Asia

Region: Asia

Asia:

Projects
87
Resources
175
Stories
380
Feature
21st April 2015
What next for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction? Perspectives from South Asia Now that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction has been established, what does it mean for South Asian countries? CDKN's Amy Kirbyshire reports.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Towards a sustainable development-based Indian INDC

The INDC provides an opportunity for examining and enhancing such approaches toward a climate compatible development transition in India.

Feature
20th April 2015
Escaping the fuel subsidy trap in Indonesia Dina Khan, Country Programme Manager, CDKN Asia, takes an in-depth look at President Joko Widodo's attempts at overhauling Indonesia’s politically sensitive fuel subsidy programme. Will he have better luck than his predecessors?
Completed
Project
Completed
Supporting the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) process in Pakistan

Under this project, CDKN supported the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan (GoP) in building its capacity to plan and develop its INDC for submission to the UNFCCC.

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Completed
Project : Renewable energy solutions for Punjab’s industrial sector: Evaluating the NAMA approach in Sialkot City

The project aims to enhance understanding of the public and private sectors in Punjab, Pakistan regarding the potential role of renewable energy based solutions and NAMA as a policy tool in meeting industrial energy needs.

Feature
15th April 2015
India’s 2015 Union Budget CDKN’s Senior Country Advisor for India, Mihir Bhatt, assesses the degree to which India’s 20
News
15th April 2015
CDKN project in Pakistan to help Small and Medium-sized Enterprises meet energy challenges Khizer F. Omer, Country Programme Manager, CDKN Asia, writes about CDKN’s renewable energy-based industrial solutions and the way forward for a beleaguered industrial sector.
Feature
13th April 2015
Pakistan ready to set a roadmap for reducing carbon emissions The government with contributions from with line ministries and experts from Pakistan and abroad including CDKN, officially launched a six-month national consultative dialogue to develop Pakistan’s contributions to limit global temperature rise below 2C.
Feature
12th April 2015
Water shortages send wake-up call to Pakistan A policy dialogue convened by LEAD Pakistan and CDKN with the Government of Pakistan explored how development of the country's water resources could be more 'climate compatible' - and involve some tough challenges for the agriculture sector.
News
9th April 2015
More free resources for communicating climate change CDKN presents new resources as part of its ‘media toolkit’ to encourage discussion of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and What's in it for Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Small Island Developing States.
Resource
7th April 2015
REPORT: Addressing vulnerability to the health risks of extreme heat in urbanising Ahmedabad, India Extreme heat events are having a significant impact in India, where summer temperatures are
Feature
7th April 2015
Introducing renewable energy franchising for rural electrification in India Rakesh Khanna and Priyali Bhardwaj of TARA explore how a 'Climate and Development Business Network' initiative backed by CDKN, TARA and cKinetics is introducing new technologies to improve energy access in rural India - in a climate-friendly way.