Expert meeting on assessing the risk of loss and damage CDKN's Kashmala Kakakhel outlines the significance of this week's UNFCCC expert meeting on loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, in Tokyo, Japan.

Project on agriculture, vulnerability and adaptation in Colombia achieves agreement among experts CDKN funded project in the Cauca Region held its fourth workshop to identify climate variables and indices to use for vulnerability analysis. Nationwide invitation involved Colombia’s most outstanding specialists and researchers.

No ‘cookie cutters’ - we’ll do LEDS our own way CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports from the LEDS Global Partnership meeting where members are celebrating the diversity of low emissions development approaches.

Industrial energy efficiency - scoring a hat trick Nicola Cantore from ODI gives us a sneak preview of the upcoming UNIDO report to be released on Tuesday: 'Industrial energy efficiency for sustainable wealth creation.'

Credible knowledge base is at the heart of low emissions development CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports from this week's meeting of developing country decision-makers, donor programmes and technical institutions at the LEDS Global Partnership.

On the frontline of climate change - cocoa, coffee and culture in Colombia At the Planet Under Pressure conference, Claudia Martinez, Colombia Country Leader for CDKN, will brief the media on the threats from increased flooding and sea level rise to Colombia's coffee, cocoa and sugar industries and the world-famous cultural heritage of the city of Cartagena.

Leading researchers and government officials analyse poverty and climate change links in Peru CDKN and Group Analysis for Development (GRADE), with the support of IIED, are organizing the seminar "Analysis of the relationship between climate change and policies to reduce poverty", to take place in Peru on 22 March.

Accelerating the global transition to clean energy Emily Miller reports on the work of the newly created Clean Energy Solutions Center, which is working with policy-makers in South Africa and Indonesia to turn clean energy visions into action.

Preparing for disasters to come In this blog, Zafar Iqbal Qadir, Chairman of the Government of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority describes the national, regional and local measure being put in place to mitigate against future disaster risks.

Scaling the heights to raise awareness of climate compatible development A series of blogs will be reporting from a four month trek along the Great Himalaya Trail in Nepal, led by the world record holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa and in partnership with the Government of Nepal, which is raising awareness of climate compatible development in this highly vulnerable region.

February newsletter - Innovations in climate compatible development Climate and development outlook newsletter

Changing climate, changing disasters - pathways to integration What if climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk management (DRM) and development had a Rosetta stone that enabled them to integrate their thinking and actions? Patricia Curmi blogs about a new tool from the Strengthening Climate Resilience Forum.