Regions

Regions

Worldwide:

Projects
313
Resources
612
Stories
1299
Feature
31st March 2017
Climate change and gender: Are we risking perverse gender outcomes? Gavin Quibell and Lene Lundsgaard argue that delivering more climate-resilient infrastructure must be accompanied by the protection and enhancement of women's existing roles and autonomy in society.
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Project
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Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project is designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, by offering technical support to the Government of Kenya to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.

Resource
27th March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) brings together scientists, vulnerability experts and knowledge brokers to assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events. This presentation explains the process behind attribution science and provides information on the RRA initiative.
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27th March 2017
What’s behind the record rainfall in Chennai, India? This presentation explores the record rainfall in Chennai on 1 December 2015. A scientific team, as part of the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, assessed whether and to what extent the record rainfall that affected Chennai could, in part, be linked to climate change.
Resource
27th March 2017
Kenya's drought analysis In February 2017, Kenya’s President declared a national emergency due to the extreme effects of the 2016/2017 drought. Here, we share a presentation from the Kenya Meteorological Department, which provides an analysis of Kenya's drought.
Feature
27th March 2017
Caribbean communities on the front lines of climate change adaptation Newly-released analysis from CDKN has identified a series of approaches to help community-level organisations to increase climate resilience. The analysis focusses on the Caribbean, but has widely applicable lessons for community-based adaptation in other parts of the world.
Resource
24th March 2017
INFOGRAPHIC: Adapting to climate change at the local-level Climate change adaptation is, in many ways, a local issue.
Resource
24th March 2017
OUTLOOK: Caribbean Special Edition This Special Edition of Climate and Development Outlook highlights leading-edge initiatives in the Caribbean region to design and use decision support tools for climate-resilient development and to research and apply climate solutions.
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23rd March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events (Swahili version) Raising Risk Awareness presents this Swahili infographic which sets out why attributing extreme weather events is critical and how the process works, towards helping decision-makers and the public to prioritise adaptation solutions and reduce vulnerability.
News
22nd March 2017
Caribbean decision makers benefit from regional-level climate data Launched today: policy brief, infographic and animated presentation on Caribbean climate change trends and how regional decision-makers are using the climate data to guide their investment decisions.
Feature
16th March 2017
Climate data for the Caribbean The CDKN-funded CARibbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG) gives access to climate data that has been downscaled, making it relevant for use in the Caribbean region. The knowledge products below show how this data can be used to support climate resilient decision making in the region.
Resource
16th March 2017
Outlook : Nepal Special Edition Around three quarters of Nepal’s population is dependent on agriculture, which is highly climate sensitive and increasingly at risk from climate change impacts. With CDKN's support, the Nepalese Government has been trialing ways to boost climate resilience in the agriculture, irrigation and hydropower sectors.