Legal community to bolster Paris Agreement implementation The CDKN team reports on how the legal community is mobilising to ensure that the ambitious Paris climate agreement gets translated to into action.

'Planning for NDC implementation The Paris Agreement enters into force on 4 November 2016, and now all eyes turn to implementing the national climate commitments: the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Responding to this challenge, CDKN and Ricardo Energy & Environment have developed a ‘Quick-Start Guide’ to support planning for NDC implementation.

Major milestone reached for Paris Agreement – now it is time for real action Sam Bickersteth, CDKN's Chief Executive, responds to the news that enough countries have ratified the Paris Agreement for it to enter into force on 4 November.

Where climate change and three canals meet in Gurgaon, India Researchers Vishal Narain and Aditya Kumar Singh describe how residents of Gurgaon, India struggle to access and manage water in a changing climate.

Uganda Action Lab - developing climate smart value chains in the dairy and livestock sectors What would climate smart dairy and livestock value chains look like in Uganda? A recent action lab looked at ideas to enhance climate change outcomes for the east African country.

Low-Carbon Microgrids are a viable business opportunity says new report Mariana Heinrich of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) describes how Low-Carbon Microgrids have become economically viable and how private companies are poised to roll them out across diverse country contexts.

Study sets the bar for scientific capacity-building initiatives in Africa A research team led by Leigh Cobban and Mark New of the African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town (UCT) has released a Future Climate for Africa brief: Barriers and opportunities for scientific capacity development on climate change in Africa.

Climate change - A new market for Bangladeshi businesses Private banks and financial institutions in Bangladesh requested CDKN’s support to build their capacity and understanding of climate finance mechanisms. Will Bugler and Yousuf Mahid say Bangladesh could lead the world by showing how to engage the private sector effectively and ensure that businesses are squarely involved in the country’s adaptation process.

Extended deadline for abstracts - Climate change interventions as a source of conflict Now extended: call for abstracts for the conference 'Climate change interventions as a source of conflict, competing claims and new mobilities: Increasing the resilience of communities and cities in the South' until 2 October. The conference takes place 24-25 November in Utrecht, Netherlands.

1.5 degrees target creates a challenge for human ingenuity Scientists gathered in Oxford to debate how world society could hold global temperature rise as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible and meet the challenge of the Paris climate agreement - CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports.

Conflict around water infrastructure in Bangladesh’s changing climate Jannatul Naima Moon shares the findings of an action research project on “Climate Policy, Conflicts and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Towards Resilient and Water Secure Communities” which is co-funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in collaboration with Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Positive proposals to make green growth inclusive CDKN attended the Global Green Growth Week held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, 5-9 September. Here, CDKN's Ari Huhtala and Mairi Dupar report on debates to address poverty eradication and 'grow green'.