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14th September 2015
Gorakhpur film in high demand at India launch “For a safer future: Insights on climate resilience from India” – the new film charting the experiences of Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) to integrate climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in their flood-prone district – received a rousing reception at its launch in India last week.
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Project : Planning for Climate Change (PlanCC) - Phase II

The goal of Phase II is to contribute to the design and development of public policies, tools and methodologies for developing low greenhouse gas emissions.

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9th September 2015
Coordinating climate action between the national and the local level This blog looks at how integrating and coordinating national and subnational initiatives can scale up sustainable urban transportation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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7th September 2015
Report : Participation and planning for climate change - Lessons from an experimental project in Maputo, Mozambique The project ‘Public, Private, People Partnerships for Climate Compatible Development’ (4PCCD) in Maputo, Mozambique, developed participatory planning methods to foster partnerships to tackle climate change. In this paper, the project facilitators describe what they learned from the process.
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4th September 2015
Options for the legal form of the climate agreement With the climax of climate negotiations around the corner, CDKN shares an excerpt from a piece written by Illari Aragon of The Legal Response Initiative and Selam Kidane Abebe, legal advisor to the Africa Group of Negotiators on the legal form options and the potential outcomes.
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Project : Climate change, health, agriculture and disaster analysis

The project is the second of a two phase effort that seeks to facilitate and develop a prioritised and costed policy research agenda and a Plan of Action approved by the Ministry of Health in Mozambique.

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Project : Enhancing Ethiopia’s access to climate finance

The Government of Ethiopia recognises that carbon intensification and environmental degradation are not sustainable.

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1st September 2015
Climate Smart Agriculture: Using the airwaves for greater outreach Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD) write about the use of radio programmes to get the messages from a CDKN supported project on climate-smart agriculture across to those most at risk in Nepal.
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1st September 2015
Water-climate nexus will be central to Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals and the climate change negotiations were high on the agenda at World Water Week, a global event celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden in late August. CDKN Africa’s Ronald Mukanya and Claire Mathieson write.
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Project : Strengthening ICCTF’s capacity to access global climate funds

CDKN facilitated the national climate trust fund by undertaking its fiduciary and institutional capacity review to enable direct access to international climate funds.

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28th August 2015
Quito: A local government at work to achieve climate compatible urban development Alice Reil, ICLEI European Secretariat, reports from a learning exchange organised by CDKN and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability in Quito, Ecuador in late July. The gathering kicked off a new learning endeavour among the organisations and their partners to understand the success factors for delivering and scaling up climate compatible development from the local level.
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27th August 2015
Islamic Climate Declaration could energise Muslim communities for shared cause Muslim communities from around the world have issued the Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change in Istanbul this month. Fachruddin Majeri Mangunjaya, Vice Chairman of the Centre for Islamic Studies, Universitas Nasional, Indonesia and Mochamad Indrawan, CDKN’s Indonesia policy advisor, report on the significance of the declaration, including for Indonesia’s 203 million Muslims.