The Green Climate Fund - How will it practice what it preaches? Annelieke Douma and Anouk Franck of non-governmental organisation Both ENDS report from last week’s meeting of the Green Climate Fund in Paris.

Building university leadership for climate compatible development in Southern Africa A new CDKN-supported project is mapping the current state of climate compatible development research, teaching and learning within Southern Africa. The study will provide the basis for building a regional scientific knowledge network between Southern African universities to benefit the region’s response to climate change.

Asia’s people believe climate is changing Tan Copsey of BBC Media in Action describes how his organisation’s huge public opinion survey, Climate Asia, has revealed much about Asians’ perceptions of climate change.

Learning lessons from Manatí’s resilient women A project in Colombia is investigating how women were affected by devastating floods in 2010 and 2011. The hope is to pass on knowledge about how they reacted and coped, to help other communities prepare for similar disasters.

Putting their money where their MAPS are Implementing the national low-emissions strategies under development in many developing countries will require governments to think more strategically about how to finance the changes. CDKN’s Carolyn Fry interviews Amal-Lee Amin of E3G, who is advising Latin American governments on financing opportunities.

A changing climate - implications for business Joanna Benn of the European Climate Foundation presents the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in bite-sized chunks for business leaders and policy-makers.

Supporting collaboration between climate knowledge brokers CDKN has played a vital role in creating and developing the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group, a community of practice for organisations working to enable developing countries to access reliable information and data, share lessons and experience on how to tackle climate change.

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CFAS October newsletter, scaling up climate finance - Long Term Finance work programme wrap-up event in Songdo, 10 - 12 September 2013 The Long Term Finance Work Programme organised a “wrap-up session” in Songdo in South Korea from

CFAS October newsletter, 4th meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board in Songdo, 26 - 28 June 2013 From 26th to 28th June, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) convened its 4th meeting, in So

5th Standing Committee on Finance meeting, 27 - 30th August, Bonn The Fifth meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance was held in Bonn, Germany from August 27 t

CFAS Newsletter and Recommended Reading for October 2013 Blog note by Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Boell Foundation US