Projects

Projects

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration: integrating global climate information and regional adaptation portals

This joint initiative between three knowledge brokers aims to advance the user demand-driven development, refinement and cross-linking between weADAPT, the Climate Information Portal (CIP) and AfricaAdapt.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Linking stakeholders to integrated climate change data

This project focuses on two priorities: integrating heterogeneous and globally distributed information sources, and tailoring data into relevant content that can be communicated in a way that allows stakeholders to find sector-specific knowledge.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - addressing the climate change knowledge gap through user-group analysis

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), together with partner knowledge networks, are trying to address the climate change knowledge gap through an in-depth analysis of how different user groups of climate knowledge broker services assess, access and apply knowledge from these services.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Automated tagging tool to make finding climate compatible information easier

The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and reegle, a unique clean energy information portal, are working with three partners (weADAPT, Eldis and OpenEI) on a project that aims to drastically improve the efficiency of tagging and categorizing clean energy documents with a new user interface.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Guiding people to relevant knowledge with the Climate Change Knowledge Navigator

IDS, UNEP, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and REEP are developing a web-based interactive tool – the Climate Change Knowledge Navigator – to guide users through to appropriate climate change information and knowledge brokers. The tool will be embedded in existing websites and portals as a widget.

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Project : Envisioning the mainstreaming of climate change mitigation and adaptation in Lake Victoria Local Authorities development planning

An Innovation Fund project designed to use participatory processes to involve local stakeholders in mainstreaming climate adaptation into Local Authority planning.

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Project : Building climate resilience through risk communication in Ghana’s growing coastal cities

This research project aims to promote the use of climate change risk factors as common indicators for integrating climate compatible development and policy processes in Ghana.

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Project : A 'Public Private People Partnership' for climate compatible development in Maputo (4PCCD)

4PCCD is a project examining the potential of partnerships between public, private and civil society actors to bridge the gap between rhetoric and action in climate change policy.

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Project : Strengthening climate resilience and water security in Africa

CDKN is supporting the work of the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) to develop a framework to help develop investment and financing strategies to promote water security for climate resilient development in Africa.

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Project : Fostering low-carbon technology innovation and transfer: an in-depth study

This project seeks to improve prospects for enhancing technology development, diffusion and transfer through national and international policy. It examines the latest academic insights, national and international instruments for advancing technology, and technology value chains.

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Project : Offsetting carbon for Zambia’s smallholder farmers

Smallholder farmers in developing countries face major barriers to carbon financing: additionality and permanence. This project researched the value of a carbon offset programme that enables Zambian smallholders to plant nitrogen-fixing agroforestry species, as well as improving cost effectiveness through innovative contract design.

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Project : Rwanda - National Climate and Environment Fund (FONERWA)

The Government of Rwanda is developing a national climate change and environment fund to ensure sustainable financing is accessible to support environmental sustainability, resilience to climate change and green growth.