POLICY BRIEF: Using climate information to achieve long-term development objectives in Zambia Zambia's climate is bound to change in the coming decades - as climate change takes hold globally. How should policy-makers and investors take these climate risks into account? That’s the subject of a new policy brief from the Future Climate for Africa programme and CDKN.

POLICY BRIEF: Using climate information for large-scale hydropower planning in sub-Saharan Africa How could Africa’s changing climate affect the performance of large dams, decades from now? And what should policy-makers and investors be doing about it? That's the subject of a new policy brief from the Future Climate for Africa programme and CDKN.

Financing readiness: insights from the Amazon Fund and Congo Basin Forest Funds' efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation Financing readiness: insights from the Amazon Fund and Congo Basin Forest Funds' efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation

REPORT: Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows 2014 This guide provides climate change negotiators with a synopsis of the key elements in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s Biennial Assessment of climate finance flows.

INSIDE STORY: Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to accelerate geothermal power: Lessons from Kenya The Government of Kenya has ambitions to significantly expand its power supply from geothermal sources to underpin low-carbon, climate resilient development.

REPORT: The Status of Climate Finance at COP20, Lima A new briefing by the Climate Finance Advisory Service (CFAS) highlights the key climate finance issues on the agenda of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) at their meeting in Lima, Peru in December 2014.

WORKING PAPER: Equity and inclusion in disaster risk reduction: building resilience for all This CDKN working paper analyses the zero draft of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and attempts to address some of its shortcomings to move the debate beyond the simplistic focus of including vulnerable groups within DRR policy-making.

What's in it for Latin America This report, What’s in it for Latin America? presents key recommendations from the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, extracting Latin America-specific data, trends and analysis directly from report, summarising it in a short volume to make it accessible to all audiences.

Outlook : Special Edition on African climate science The Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme aims to improve the use of climate science in Africa - what has the team learned so far? This Special Edition of 'Climate and Development Outlook' on African climate science shares some early lessons.

Africa’s urban land markets: piecing together an economic puzzle Africa’s urban land markets: piecing together an economic puzzle

Governance of urban land markets in Zimbabwe Governance of urban land markets in Zimbabwe

FILM: Low emissions development - your chance to spread the word CDKN Latin America has released a new animation showing the benefits of low emissions development for societies. The film shows how global warming, caused largely by the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, has increased. Average temperatures are rising very quickly and this is impacting ecosystems, health, water and energy, particularly in developing countries, which are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.