Africa

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Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
297
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23rd January 2012
what next for climate negotiations? CDKN's January newsletter offers a round up of content from CDKN, including articles on agriculture and climate change in India, adaptation in disaster risk reduction and outcomes of last years climate negotiations in Durban.
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Project : Operationalising climate science: dialogue between climate scientists and humanitarian and development policy makers

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.

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Project : Building the future with climate change and development professionals: CDKN capacity building

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

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Project : Achieving triple wins - Identifying climate smart investment strategies for the coastal zone

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.

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Project : A Green Guide to align political and social contexts for green and inclusive growth

This Green Guide project will provide policy-makers with a practical, succinct ‘go-to guide’ and web-based tool to strengthen the understanding of linkages between climate change and development.

News
4th January 2012
Durban lays the foundation for further work, in 2012 and beyond Chairman of the LDC group at CoP-17, Pa Ousman Jarju, gives a brief statement outlining the LDCs reactions to the final outcomes at the Durban conference.
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Project : Improving journalists’ capacity to cover climate change: the Climate Change Media Partnership

Over two years, CDKN supported the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) to improve the quality and quantity of climate change coverage in the developing country media, enhance the capacity of journalists to cover the issues and ensure developing country voices are heard in global debates.

Feature
21st December 2011
December newsletter - CDKN's analysis from Durban In December's e-newsletter, CDKN presents coverage and analysis from Durban and highlights our new publication series, Inside Stories, which explores a range of climate compatible development policies and programmes in developing countries.
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16th December 2011
CDKN Africa at CoP17 - Interview with Carl Wesselink, CDKN Africa Regional Director Interview at CoP 17 with Carl Wesselink about how Africa is taking charge of its own climate and development agenda.
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15th December 2011
CDKN at CoP17 - videos from our debates on climate compatible development View videos from the many side events CDKN sponsored at CoP17 on the subject of climate compatible development.
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15th December 2011
Nations on course for a multilateral legal framework on climate mitigation Tim Ash-Vie and Mairi Dupar of CDKN review the outcomes of CoP17 in Durban.
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15th December 2011
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change - what hope for Ethiopia’s water sector? Naomi Oates, Research Assistant at CDKN, reports how developing countries such as Ethiopia will need to respond quickly if they are to cope with predicted future climate impacts. The question is: how should they respond, and what does adaptation to climate change look like in practice?