Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
96
Resources
155
Stories
302
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Project : Using climate finance to upscale the Ethiopian National Biogas Programme – a biogas NAMA

This project developed a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) for the Ethiopian Biogas sector that explores options to upscale the National Biogas Programme through access to international climate finance.

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Project : Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA)

The Energy, Ecodevelopment and Resilience in Africa (EERA) project will develop national energy strategies in Benin, Mali and Togo that take into account the impacts of climate change while meeting other development goals.

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Project : LDC Policy Paper Series

Climate change is one of the most complex issues addressed by humanity.

Feature
21st February 2013
Economic assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda CDKN invites interested organisations to respond to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to assess the economic impacts of climate change for Uganda with a focus on climate-sensitive sectors of the economy.
Resource
18th February 2013
WORKING PAPER: Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development This working paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these.
News
15th February 2013
Guiding the world towards a green global economy A collaboration between the UNDP International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) and the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum aims to show policy-makers how to make “green growth” a reality at local, regional and global levels.
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Project : Reframing Rio

The Reframing Rio project aims to increase global public engagement and trigger new global debates around sustainable development in the lead-up to, and beyond, the Rio +20 meeting in June 2012.

Resource
11th February 2013
POLICY BRIEF: Climate Finance: Challenges and Responses This policy brief provides CDKN’s assessment of the gaps in global knowledge and the immediate challenges for the international community in all three of these strategic priorities for climate finance.
Feature
8th February 2013
Climate Finance Advisory Service FAQs We answer questions on our Climate Finance Advisory Service (CFAS), which provides guidance to decision-makers in the most climate vulnerable countries to help them effectively participate in global climate finance negotiations.
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Project : Subnational climate compatible development - Learning from CDKN’s experience

CDKN is working on a range of initiatives to share learning from our programme to date. One of these is an initiative to capture and synthesise lessons learned from our work at the sub-national level in developing countries.

News
2nd February 2013
World ignores disasters in southern Africa Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull provide news of the heavy rains and floods currently blighting Mozambique and ask why is it receiving so little media coverage?
Resource
30th January 2013
INSIDE STORY: Harnessing geothermal energy: The case of Kenya Kenya’s heavy reliance on hydroelectricity production has made the country vulnerable to climate change impacts, such as drought and erratic rainfall patterns. Energy sector reforms in Kenya are beginning to stimulate and fast-track the country’s geothermal industry in line with the country’s vision of climate compatible development.