Projects

Projects

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Project : CORDEX-Africa: enhancing the use of climate information in decision-making

This project will further advance outreach and capacity building efforts by developing guidance materials that will allow climate model data to be used across disciplines and decision-making contexts.

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Project : Journalism research on climate change and development in Latin America

This initiative arose from the need to incorporate issues related to climate compatible development in the Caribbean, in order to raise awareness and publicise not only the threats but also the opportunities that climate change may bring.

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Project : Exploring local access to the Green Climate Fund (GCF)

The objective of this project is to ensure that the Green Climate Fund is directly accessible to sub-national stakeholders, including local authorities, civil society organisations and knowledge institutions, in order for them to design and implement sustainable adaptation strategies.

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Project : Renewable Energy Empowerment in Sierra Leone: A Vision to Electrify Rural Sierra Leone

This project aims to build a national renewable energy knowledge base for Sierra Leone from which an inclusive and participatory national renewable energy policy may be developed.

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Project : Ecosystems-based approaches to building resilience in urban areas: Making the case for a framework for smart decision-making criteria

Ecosystem-based adaptation is listed in the Durban Adaptation Charter as a priority action for local and sub-national governments. This project brings together urban practitioners, policy makers and the scientific community/leading thinkers to draft a “framework” for smart decision-making criteria around Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and ecosystems management for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

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Project : Understanding climate diplomacy

This project aims to understand how climate change can be effectively integrated into foreign policy and to recommend what role CDKN can play.

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Project : Building the climate resilience of the coffee value chain in Uganda through stakeholder dialogues

This project will provide an innovative platform for dialogue on climate risk management among actors along the Ugandan coffee value chain, from production to export. The overall goal is to support the mainstreaming of climate risks into agriculture value chains in Uganda to promote the sustainable and equitable growth.

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Project : Using climate finance to upscale the Ethiopian National Biogas Programme – a biogas NAMA

This project developed a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) for the Ethiopian Biogas sector that explores options to upscale the National Biogas Programme through access to international climate finance.

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Project : Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA)

The Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA) project will develop national energy strategies in Benin, Mali and Togo that take into account the impacts of climate change while meeting other development goals.

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Project : LDC Policy Paper Series

Climate change is one of the most complex issues addressed by humanity.

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Project : Quisqueya Dialogue

This project will create a capacity building hub on the island of Hispaniola to increase capacity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

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Project : Reframing Rio

The Reframing Rio project aims to increase global public engagement and trigger new global debates around sustainable development in the lead-up to, and beyond, the Rio +20 meeting in June 2012.