Regions

Regions

Worldwide:

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317
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614
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1320
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19th July 2017
REPORT: Road map - Actions for setting a green bond market in Colombia This Road Map is the second of a series of three documents prepared by E3–Economía, Ecología y Ética, and METRIX–Finanzas, in association with PwC UK and Climate Bonds Initiative, on the development of a green bond market in Colombia
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19th July 2017
Droughts in East Africa Friederike Otto and Maarten van Aalst of the Raising Risk Awareness initiative explain the science around uncovering whether the recent drought in East Africa has been impacted by the presence of human-induced climate change.
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13th July 2017
Policy brief: Making energy efficiency markets work Energy efficiency is the lowest cost way of meeting India’s energy needs and can enable India to decouple rising growth from rising emissions. As a result India announced an ambitious climate change policy to make the Indian economy significantly more energy efficient.
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13th July 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Making Indian cities climate smart India’s policy response to the needs for sustainable, resilient and low-carbon cities is the Smart City Mission that promotes “cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to their citizens, a clean and sustainable environment while applying ‘Smart’ Solutions.”
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13th July 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Making renewable energy markets work In 2015, India enhanced its renewable energy target to 175GW by 2022 supported by a concrete and comprehensive roadmap of policy and regulatory reforms, market-support, detailing technology need and bilateral and global cooperation.
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13th July 2017
Policy brief: Making India’s green growth market work The Indian economy is growing quickly, and continual improvements in energy and infrastructure are central to sustaining India's growth. India is committed to green growth, which impacts the way in which these improvements are designed and delivered.
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13th July 2017
The India-UK partnership on energy and green growth Over the last decade the UK government has been collaborating with the Indian government, companies and cities on green growth issues through the cross-government Energy Climate and Growth Unit based in Delhi. These programmes have helped improve India’s energy security and access, deepened research partnerships, increased the flow of investments in renewable energy and supported India’s low-carbon, climate resilient transition.
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7th July 2017
Inside Story: Catalysing energy efficiency in small and medium-sized enterprises in priority sectors in Peru This Inside Story draws out lessons from a CDKN project which focused on the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market in Peru, aiming to develop a broader understanding of the key actors, structure and dynamics of the current energy market.
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7th July 2017
Outlook: Kenya Special Edition This Outlook newsletter explores how CDKN has supported climate compatible development in Kenya and features news of the new CDKN office in Kenya. It also discusses state-of-the-art climate science, mobilising finance for climate action and working with Kenya’s private sector.
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29th June 2017
Science summary: The drought in Ethiopia, 2015 The worst drought in decades gripped north and central Ethiopia in 2015, affecting nearly 10 million people. As part of the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, a partnership of scientists have conducted an analysis to determine whether climate change played a role in the drought.
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20th June 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Framework for effectiveness and resilience of small and medium-scale irrigation systems in Nepal A CDKN project helped the Government of Nepal to assess how irrigation will be affected by climate change - and to come up with recommendations to improve irrigation practices and make them more climate-resilient.
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19th June 2017
REPORT: Bridging Costa Rica's green growth gap Costa Rica is regarded by many as an economic and environmental success story with an admirable record of ‘green growth’. This report explores the performance of Costa Rica seen as an economic and environmental model, looking at concrete results, first in the economy and then in the environment.