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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration: integrating global climate information and regional adaptation portals

This joint initiative between three knowledge brokers aims to advance the user demand-driven development, refinement and cross-linking between weADAPT, the Climate Information Portal (CIP) and AfricaAdapt.

Resource
9th May 2012
GUIDE: Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy The CDKN Guide to Tackling Exposure considers whether economic and fiscal planning at national levels can reduce exposure to disasters, before considering the necessary steps countries must take to achieve economic development in a more climate-resilient way.
Resource
9th May 2012
INSIDE STORY: A new direction in climate compatible development - Indonesia's forest moratorium In 2011, Indonesia's President signed into law a two-year moratorium on new permits to exploit primary natural forest and peatland. This CDKN 'Inside story on climate compatible development' explores the potential of Indonesia's forest moratorium, and lessons for other countries.
Feature
8th May 2012
the lessons of the IPCC SREX report for South Asia CDKN's Elizabeth Colebourn and Amy Kirbyshire report back from the New Delhi, India outreach event where diverse stakeholders discussed the IPCC's SREX report.
Resource
8th May 2012
INSIDE STORY: Achieving development goals with renewable energy – the case of Tanzania Tanzania's Small Power Projects programme is supporting the country's economic growth and human development, while limiting its greenhouse gas emissions, as Lutz Weischer explains in this latest 'Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development' from CDKN.
Event
3rd May 2012
IPCC SREX Outreach - Delhi, 2-3 May 2012 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and local partners hosted an outreach event on ‘Managing the Risks of Climate Extremes and Disasters in Asia – What can we learn from the IPCC Special Report?’ at Le Meridien, New Delhi, India on 2 – 3 May 2012. Find the recording and presentations from the event here.
Resource
25th April 2012
Policy brief: Latin America and the Caribbean in a future high ambition deal This policy brief, produced by Energeia and supported by CDKN, discusses the outcomes and implications of CoP-17 for the Latin American region.
Feature
25th April 2012
Enhancing the impact of the community of CBA practitioners CDKN's CEO Sam Bickersteth attended the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum, in Hanoi. Here he talks about what we need to do to ensure growing momentum in CBA is mainstreamed to transformational climate adaptation.
Feature
25th April 2012
Vulnerable communities lead the way on adaptation What advances in understanding should we glean from the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum in Vietnam? Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Climate Change Fellow at IIED, discusses the outcomes.
Feature
18th April 2012
Suppressed demand - Unlocking climate finance for Africa Read how suppressed demand can be accounted for in carbon markets to leverage climate finance for cleaner development and enable the poor to benefit from carbon finance from the Clean Development Mechanism.
Feature
16th April 2012
Climate resilience in Asian cities Franziska Schwarz of CDKN reports on a special session on resilience-building in Asian cities at the recent Planet Under Pressure conference.
News
16th April 2012
Looking ahead to the 6th Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Conference Ali T. Sheikh, CDKN Asia Director, discusses why the upcoming 6th Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Conference in Vietnam, 16-20th April 2012, is important for turning CBA from a ‘niche’ to the norm.