Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop 2016 Register by 2 September for your place at the Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop 2016 in Golden, Colorado! Come to the workshop to work; to share; to think. No powerpoints allowed at this interactive event.

Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance unlocks ideas worth billions Jorge Villanueva and Zabreen Hasan of CDKN talk to Dario Abramskiehn about the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance - which is testing new finance instruments that could unlock billions of dollars.

The Paris Agreement in action - implementing Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) James Harries of Ricardo of Energy & Environment shares his observations as part of a CDKN project to assist the Government of Bangladesh implement its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).

Join CDKN and the Climate Knowledge Brokers at Green Growth Week 2016 Join CDKN and the Climate Knowledge Brokers at the Global Green Growth Week 2016 to talk about 'Linking climate knowledge to green growth' and 'Ten things to know: gender equality and achieving climate goals'.

Mainstreaming climate resilient infrastructure How do we ensure that we are not promoting climate resilient poverty and how do we ensure robust decision-making in planning for and implementing water infrastructure that takes into account climate resilience? These are some of the questions panelists will be discussing at CDKN's official side event at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm.

Coping with heatwaves CDKN is supporting stakeholders to develop a heatwave management plan for Karachi, Pakistan. Syed Muhammad Abubakar, Knowledge Officer for CDKN Asia, highlights how this project will initiate a process at the local level.

Paris to Dhaka Munjurul Hannan Khan, CDKN's country advisor for Bangladesh, Areej Riaz CDKN's country programme manager for Bangladesh and Syed Muhammad Abubakar, CDKN's KN Officer for Asia, shed light on Bangladesh’s preparation and implementation of INDC which will help to make its economic sectors climate resilient, towards a low-carbon economy.

Getting climate finance ready - Experience from Bangladesh and Pakistan In this first of three sets of video presentations from the workshop ‘South-South Learning Exchange on Developing Bankable Climate Projects’, Jorge Villanueva and Zabreen Hasan of CDKN pose questions to climate finance specialists from South Asia: Iftikhar Hossain and Nazmul Haque of Bangladesh and Fawad Hayat of Pakistan.

Lessons for climate compatible development from African agriculture CDKN Africa's Nkulumo Zinyengere shares six lessons from the Regional Climate Smart Agriculture Conference, which he recently attended. He looks at the detailed efforts to advance climate smart agriculture in southern Africa.

What makes a good proposal for the Adaptation Fund? CDKN and its partners have been sharing experiences with each other on how developing countries can become more 'climate finance ready'. As part of this programme, we interviewed Mikko Ollikainen of the Adaptation Fund Secretariat about what he's looking for in a project proposal.

Climate funds face tension between country ownership and pressure to disburse funding Virginie Fayolle, a Senior Economist at Acclimatise, explores some of the tensions between international climate funds' drive to disburse funding and the standards and procedures required of their developing country recipients. This is the first blog from a CDKN learning programme on what makes a 'bankable' climate project.

Saving the vulnerable Syed Muhammad Abubakar of CDKN Asia, highlights CDKN's role in supporting Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority to develop a risk transfer mechanism. This will eventually contribute to developing a National Disaster Insurance Framework in order to help the vulnerable communities better manage natural hazards.