COP18 - Join CDKN side events in Doha Please join us in person, or follow our events on our website and Twitter as CoP18 unfolds. CDKN will be supporting and participating in several events – we’d love to see you there, or at our display stand in the official exhibition area.

Communities need greater support to cope with loss and damage from climate shifts CDKN’s Kashmala Kakakhel reports from CoP 18 in Doha on five new case studies that show how climate change is affecting communities’ lives in Kenya, the Gambia, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Micronesia.

Join our live online debate on loss and damage from climate change Join the live online debate - Paying the price: Who will pay the costs of losses and damage from climate impacts? Taking place on today from 12:00-13:00 GMT

UN talks must lay path to new climate deal Megan Rowling from Alertnet climate talks to CDKN and other organisations about their hopes and fears for COP18 in Doha

Orientating Nepal's Core UNFCCC Negotiation Team Dr. Tara Nidhi Bhattarai, Programme Facilitator for IDS-Nepal, reports from an Orientation Programme on Climate Negotiation held by the Government of Nepal.

Climate smart-agriculture needs an excellent evidence base to access large-scale funding Elevating climate-smart agriculture to achieve significant international funding on the scale we need will require innovative partnerships that can quantify effective change on the ground, says Dr Natasha Grist, Research Fellow in Climate Smart Agriculture at ODI and Head of Agriculture and Coastal Clusters, CDKN

Loss and damage from climate change – will leaders respond to this present danger? Kashmala Kakakhel, LEAD Pakistan, and Tom Mitchell and Emily Wilkinson, Overseas Development Institute explain key points emerging from recent consultations on Loss and Damage and what impact this is likely to have upon negotiations in Doha.

The potential of micro-insurance for DRR? Nasreen Rashid, Executive Advisor, EFU Group of Insurance, Pakistan reflects from the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) on the role of micro-insurance in DRR strategies

Climate Investment Funds (CIF) entering a new phase CDKN's Director of Policy and Programmes, Ari Huhtala, reports back from the latest global discussions about the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and reflects on the past, present and future of the CIF.

Biological Diversity - a ‘climate’ question? Bhawana Luthra and Elizabeth Colebourn from LEAD India and CDKN reflect on the link between biodiversity and climate change in the wake of the 11th COP of the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD).

Edison lights the way to a low-carbon energy sector Steve Thorne, energy expert and Director of SouthSouthNorth, casts a critical eye over conventional energy supply and suggests policy makers could learn a lesson from Thomas Edison in how to deliver low-carbon energy services

Low Carbon Economy Index reveals 2°C target is unrealistic PwC’s latest Low Carbon Economy Index reveals that our current rate of decarbonisation is falling well short of ambitions for avoiding dangerous climate change, as Jonathan Grant, Director, Sustainability & Climate Change at PwC reveals.