Tailoring a Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programme for the African continent Gracia Munganga looks at energy policy and emissions pathways in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda and Zambia, and the potential for a ‘MAPS approach’ to development and mitigation on the African continent in the light of recent research.

Planning Commission sets priority actions for Pakistan's climate compatible development Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN, reports from Pakistan on the approval by the Planning Commission of CDKN-supported work programme for mitigation and adaptation to the impacts of climate change

Local voices from the global South: Community action at the centre of resilient water solutions The UN 2023 Water Conference took place from 22-24 March 2023 in New York and online. CDKN co-hosted a virtual side event with Fundación Avina to bring local voices from the global South to the fore in communicating water solutions to reduce climate change vulnerabilities.

With temperatures rising, major Indian city moves closer to releasing life-saving heat action plan Anjali Jaiswal and Meredith Connolly tell us how the Ahmedabad government is taking steps to protect its 7 million residents with a new Heat Action Plan.

Inside story : Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Sri Lanka This CDKN Inside Story illustrates how Sri Lanka's Western Province is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods.

Costa Rica takes the long view on climate action – and bold steps now Costa Rica’s road to decarbonisation is paved with political vision and painstaking planning – according to Andrea Meza, the country’s Director of Climate Change.

Financing resilience - Global to local actions can work in step to help the poorest Mairi Dupar reports on a pressing issue for delegates at the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco last week: how to raise more finance to support the world's poorest people adapt to the effects of climate change.

Lima event inspires cross-generational action for zero poverty, zero emissions Participants from all generations participated in a unique and highly ambitious set of debates in Lima, Peru this weekend on 'zero poverty, zero emissions'.

Africa’s climate change networks debate how to mobilise knowledge for climate action At a meeting of Africa’s climate change knowledge brokers, delegates sought answers to three big questions in the quest to make their networks function effectively. Lisa McNamara of CDKN Africa reports

Can small-scale adaptation actions address the food crisis in the Horn of Africa? Dr. Richard Munang argues that in the Horn of Africa, large-scale commercial agriculture will fail to pull countries out of a cycle of food crises. The only way to break the cycle is to adopt small-scale farming methods that nurture ecosystem services.

Opportunité : Appel à notes conceptuelles - De la connaissance à l'action résiliente au climat dans les pays africains Le CDKN a le plaisir de vous informer du lancement d’un appel à notes conceptuelles, dans le cadre de la nouvelle phase de son programme. Cet appel axée sur le thème “Des connaissances à l'action résiliente au climat.

Game-changing report finds that climate action will avert millions of air pollution deaths The COP Special Report on Health and Climate Change has turned the economics of climate change on its head and exposed an environmental outrage on a planetary scale. Mairi Dupar reports from Katowice, Poland.