Out of the estimated 123,000 businesses in Rwanda around 98% are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and around 84% of them are informal. Climate-related hazards impact many of these businesses in rural and urban areas, for example when landslides hot, transport routes are blocked off or when flooding occurs, production processes are disrupted. Support structures for enhancing the resilience of these small and medium sized businesses, are often not within their capacities.

The project will Improve understanding of low-carbon options – identification of priority opportunities for low-carbon development in Pakistan.

This project developed a concept for a supported nationally appropriate mitigation action (NAMA) for small and medium scale (1-10 MWe) renewable energy initiatives in Indonesia on a national and province level, with two pilot provinces. The concept was developed by The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), government partners and local experts.

CDKN, under this project, provided a central and common approach to describe and track energy mitigation actions and also improved the evidence available for comparing and describing mitigation actions.

Mass media plays a critical role in shaping public opinion, and is indispensable in reaching out to the public. This CDKN project aims to support African journalists in covering climate change related stories and the position of the African Group of Negotiators.

This project is designed to support Bangladesh in developing its evidence base to map out a business as usual scenario, helping the government identify its needs on ‘intended nationally determined contributions’ (INDCs) which will shape its mitigation scenarios. This will finally result in a comprehensive INDC submission to the UNFCCC by the Government of Bangladesh.

CDKN is supporting the Regional Centre on Climate Change and Decision-Making to strengthen its impact in the region and by a conveyor for science and policy on climate change.

The INDC provides an opportunity for examining and enhancing such approaches toward a climate compatible development transition in India.

The project will provide updated technical requirements for building the resilience of small and medium scale irrigation systems to the impacts of climate change and extreme events, and improve their effectiveness and efficiency through evidence.

The study of the Political Economy of long-lived decisions in Africa will provide a focused analysis that will allow the Future Climate For Africa programme to leverage the research impact of the RPCs through advisory support.

The Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP) was launched in September 2012, with financial support from CDKN, the European Climate Foundation, and the Global Green Growth Institute, to assess effective green growth practices at all levels of government and all regions of the world.

This project sought to develop the first plan of climate change and green growth in Colombia, focusing on Eastern Antioquia.