A multi-partner alliance project to investigate the benefits of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry.

This project, funded by the CDKN Innovation Fund, aims to create a thought-provoking platform to explore and support cross-sectoral climate compatible development strategies and plans for Vientiane, Lao PDR.

Climate change affects women first and worst. Women are also a key part of the solution. In India, CDKN has supported policy research on gender and climate change adaptation, to mainstream gender in State-level Action Plans on Climate Change.

This project embeds science into humanitarian work, designing participatory games and other innovative tools for smart forecast-based decisions. The goal is to manage climate risks and promote effective responses for development and adaptation in Africa across various sectors, time scales, and spatial scales of decision.

CDKN is supporting Anguilla’s efforts to increase its resilience to climate change; achieve energy independence; and to meet its vital energy needs with reliable, affordable and renewable energy resources.

Following a proposal put forward by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in 2008, the issue of Loss and Damage was included on the agenda of official international climate negotiations. Despite this achievement, the exact definition of Loss and Damage is still being contested and argued over within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

CDKN is working with the Meridian Institute to support dialogue on the nexus between agriculture and climate change in the context of UNFCCC negotiations. The project aims to facilitate discussion among developing country leaders on agriculture-climate links through a 12 month dialogue process.

REDD-net Asia Pacific will extend its knowledge-sharing activities to policy-level engagement in order to raise awareness of REDD+ issues and help connect local level concerns and experiences to national/regional processes.

This project combines economic and biophysical models with Vietnamese land use data to examine various long-term scenarios, with the aim of building a ‘knowledge infrastructure platform’ to support the formulation of adequate land use policies.

As part of the part of the Humanitarian Futures Programme, this project brings together partners from developing and developed countries to strengthen dialogue between scientists and policy-makers and explore how climate science can more effectively support humanitarian, disaster risk reduction and development planning.

This project supports climate and development-related research by 14 MSc students from across the globe.

This project supports national coastal planners and policy-makers in selecting appropriate adaptation and mitigation priorities for the coastal zone, by helping to identify co-benefits and trade-offs.