Latin America and the Caribbean

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Projects
70
Resources
92
Stories
118
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Project : Regional centre on climate change and decision-making

CDKN is supporting the Regional Centre on Climate Change and Decision-Making to strengthen its impact in the region and by a conveyor for science and policy on climate change.

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8th May 2015
How to enthrall and how to drive change Claudia Martinez and Pippa Heylings report on CDKN’s Knowledge Lab in Colombia this week. The lab was organised to innovate new ideas for communicating climate change and galvanising public action.
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Piloting climate change adaptation measures in the Metropolitan District of Quito

The project looked to identify, prioritise, develop and implement adaptation measures that help reduce the climate vulnerability of natural and anthropic attributes to the population of the Metropolitan District of Quito

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Subnational climate compatible development: Learning from CDKN’s experience Phase II

Phase II of the Sub-national Learning Programme on climate compatible development presents an excellent opportunity to build on and enhance the learning achieved in the first phase of the CDKN and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) partnership.

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Project : Disrupting urban 'risk traps' - Bridging finance and knowledge for climate resilient infrastructure planning in Lima

Born out of Learning Lima, this research project explored how environmental hazards and sm

Feature
28th April 2015
Getting climate finance ready - insights from Jamaica (Part 2) Part 2 of our interview with Claire Bernard of the Planning Institute of Jamica provides insights into how Jamaican institutions have managed national climate change priorities and mobilised the financial resources to support their goals.
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28th April 2015
Getting climate finance ready - insights from Jamaica (Part 1) Claire Bernard of the Planning Institute of Jamica (PIOJ) provides insights into how Jamaican institutions have prepared to receive and manage international climate finance and what their experience can offer others.
Resource
28th April 2015
REPORT: The water-energy-food nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean In our hyper-connected world, water, energy and food are increasingly interdependent. A new report, commissioned by CDKN, looks at how climate change will affect the use of scarce natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean and highlights opportunities to achieve water, energy and food security.
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27th April 2015
Transformative climate agendas Jorge Villanueva of CDKN Latin America reports on the three-day Action Lab, held in Ecuador in March 2015, which brought together representatives from different organisations in order to come up with innovative ways to generate integrated climate agendas in the region.
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.
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1st April 2015
Argentina's urban agriculture and forestry in pictures A report from RUAF and CDKN assesses how urban agriculture and forestry is integrated into climate plans in Rosario, Argentina and the below images take us through the journey of Rosario's new climate change adaptation plans.
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31st March 2015
Report : Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans For cities to be sustainable, they need to simultaneously mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions and ensure adequate access to basic urban services such as water, food and energy to their growing populations. A new report from CDKN and RUAF Foundation looks at the cases of Sri Lanka and Argentina where urban adaptation plans have achieved numerous benefits.