Reflecting on Our Common Future Under Climate Change CDKN's Helen Picot and Sam Bickersteth reflect on the pre-COP 21 Science conference held in Paris last week; Our Common Future Under Climate Change.

Economic recovery from Covid-19: Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa Governments seek to return to pre-Covid levels of economic activity, and there is much discussion on how to build back ‘greener’. Lauren Hermanus looks at what is happening to achieve a green Covid recovery, and what is missing from current plans.

How are countries getting ready to implement NDCs? The Global NDC Conference 2019 took place in Berlin, 12-14 June, with the aim of inspiring and enabling policy-makers and practitioners to accelerate NDC implementation and climate ambition. National governments shared experience of how they are preparing to deliver their NDCs. CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports.

Positive proposals to make green growth inclusive CDKN attended the Global Green Growth Week held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, 5-9 September. Here, CDKN's Ari Huhtala and Mairi Dupar report on debates to address poverty eradication and 'grow green'.

Mapping a low-carbon future Leaders of the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) programmes in Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil talk about what really happens when stakeholders get around the table to propose mitigation options.

Is a conference the only way to share CCD knowledge? Elizabeth Colebourn, CDKN and Arif Rahman, LEAD Pakistan, put forward a new approach to Climate Compatible Development (CCD) knowledge management

Enhancing the impact of the community of CBA practitioners CDKN's CEO Sam Bickersteth attended the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum, in Hanoi. Here he talks about what we need to do to ensure growing momentum in CBA is mainstreamed to transformational climate adaptation.

Has India's Supreme Court taken a step towards climate compatible development? Mihir Bhatt, CDKN's Senior Strategic Advisor in India - who heads the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) - reflects on an historic judgement by India's Supreme Court this month in response to the country's severe drought.

Unpacking Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in the National Context of Bangladesh Munjurul Hannan Khan, CDKN’s policy advisor in Bangladesh and Tahmina Hadi from NACOM discuss the need to improve understanding of Loss & Damage in Bangladesh, and the increasing importance and focus on Loss & Damage in global climate negotiations.

Follow Paris Agreement with green investment deals The next step after the Paris Climate Agreement is to turn countries’ national climate commitments into investment deals, says CDKN’s Ari Huhtala. Here, he reports on the latest meeting of the San Giorgio Group: a group of eminent climate finance specialists.

Cartagena’s Plan 4C : Building a competitive and climate compatible future Claudia Martínez Zuleta and Mathieu Lacoste of CDKN Colombia introduce a major development in the climate outlook for Cartagena, Colombia: the city's adaptation plan.

New South Africa study - Access to electricity for all has minimal impacts on the climate Access to modern energy underpins the achievement of virtually every aspect of development from health and education to facilitating the creation of wealth creating productive enterprises.