Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
News
17th May 2013
Government of Ethiopia launches newsletter to support Climate Resilient Green Economy strategy The monthly newsletter will communicate lessons learned from implementing Ethiopia’s Climate Resilience and Green Economy (CRGE) strategy.
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Project : Delivering Ethiopia’s Sectoral Reduction Mechanism programme

The primary objective of this project is to build capacity within the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Agency to deliver its Sectoral Reduction Mechanism programme.

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8th May 2013
Bridging the gaps between climate risk research, community resilience, and policy formulation Innovative learning and sharing practices are linking researchers, communities and policy makers, helping coastal Ghanaians become climate resilient.
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Project : Communicating climate compatible development to the Kenyan private sector

CDKN is assisting the Kenya Private Sector Alliance in communicating climate compatible development to the Kenyan private sector.

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Project : Developing a carbon reduction, resources and opportunities toolkit for Kenya’s flower sector

Kenya’s flower sector contributed over £350 million to the national economy in 2011. The flower sector aims to develop a unified response to climate change through practical and localized accounting and management solutions for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy efficiency and water use.

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30th April 2013
Modelling the social costs of mitigation policies Efforts to curb GHG emissions within countries will have ripple effects throughout the economy. Computer models currently under development offer useful tools for policy makers to explore scenarios illustrating the social costs of different mitigation actions.
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23rd April 2013
REPORT: Climate resilience and disaster risk management CDKN, in collaboration with partners across Asia, Africa and Latin America, is pleased to announce a new publication on Climate resilience and disaster risk management. It presents recent results from CDKN-supported projects to assess vulnerability and mainstream climate resilience into development planning.
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Project : AMCOW Capacity Building – Building capacity for climate resilient decision-making in water investments

This project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of planning departments in ministries and local governments in eight African countries by integrating water security and climate resilience into water-related development planning.

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12th April 2013
CDKN East Africa Climate Finance Workshop – Executive Summary Here we present the Executive Summary of a CDKN workshop on climate finance in East Africa at the Friendship Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia over 25-26 March 2013.
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Project : Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) - Phase 2

ACCRA is implementing national level advocacy and capacity building strategies in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique.

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9th April 2013
Learning lessons in climate financing from Africa As a follow-up to yesterday’s report from Ethiopia on climate-compatible development, Louise Brown, Research Analyst with the World Resources Institute, relates her experiences at CDKN’s workshop on climate finance in East Africa
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8th April 2013
Identifying the best routes to climate compatible development In the first of two pieces reporting on CDKN’s workshop on Climate Compatible Development (CCD) in Ethiopia, Mónica Andrade, Regional Coordinator of CDKN LAC, outlines delegates’ views on the drivers of, and barriers to, successful CCD implementation