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...]
Part 2: The Future of Climate Compatible Development Transcript: Simon Maxwell: We’ve defined our niche rather in terms of subject matter. We’re quite clear that our programme is not just about climate, [more]…
Part 1: Climate change, a global challenge Transcript: Simon Maxwell: Saleem thank you so much for coming in it’s a great pleasure to see you. You’ve been running the climate change programme [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell, CDKN Chair: Saleem thank you so much for coming in. It’s a great pleasure to see you. Bangladesh has stood on the edge of the precipice if you [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell: Ali you’re running the technical assistance and advisory function for the Climate and Development Knowledge work. Now of course we’re not in business to take UK expertise and [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell: Tim you’re the Director of Operations of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, running a global operation with activities in three continents plus Europe because we’re based in [more]…
By Simon Maxwell, CDKN Chair Climate research and policy make extensive use of two concepts, ‘mitigation' and ‘adaptation'. And while these are a helpful starting point, a broader focus on 'climate [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell: Natasha you’re leading the research programme in the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and you’re a researcher yourself, so you know about why it’s important for research to [more]…
The power of the pen - Enrique Mendizabal From the simplest solutions to more complex theories - over the course of this summer, different members of the CDKN team have explored [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell: Alex you’re head of the Partnerships programme of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network. I can see that some of our partners could be governments, some could be [more]…
Transcript Simon Maxwell: Geoff you’re running the knowledge management stream of work in the climate and development knowledge network, surprising in a way that in a world of the Internet and [more]…
