CDKN and Ricardo Energy & Environment team up on NDC guidance CDKN and Ricardo Energy & Environment are now developing a practical guidance for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), building on a previous collaboration - please share your thoughts with us.

Report : The Way Forward in International Climate Policy: Key Issues and New Ideas 2014 A report by Climate Strategies and CDKN, The Way Forward in International Climate Policy: Key Issues and New Ideas 2014, highlights opportunities and new ways of thinking that could move the world towards an ambitious global climate deal and more climate-compatible development.

Ethiopia NDC Highlights Newsletter: September 2020 This NDC highlights newsletter features articles on gender-sensitive climate action and supporting greening and afforestation in Ethiopia.

POLICY BRIEF: A plan to achieve development resilient to climate change in the Caribbean The CARICOM countries have worked together to form an implementation plan to deliver the strategic elements and goals of a regional framework which was developed from an urgent political commitment to manage the effects of climate change on development.

POLICY BRIEF: Planning climate compatible development: lessons from experience National planning for climate compatible development in developing countries means balancing national needs with the requirements of international support frameworks for financing, technology transfer and capacity building.

Bangladesh's Delta Plan 2100 offers major opportunity for climate compatible development Millions of livelihoods in Bangladesh’s vast delta region are at risk from climate change impacts this century: the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 aims to tackle these risks head on and turn them into opportunities for the region’s people. Jubaer Rashid of CDKN Asia describes the multi-institutional effort involved to bring the plan to reality.

Putting local people at the centre of climate change adaptation Drawing from a wide range of case studies, Lucia Scodanibbio provides evidence for why climate change adaptation must be locally-led in order to be effective.

Intersecting realities: Four approaches to making locally-led adaptation more inclusive A recent peer learning session at the Community-Based Adaptation conference (CBA18) in Arusha discussed the question, what does locally-led adaptation look like when intersectionality is intentionally considered part of an intervention? Read the key takeaways from the discussion.

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.

Study can help traffic cops and outdoor workers who are reeling under heat waves Odds are that 2016 is already set to be yet another "hottest year on record". This week Ahmedabad, in Western India, broke a hundred-year record with reported maximum temperatures of 46.9°C (116.4°F).

Sri Lanka's urban agriculture and forestry in pictures A new report from the RUAF Foundation and CDKN looks at the way in which urban agriculture and forestry has been integrated into climate change action plans in the Western Province, Sri Lanka. The below images take us through the journey of Western Province's adaptation plans.