Regions

Regions

Worldwide:

Projects
318
Resources
618
Stories
1333
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Project : Disaster and Climate Resilience Across the Eastern Himalayas

The projects aims to provide a regional model for the integration of climate change information into risk reduction and rural development planning at the landscape scale that takes stakeholder perceptions, aspiration, and constraints more fully into account while bringing DRR and CCA processes into closer interaction within institutional and policy spaces.

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Project : Getting climate smart for disasters

This researches the institutional barriers and opportunities in achieving convergence of DRR and CCA in the context of development, poverty and vulnerability reduction.

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Project : Understanding flood risk and resilience in eastern India

This project studied the systemic factors contributing to flood resilience under changing climate conditions in Gorakhpur district. It sets to identify practical measures for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into planning.

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Project : Multi-stakeholder action to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation

Taking the examples of flash floods in Leh (2010) and Bramer (2006) districts in India, the project examines the policy positions adopted by district planners post disaster, and assesses the extent to which these integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) concerns into long term recovery and development planning.

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18th September 2012
INSIDE STORY: Ecuador's Socio Bosque Programme Ecuador’s Socio Bosque Programme has made strides in conserving forest and delivering vital economic benefits to communities and households, via its system of private conservation agreements. What can this teach us about climate compatible development?
Feature
18th September 2012
Demystifying climate-smart agriculture - A private sector perspective What does climate-smart agriculture really mean? This blog argues that investment and expanding business in agriculture, when tied in a sustainable value chain, is always climate-smart.
Resource
17th September 2012
INSIDE STORY: Seizing the sunshine - Barbados' thriving solar water heater industry Barbados has saved millions of dollars in imported fossil fuel costs and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, thanks to its embrace of solar water heating technology. This CDKN ‘Inside story on climate compatible development’ explores how it has happened.
News
17th September 2012
Rwanda, Emerging in a Changing Climate The film co-produced by CDKN and the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) documents the steps Rwanda has taken to simultaneously develop its economy and address the challenges of climate change.
Feature
14th September 2012
How Nepal's mountain dwellers are adapting to climate change Nepali journalist Saroj Dhakal interviews British Council Climate Champion, Saurav Dhakal on his experience of completing the Great Himalayan Trail and what he thinks is needed to promote climate compatible development in the region.
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Project : Climate resilience and food security in Central America

Understanding food system climate resilience and developing practical indicators for communities, development practitioners and policy-makers.

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Project : Climate change: addressing heat-health vulnerability in rapidly urbanising regions of Western India

This research develops an innovative set of strategies, including an early heat-health warning system, to be implemented by local government officials in the city of Ahmedabad, in Gujarat state, India.

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Project : Growing up in adversity - Resilience in families affected by the winter

This project investigates the coping strategies developed by the families in rural areas in the Department of Atlántico, Colombia, which were affected by the hard winter, or rainy season, that hit Colombia in the last year.