This project aimed to create a base line for the identification of resilient attitudes of families who have been displaced by severe weather events in Manatí, Atlántico, Colombia.
Over the last decade a new term has entered the lexicon of policy makers and the media: climate change refugees or climate change induced forced displacement. The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR1) in 1990 noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human displacement and migration.
The challenge of how to promote growth and poverty alleviation while avoiding irreversible and costly environmental d
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16th October 2021
Finance for Resilience
CDKN's podcast series, Finance for resilience: Unlocking climate action, focuses on emerging themes within the climate finance field, and highlights innovative solutions from practitioners and experts.
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3rd January 2012
Are we integrating climate adaptation practices in disaster risk reduction?
A review of global experience by Mott Macdonald, sponsored by CDKN, looks at how climate change adaptation is being integrated into disaster risk reduction - and how such principles could strengthen post-flood reconstruction in Pakistan.
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1st September 2022
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in North Africa
CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.
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1st September 2022
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in East Africa
CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.
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21st November 2013
Will the climate ever change for Sunderbans
CDKN/Panos Journalist Fellow and Nature India Editor, Subhra Priyadarshini's investigative report on the Sunderbans was recently recognised by the Global Investigative Journalist Network
Building heat resilience in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This week Mayor Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown, Sierra Leone, will appoint a Chief Heat Officer, to protect the well-being of city residents. Kathy Baughman McLeod reports from the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center.
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12th September 2019
Countries primed for fundraising to save forests
The Results-based Reporting for REDD+ project has worked with tropical countries across the world, to improve their data-gathering on forest cover and reporting to the United Nations. This has laid the groundwork for increased funding to protect and restore forest lands. The project couldn't have been more timely - as Matt Gilbert of PwC reports.
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26th November 2018
Progress towards low-emission development in Côte d'Ivoire
Alain Serges Kouadio and Tim Woods report on a major low emission development project that is boosting energy access in Côte d'Ivoire by using many parts of the rice plant to create bioenergy.
