In Kurigram district of Bangladesh, a women-headed, community-based organisation is training rural women and extending support to deal with Covid-19 and monsoon floods. Md Fahad Hossain reports. This is the 35th story from the Voices from the Frontline series by ICCCAD and CDKN. [more...]
In Uganda, young people are acquiring skills and tapping into new opportunities to fight against the global pandemic collectively. Godliver Businge reports. This is the 34th story in the Voices from the Frontline series by ICCCAD and CDKN. [more...]
Wondwossen Sintayehu and Charlotte Scott describe how the City of Addis Ababa is considering the use of electric buses in a bid to reduce air pollution overall. Such a development would reduce particulate pollution, which is harmful to local people's health, as well as reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. [more...]
The beauty of the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancún may have been one reason for choosing it to host the upcoming global summit on climate change. But Cancún has little to recommend it as a model for adapting to the challenges posed by clim... [more]…
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has announced that Sam Bickersteth will be its new Chief Executive. He will take up the position in early January. [more]…
The floods that affected 20 million people in Pakistan and the devastating six-week heat wave in Russia in recent months are tragic climate events -- and they're closely linked. [more]…
It may not be easy to imagine Japan as a jolly green giant, but to several Asian countries that have been enjoying environmental projects funded by Japanese aid, that's what this nation has resembled in the last two decades. [more]…
Malawi has directed local government officials to develop local response strategies to the effects of climate change. [more]…
Simon Maxwell, CDKN Chair, reports back from a recent conference at Chatham House on the future of climate change. [more]…
This month in the first of a series of articles commissioned by CDKN for publication, Mitch Moxley from IPS explores China's great green wall, a major reforestation programme in the [more]…
Saleemul Huq, Research Fellow at IIED, explains why he thinks we've reached a tipping point for tackling climate change in developing countries. [more]…
2010 will go down in history as a year of extreme weather conditions, set against the backdrop of climate change. Whether it has been record-breaking temperatures or devastating floods, several [more]…
Part 3: Bangladesh, the iconic country for climate change Transcript: Simon Maxwell: We’re interested in the question of what Bangladesh might look like by 2030, say if there were no climate change [more]…
