Are we integrating climate adaptation practices in disaster risk reduction? A review of global experience by Mott Macdonald, sponsored by CDKN, looks at how climate change adaptation is being integrated into disaster risk reduction - and how such principles could strengthen post-flood reconstruction in Pakistan.

New briefing paper - 'The Green Climate Fund: options for mobilizing the private sector' CDKN has funded a new briefing paper, developed by Katherine Sierra, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. It outlines options for how the private sector could be mobilised to support the Green Climate Fund.

INSIDE STORY: Climate compatible development at the regional level in Mexico - The Yucatan Peninsula Accord This Inside Story looks at the Yucatan Peninsula Accord, which is one of the first regional climate accord at the sub-national level in Mexico.

INSIDE STORY: From vulnerability to resilience - farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in Niger Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration brings increased crop yields, income and food security to impoverished rural communities in Niger. It also holds climate change mitigation potential.

INSIDE STORY: Working together for REDD+ - developing a national readiness strategy in Tanzania This Inside Story discusses the establishment of Tanzania's National Taskforce which aims to develop a National Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) Strategy by December 2012.

INSIDE STORY: How China built the world’s largest wind power market The story of the Chinese wind power industry is remarkable. From a small number of demonstration projects at the beginning of the century, the Chinese wind power market has grown to become the world’s largest.

INSIDE STORY: Transforming India into a solar power India has launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to address its intertwined challenges of energy security and climate change.

INSIDE STORY: Bangladesh’s comprehensive disaster management programme This policy brief illustrates how Bangladesh has developed a comprehensive disaster management programme.

INSIDE STORY: The case for Evergreen Agriculture in Africa - Enhancing food security with climate change adaptation and mitigation in Zambia This Inside Story looks at how evergreen agriculture combines agro-forestry with the principles of conservation farming by integrating particular tree species into annual food crop systems.

CDKN in conversation with...Rene Orellana, Head of the Bolivian Delegation at CoP-17 Bolivia at the climate change negotiations in Durban – Rene Orellana, Head of Delegation, talks about the priority outcomes Bolivia expects from the Conference in Durban, and presents some initiatives that the country is bringing to CoP-17.

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.

Food security links us all Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, writes about the global challenge facing food security and agriculture.