CDKN launches Climate Finance Advisory Service
The Climate Finance Advisory Service (CFAS) is a platform through which negotiators, policy makers and advisors in the poorest and most climate vulnerable countries can access bespoke information and guidance needed to effectively participate in complex global climate finance negotiations.
Climate smart-agriculture needs an excellent evidence base to access large-scale funding
Elevating climate-smart agriculture to achieve significant international funding on the scale we need will require innovative partnerships that can quantify effective change on the ground, says Dr Natasha Grist, Research Fellow in Climate Smart Agriculture at ODI and Head of Agriculture and Coastal Clusters, CDKN
The potential of micro-insurance for DRR?
Nasreen Rashid, Executive Advisor, EFU Group of Insurance, Pakistan reflects from the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) on the role of micro-insurance in DRR strategies
Feature
13th November 2012
Climate Investment Funds (CIF) entering a new phase
CDKN's Director of Policy and Programmes, Ari Huhtala, reports back from the latest global discussions about the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and reflects on the past, present and future of the CIF.
Feature
13th November 2012
Biological Diversity - a ‘climate’ question?
Bhawana Luthra and Elizabeth Colebourn from LEAD India and CDKN reflect on the link between biodiversity and climate change in the wake of the 11th COP of the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD).
Feature
12th November 2012
Edison lights the way to a low-carbon energy sector
Steve Thorne, energy expert and Director of SouthSouthNorth, casts a critical eye over conventional energy supply and suggests policy makers could learn a lesson from Thomas Edison in how to deliver low-carbon energy services
News
9th November 2012
Low Carbon Economy Index reveals 2°C target is unrealistic
PwC’s latest Low Carbon Economy Index reveals that our current rate of decarbonisation is falling well short of ambitions for avoiding dangerous climate change, as Jonathan Grant, Director, Sustainability & Climate Change at PwC reveals.