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325
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626
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1345
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24th August 2017
Reflections on PlanCC and the future of climate compatible development in Peru Mireya Villacis reflects on CDKN's long involvement in supporting Peru to develop and articulate national climate plans - and figure out how to achieve them, and she surveys the future prospects for climate compatible development in the country.
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14th August 2017
Mainstreaming climate compatible development: Insights from CDKN's first seven years This flagship book draws from CDKN's experience of supporting climate-compatible development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and provides practical recommendations on how to achieve low-carbon, climate-resilient development in low income and emerging economies.
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14th August 2017
Rapidly growing Chennai submerged by rare extreme rainfall event This factsheet, from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, examines the impacts of the 1 December 2015 flood in Chennai, that killed over 470 people and brought the city to a standstill.
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14th August 2017
REPORT: Extreme drought in Ethiopia stretches drought management systems This factsheet, from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, examines the impact of the 2015-16 drought on Ethiopia's drought management systems. The drought was an extremely rare event that only happens approximately once every few hundred years in north-eastern and central Ethiopia.
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8th August 2017
The 2016/2017 drought in Kenya This policy brief concludes that, from the climate science perspective, results show the 2016-17 drought in Kenya is less severe than the 2010-11 drought in Lamu, while in Marsabit they are comparable. It provides recommendations for decision-makers to link disaster risk management strategies with climate science.
Feature
2nd August 2017
Five lessons for communicating climate risk We share five lessons on communicating climate risk from our work with local scientists, media, policy-makers and practitioners in India, Kenya and Ethiopia through the Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project
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28th July 2017
REPORT: Assessment of climate-smart agriculture options in Nepal Nepal’s agriculture sector, which accounts for around three quarters of employment and one quarte
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28th July 2017
REPORT: Scaling up pathways for climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices in Nepal The document presents the policy provisions, opportunities and challenges for scaling up climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices in Nepal, achieved through applied qualitative method, specifically a combination of desk study, consultation and field observation.
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24th July 2017
Attributing extreme weather events (Amharic version) What if we could better prepare for hazards like flooding and heat waves by understanding the changing risks of extreme weather events? This short film, presented in Amharic, explains the process behind attribution science and its importance in preparing for the future.
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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
Feature
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.