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Feature
25th November 2015
Kanya Onsri of Thailand makes sustainability part of farmers', shoppers' everyday lives Kanya Onsri of Thailand was recently named the winner for the ‘Achieving Results’ category in the Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) annual awards. In this interview, Cathryn Poff finds out how Kanya's community-based work for sustainable, healthy food has grown over the years to have a wide impact in her home country.
Event
23rd November 2015
Public Engagement Workshop on Heat Wave Management in Karachi City, Pakistan CDKN and LEAD Pakistan are holding a public engagement workshop on ‘Heat Wave Management in Karac
Feature
23rd November 2015
Andrea Guerrero of Colombia takes Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) out of 'green silo' CDKN celebrates the work of the winners of the Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) annual awards. Andrea Guerrero of Colombia was nominated by her peers and chosen by the judges as a winner for the 'Acting on Implementation' category. Here, Cathryn Poff catches up with Andrea and finds out how she's used her position with the Ministry of Environment of Colombia to break out of the 'green silo' and inspire others.
Feature
18th November 2015
Direct access to international climate finance - a view from Latin America and the Caribbean Mathieu Lacoste of CDKN provides an overview of the status of climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. He explores how countries of the region are creating the conditions to enjoy direct access to climate finance in the future.
News
18th November 2015
Bridging the green growth gap in Costa Rica Today, ODI releases a new report assessing whether Costa Rica has achieved the green growth outcomes that its policies were designed to achieve. Authors Ilmi Granoff; Monica Araya, Philipp Ulbrich, Sam Pickard and Caroline Haywood introduce the report, which was co-sponsored by CDKN.
Feature
16th November 2015
G20 holds keys to our safe climate future Tony de Brum, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim, Minister of Environment of Angola and Chair of the Least Developed Countries have issued this statement as the G20 meet in Antalya, Turkey.
Feature
13th November 2015
Adaptation action key to Kenya’s INDC As the international climate negotiations at COP 21 fast approach, Stephen King'uyu, Kenya National Climate Change Action Plan coordinator, looks back at Kenya’s pledge and how adaptation actions will complement the country’s development programme.
Feature
13th November 2015
Learning by doing - testing models for rural electrification in India and Uganda Juliane Nier and Susannah Fitzherbert-Brockholes of CDKN report on how businesses in India and Uganda are learning from each other about the scale-up of decentralised renewable energy technologies.
Feature
13th November 2015
Climate compatible development in cities : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean Maria Jose Pacha, Knowledge and Networks Coordinator for CDKN in Latin America and the Caribbean, shares lessons learned that were developed in a knowledge-exchange event in Quito in July 2015. Ten projects implementing climate compatible development in cities in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize and Jamaica presented their work and reflected on their achievements and challenges.
Feature
11th November 2015
Understanding India's emissions pledge India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) has a headline pledge to reduce emissions intensity 33-35% by 2030. Radhika Khosla and Navroz K. Dubash of the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi explain what this means in context.
Feature
5th November 2015
Synergies: A way to respond to the complexity of climate change Paula Ellinger da Fonseca, Regional Climate Change Manager at Fundación Avina, joins the Low Emission Development Strategies Latin America and Caribbean (LEDS LAC) annual event and is inspired to hear of the many possible synergies between climate adaptation and mitigation actions.
Feature
4th November 2015
How the private sector can help Nepal's hydropower sector adapt to climate change CDKN’s partners report on a workshop on private sector engagement in Nepal’s hydroelectricity sector organised by the Nepal Development Research Institute (NDRI) and Practical Action Consulting (PAC) under the CKDN supported project ‘Acting on Adaptation in the Hydroelectricity Sector’.