Asia

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Region: Asia

Asia:

Projects
87
Resources
175
Stories
376
Feature
25th April 2011
CDKN Action Lab - videos of innovative prototypes now online Participants at the CDKN Action Lab developed a series of innovative prototype ideas for dealing with climate compatible development. Click here for a video summary of the Action Lab, and films of all the prototypes.
Resource
13th April 2011
Cancun: the view from Asia Big thinkers from around Asia present their views on what really happened in Cancun.
Feature
1st April 2011
Postcard from Dhaka - Community-based adaptation demands to be heard For a number of years, community-based adaptation has focused on a relatively small number of isolated projects. But if CBA it is to make more of a splash, it’s going to have to ‘scale up’. This was the theme of the fifth conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA5) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the end of March. CDKN's Lindsey Jones reports back.
Feature
21st March 2011
World Forestry Day reflections - what next for REDD+? World Forestry Day on 21 March allows us to reflect on the many and varied benefits of forests to communities around the world. In a guest blog, Kristy Graham of the Overseas Development Institute looks at how the Cancun Agreement on REDD+ sought to safeguard the multiple benefits of forests, and discusses the challenges of integrating forests and REDD+ into low-carbon development strategies.
Feature
9th March 2011
Postcard from Kuala Lumpur - Building resilience in a changing climate Development workers, policy-makers and researchers met in Kuala Lumpur at a CDKN-sponsored conference to explore how Asian societies are building resilience to climate-induced change.
Resource
5th January 2011
In conversation... with Atiq Rahman, Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) in conversation with Dr Atiq Rahman Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies (BCAS) think tank, research and implementation organisation.
Resource
5th January 2011
In conversation with... Edith Ni, Director of Green Earth Volunteers Geoff Barnard of Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) speaks with Edith Ni, Director of Green Earth Volunteers, a China based NGO of journalists that advocate for environmental protection and civil society.
News
3rd January 2011
CDKN's annual partner survey - results are in Read the findings from CDKN's annual partner survey, with feedback on our products and services, performance and the experience of working with CDKN.
Feature
24th December 2010
Postcard from Cancun - an Asian view Pakistan's delegation proposed an alternative definition of climate vulnerability at CoP16 in Cancun, supported by CDKN's Asia team.
Resource
14th December 2010
In conversation... with Dr Hasan Mahmud, Bangladeshi Minister of Environment Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) speaks with Dr Hasan Mahmud, Minister of Environment & Forests, at IIED's Climate & Development Days, COP16.
Resource
8th December 2010
In conversation... with Shafqat Kakakhel, Pakistan Climate Negotiator Mairi Dupar of CDKN interviews Shafqat Kakakhel, Ex-Assistant Secretary General of the UN and member of the Pakistan delegation at COP 16, about the effects of climate change in Pakistan and implications for future climate change financing.
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Project
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Project : Improving access to knowledge on climate and development

CDKN is working with the online information gateway, Eldis, to improve access to key research on climate and development.