Africa expresses concerns over $100 billion climate fund
The African Group at the UN Climate change talks in Lima is concerned that the Green Climate fund pledge is far below expectations, affirming that the figure can only be considered a baseline for climate action.
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11th July 2013
Strike first, before the next climate disaster
Disaster galvanises action. Floods, cyclones, droughts jolt leaders into planning for future extreme weather events. What we need is the same flurry, but before the fact, says CDKN's Mairi Dupar.
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13th December 2012
Doha talks highlight loss and damage - and leave much work ahead
Sam Bickersteth, Mairi Dupar and Dan Hamza-Goodacre of CDKN provide an overview of UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, and the work remaining to be done to achieve ambitious, global action on climate change.
The project builds on an EU-funded project currently underway which aims to strengthen the ability of Climate Actions Network South Asia (CANSA) to operate as an effective broker, through capacity-building sessions and grants for research projects. The CDKN initiative will strengthen CANSA’s ability to interact with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
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12th October 2011
Are donors blind to the ‘missing link’ in DRR?
Practical Action, a UK-based NGO that helps poor people transform their lives through technology, calls for greater awareness of meso-level government as the 'missing link' in disaster risk reduction strategies.
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6th August 2012
How to put ‘learning’ at the heart of policy implementation
Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) and Hagler Bailly Pakistan (HBP) discuss how a CDKN project in Pakistan is using a process of stakeholder engagement and ‘learning’ to turn the National Climate Change Policy into action.
News
28th April 2017
Beat the Heat
CDKN launches a new film that tells the story of how heat action plans are saving lives and reducing ill health in India's cities - and how the promising and practical approaches are being adopted by other Indian cities.
Ecosystem-based adaptation is listed in the Durban Adaptation Charter as a priority action for local and sub-national governments. This project brings together urban practitioners, policy makers and the scientific community/leading thinkers to draft a “framework” for smart decision-making criteria around Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and ecosystems management for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
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5th May 2015
Poverty and climate change - how to close a deal in 2015
Simon Maxwell, CDKN's Executive Chair, proposes ten actions for governments to ensure that the SDGs and related financing talks and global climate negotiations in 2015 lead to strong positive outcomes on protecting the environment and ending poverty.
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8th October 2018
Three key private finance initiatives for financing a 1.5°C degree target
Kamleshan Pillay, CDKN’s Climate Finance Lead, outlines three potentially game-changing initiatives to enhance private finance of climate action, in response to the release of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C.<
Making power generation resilient to climate change
As nations meeting in Bonn conclude talks on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, the time is right to examine how power generation can be not only low-carbon, but also climate-resilient. Frauke Urban reports.
