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Regions

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Projects
313
Resources
612
Stories
1299
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Project : Scaling up climate resilience with Partners for Resilience (PfR)

CDKN is working with the Partners for Resilience (PfR), a unique alliance between three humanitarian/development organisations and two environment/climate centres of expertise, to scale up the best practices of the partners in Asia.

Feature
28th June 2012
Anguilla moves towards cleaner energy CDKN's Carolyn Fry caught up with Beth Barry, Coordinator of the Anguilla Renewable Energy Office, to find out more about the CDKN supported initiative to help Anguilla move towards solar energy.
News
23rd June 2012
CDKN in Rio - learn about our events, publications and partnership activities Join CDKN at its events in Rio or watch us online - and get involved with some of our partnership activities.
Feature
22nd June 2012
How can a mobile phone app help Indian farmers adapt to climate change? Mobile communications are growing, and nowhere more so than in the developing world. Reframing Rio, an ambitious media education project, is following five young digital entrepreneurs as they investigate how a mobile phone app could provide a vital tool for communities struggling with the impacts of climate change.
News
21st June 2012
Climate vulnerable forum takes action CDKN`s Director of Policy and Programmes, Ari Huhtala reports on the discussions held by the Climate Vulnerable Forum at its side event at the Rio+20 Summit.
Feature
20th June 2012
Managing the risks from climate change in Africa - The UNFCCC regional expert meeting on addressing loss and damage Emily Wilkinson is just returned from Addis, where she participated in wide ranging discussions on risk, loss and damage, and damage management tools.
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Project : Pro-poor, low carbon development: Improving low carbon energy access and development benefits in Least Developed Countries

Access to modern energy remains a major challenge for many developing countries. Modern energy services are fundamental for human development and for those living in extreme poverty- a lack of access to modern energy services has adverse impacts including increasing inequality. Read about a project in Kenya which seeks to facilitate the use of energy efficient technologies in Least Developed Countries.

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Project : Assessing institutional and governance partnerships for climate-compatible development in sub-Saharan Africa

This project identifies successful climate compatible development (CCD) models in sub-Saharan Africa which have different combinations of stakeholders in complex and dynamic governance and political economy contexts. Poverty alleviation, partnerships and sharing experiences are central to this project.

Feature
19th June 2012
Seduced by disaster insurance? Don't dive in In this blog CDKN's Tom Mitchell explores the problems with over reliance on disaster insurance and risk transfer.
Resource
13th June 2012
Brochura de la Aliança Clima e Desenvolvimento 2011 Brochura CDKN em Português
Event
11th June 2012
CDKN in Rio - learn about our events, publications and partnership activities Join CDKN at its events in Rio or watch us online - and get involved with some of our partnership activities.
Resource
8th June 2012
INSIDE STORY: Making renewable energy affordable - the South African Renewables Initiative In this Inside Story, Murray Ward explores some of the challenges faced by the South Africa Renewables Initiative (SARi), in particular relating to financing the incremental costs of renewables in a context of political and social opposition to rising energy prices.