgent technical support on climate finance for the continent. [more]…
In response to demand from a range of practitioners and government officials in developing countries, CDKN is funding and commissioning a new study to help decision makers assess tools for climate compatible development. This comparative analysis will consider a range of donor, private sector, NGO and country-led methodologies for climate compatible development strategy building and planning. [more]…
H.E President Kagame and the Government of Rwanda asked CDKN and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to help it develop a National Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Strategy (NCCLCDS). The strategy, which was developed by the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) at the University of Oxford and completed in August 2011 involved nine months of discussions with stakeholders across ministries, the private sector and civil society. [more]…
CDKN is working with the online information gateway, Eldis, to improve access to key research on climate and development. [more]…
CDKN commissioned Inter Press Service (IPS) to produce a series of news articles on climate and development issues in the run up to COP-16 in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2010. [more]…
CDKN is working with climate risk-management firm Acclimatise to help Caribbean governments come up with a regional Implementation Plan for coping with climate change. [more]…
AGF members asked CDKN to help developing country decision-makers to respond to the AGF's recommendations. CDKN supported climate finance experts at Vivid Economics to prepare reports on the opportunities and risks presented by the AGF’s findings to countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Small Island Developing States. [more]…
This project, undertaken by LEAD Pakistan, works with the Government of Pakistan to systematically strengthen its climate negotiations capacity. [more]…
