Asia

Region: Asia

Asia:

Projects
87
Resources
175
Stories
378
Feature
19th January 2012
Community ripples - watch how villages are building disaster resilience in Bangladesh Watch the winner of the CDKN-sponsored IIED Development and Climate Days film competition, which took place at CoP-17 in Durban.
Feature
18th January 2012
Agriculture and climate change in India B.Venkateswarlu, Director of India's Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, writes about the measures needed to make Indian agriculture more climate-resilient.
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Project : REDD-net Asia: Dialogue with governments and civil society organisations in Asia and the Pacific

REDD-net Asia Pacific will extend its knowledge-sharing activities to policy-level engagement in order to raise awareness of REDD+ issues and help connect local level concerns and experiences to national/regional processes.

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Project : Land use policy optimization: integrating global to local approaches to enhance land use planning capacity and governance in Vietnam

This project combines economic and biophysical models with Vietnamese land use data to examine various long-term scenarios, with the aim of building a ‘knowledge infrastructure platform’ to support the formulation of adequate land use policies.

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Completed
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.

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.
Resource
3rd January 2012
Are we integrating climate adaptation practices in disaster risk reduction? A review of global experience by Mott Macdonald, sponsored by CDKN, looks at how climate change adaptation is being integrated into disaster risk reduction - and how such principles could strengthen post-flood reconstruction in Pakistan.
Event
1st January 2012
Stakeholder consultation on loss & damage A stakeholder workshop held in Dhaka in January 2012 provided valuable inputs into the design of a work programme for Bangladesh on loss and damage.
Completed
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Completed
Project : Integrating climate change into food security data collection in Nepal

The Government of Nepal is putting in place a policy framework to address the effects of climate change. The recently approved National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) and Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) aim to ensure adaptation to climate change is incorporated into mainstream development efforts.

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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.