Projects

Projects

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Project : Finding land-based solutions to climate change

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.

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Project : Assisting Ghana to deliver climate compatible development

CDKN is supporting the Government of Ghana to take the first steps in developing a National Climate Change Policy Framework (NCCPF).

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Project : Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA): Helping policy-makers understand rural adaptation

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.

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Project : Making climate finance work for Africa

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.

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Project : Choosing the best tools for climate compatible development planning

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.

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Project : Rwanda's new Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy

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.

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Project : Improving access to knowledge on climate and development

CDKN is working with the online information gateway, Eldis, to improve access to key research on climate and development.

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Project : Enriching journalistic coverage of climate and development

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.

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Project : Planning for climate compatible development in the Caribbean

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.

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Project : Making the most of climate finance

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.

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Project : Strengthening climate negotiation capacity in Pakistan

This project, undertaken by LEAD Pakistan, works with the Government of Pakistan to systematically strengthen its climate negotiations capacity.