This project aims to establish and build an understanding of the crucial role of peri-urban ecosystems and mainstream ecosystem-resilience into capacity development programmes. [more...]
This project seeks to contribute to climate adaptive and inclusive water governance by encouraging evidence-informed decision-making at local, provincial and federal levels of government. [more...]
This project aims to mainstream Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies and practices into provincial and local government policies and planning. [more...]
This project is working to inform national level adaptation financing through testing a range of adaptation options at two deltas in Bangladesh. [more...]
18 CARICOM leaders endorsed the Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change in July 2009 (the “Framework”), prepared by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). The Framework provides a [more]…
CDKN has supported the development of two insightful reports on including land in the climate change solution, researched and written by the Terrestrial Carbon Group. [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]…
