Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay join to increase resilience of tri-border region The 'Triangle City Cooperation' project - part of the Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America initiative - has not only furnished evidence and solutions to combat climate vulnerability in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It has also catalysed new forms of tri-border cooperation among the countries, to build their collective climate resilience.

E-learning course to support IPCC reviewers There is still time to register - before the 4 June deadline - to take part in a special e-learning course, which is designed to support experts on to become reviewers of the Assessment Reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Proposed innovations could make bio-ethanol cooking fuel widely available in Kenya Yesterday at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, Dalberg Advisors announced the main findings of a study on scaling clean bio-ethanol cooking fuel in Kenya.

New Africa-based leadership of CDKN SouthSouthNorth is delighted to be leading the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) into a new phase and building on the wealth of experience and learning CDKN has accumulated to date - Shehnaaz Moosa, incoming Director.

Climate migration - Governments urged to see the big national picture There’s much governments can do to anticipate climate-related migration within their borders - and help both sending and receiving communities to mitigate climate risks -- say Katherine Shaw and Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, ODI.

PwC hands over CDKN leadership to Africa-based SouthSouthNorth Sam Bickersteth steps down this week after more than seven years as Chief Executive of CDKN, and as PwC hands leadership of the Alliance to South African-based NGO, SouthSouthNorth. He reflects on the Alliance's achievements and legacy.

Kenya’s progress in monitoring, reporting and verifying its climate actions CDKN supported the Government of Kenya to help accelerate progress on planning for NDC implementation, using the NDC Quick-Start Guide. Tom Owino shares results and recommendations from the project.

Politics, poverty and climate change Leo Roberts from the Overseas Development Institute unpacks how Cape Town’s people and politicians are responding to the city’s worst-ever drought and the threat of ‘Day Zero’: when most taps will run dry.

Co-producing climate knowledge - Great in theory, but how about practice? Estelle Rouhaud of the Future Climate for Africa's UMFULA project says that 'co-production' of climate knowledge sounds like a wonderful aspiration, but is far from easy to achieve in practice.

How can climate models be improved over Africa? Investigating global models with local knowledge A recent Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) webinar explored how scientists can deepen their understanding of African climate processes. Dr Rachel James discussed how scientists can improve climate modeling by ground-truthing their data and assumptions better, with local sources of climate knowledge.

Sharing learning on NDC implementation - Lessons from Kampala Last year, CDKN hosted a two-day South-South learning exchange in Kampala, Uganda on the theme of NDC implementation. The event convened government representatives and project managers from Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Bangladesh - all countries that had been piloting the NDC Quick-Start Guide to NDC Implementation, with assistance from Ricardo Energy and Environment. Claire Monkhouse and Emma Baker reflect on the themes.

Tropical forest countries explore the keys to unlocking REDD+ finance In late January, more than 50 forest and climate change experts from around the world gathered in Milan, Italy, to share their progress on measuring the carbon stocks in forests, agriculture and other lands.