Following Africa's first Wikipedia edit-a-thon on climate change, Katharine Vincent of Kulima Integrated Solutions reflects on why she thinks Wikipedia is a powerful tool for research impact. [more...]
Lisa McNamara of CDKN reports on a pioneering event for African researchers to enhance the quality of climate change information on the world’s largest online encyclopedia. [more...]
The IPCC’s latest Special Report stresses food and nutritional security in the context of land and climate change. Here, Prithviraj Gaikwad and Shreya Banerjee of Watershed Organisation Trust describe ‘multi-layer farming’ – a method for increasing food and nutrition security in the face of climate risks. [more...]
This short film highlights the potential of mini-grids to address the energy challenges in rural Africa, while tackling the global challenge of climate change. [more]…
Almeida Sitoe, Sadie Cox and Tim Woods report on a major low-emissions project that is modelling future development pathways for Mozambique and providing scenarios for the next version of its NDC. [more]…
Maria Carolina Urmeneta Labarca heads the Office of Climate Change in Chile’s Ministry of Environment. Here, she shares her insights into Chile's integrated climate governance, from national to local levels. [more]…
The ‘Cities Footprint’ project, designed and co-financed by the Latin American Development Bank (CAF), CDKN, the Agence Française de Développement and Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano has been named one of the world's most promising initiatives for urban sustainability and for best practice in linking local to global agendas. [more]…
A team of Nigerian electricity experts has travelled to Ghana to better understand how Ghana is scaling up its low carbon mini-grids programme. Charlie Zajicek caught up with Victor Osu, of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Authority, to find out more about this LEDS GP-sponsored exchange. [more]…
Patrick Curran, a policy analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, shares new research on policy coordination across water, energy, food and climate goals in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. [more]…
In a new film released this week, decision-makers from around the world describe how they are creating sustainable jobs and economic growth by embracing low emission development. [more]…
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform has announced a call for papers for their Sixth GGKP Annual Conference on inclusive solutions for the green transition, to be hosted at the OECD headquarters in Paris in November 2018. [more]…
Benjamin Combes and Darius Nassiry explore how emerging and exponential technologies - which characterise the 'fourth industrial revolution' could open new opportunities for low-carbon development. [more]…
LEDS GP has launched its country leadership tool, which allows users to discover how countries are integrating low emission action in their national development. [more]…
