Green Climate Fund Board sets itself on even keel for 2016 decisions The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) latest Board meeting took place in Songdo, South Korea, from 8-10 March 2016. CDKN's Christina Elvers observed the proceedings.

Clean energy without currency risk Harald Hirschhofer of TCX says that foreign exchange risks have caused a hurdle to rolling out renewable energy technologies in some countries. But now development finance institutions are helping firms manage the risk and expand their operations.

Da Nang - A rising star, menaced by extreme rainfall Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major port cities. Miren Gutierrez uncovers the measures taken by a CDKN project to protect the city's residents from worsening rainfall in a changing climate.

After Paris - "About money and determination", a view from Mihir Bhatt, India Three months after the Paris climate deal was struck, Mihir Bhatt, CDKN´s country leader for India, who leads the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), talks to CDKN's Miren Gutierrez about the next steps needed to implement India's climate commitments.

Justice in the climate negotiations - and in the real world Ari Huhtala argues that there is considerable potential to assess countries' global and national performance on climate action - through an equity lens.

Water, food and energy security trade-offs in Amazonia The Amazonian region faces some tough trade-offs about the way natural resources are used, and climate change is only creating more pressure, say David Sabogal and Helen Bellfield of Global Canopy Programme.

After Paris: Perspective from Ram Chandra Khanal, Nepal “How are the most affected people going to benefit from this deal?” asks Ram Chandra Khanal, CDKN’s Nepal Strategy Advisor, of the Paris climate deal. Here, Miren Gutierrez interviews Mr Khanal on the implications of COP21.

Development experts recognise rising importance of climate change At PwC’s annual International Development Conference in London, development experts agreed that the Paris climate conference was a game changer – making it more likely that climate measures will be integrated in development plans. Heather Lynch reports.

Training primed Ethiopian climate negotiators for COP21 In the run up to the Paris climate conference (COP21), the Government of Ethiopia invited CDKN and Ricardo Energy & Environment to provide advanced training to their negotiators. How do you train people to be skilled climate negotiators? And how did this training work out? Katherine Cooke reports.

What if gender became an essential, standard element of vulnerability assessments? Hosted by Oxfam, this webinar will draw on experiences from development practitioners and consider what we have learnt on the importance of integrating gender issues into Vulnerability Assessments.

Delivering Nationally Determined Contributions - An opportunity for gender mainstreaming On International Women’s Day, Ricardo Energy & Environment’s Outi Korkeala, Nidhi Mittal and Nipunika Perera review the ways in which gender issues can be factored into implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions.

The gender and climate change debate – Equal rights or uniform roles? In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8th March, Mehrunisa Malik, Learning and Knowledge Networks Associate for CDKN Asia, argues that a more sophisticated analysis is needed of women’s roles and influences in different cultures. Only then can women and men contribute fully to climate compatible development where they live.