Look beyond hotspots to help people tackle climate change Targeting money only at areas hit by drought and other climate extremes in an effort to build resilience among the world’s poorest may be ineffective, according to researchers. Laurie Goering of Thomson Reuters reports.

Call for applications - Kenya Climate Innovation Prize Enter a climate innovation competition sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development to make climate information more useful for Kenya's low income communities. The deadline for entries is 7 February 2016.

Simon Maxwell - Is climate compatible development a 'pathway' or 'pipe dream'? “Climate Compatible Development: Pathway or Pipedream?” That was the question posed by Simon Maxwell, CDKN's Executive Chair, in the Centre for Policy Dialogue's (CPD) Annual Lecture in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Watch the lecture and view the slides here.

El Niño Announcement of opportunity Proposals are invited for a new £4m collaborative research programme on Understanding the Impacts of the Current El Niño Event funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and NERC.

Cartagena: Thriving in the face of climate change A CDKN-commissioned film highlights how Cartagena’s communities, public and private leaders understand the challenge of developing Cartagena to deal with the current and future impacts of climate change. See Cartagena from a bird's eye, and ground-level view as never before.

Prestigious media prize for CDKN-supported journalist Arison Tamfu of Cameroon is awarded the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for his reporting on the potential of renewable energy technologies in Africa. For the past year, he has been working with CDKN to cover important climate change issues in the region.

The politics of integrated planning for water, energy and food in Kenya Making decisions over water, energy and food issues in a changing climate can open opportunities for integrated thinking – and raise tensions among different interest groups. How does it work in Kenya? Barbara Schreiner of Pegasys presents initial results from her team's research.

Taking stock of COP21, looking forward to 2016 CDKN's Chief Executive Sam Bickersteth provides his retrospective of COP21 and outlook for 2016.

Climate finance options for cities Lisa Junghans, Policy Advisor - Climate Change, Adaptation and Urban Transformation at Germanwatch introduces a recent CDKN-supported publication on financing climate compatible development in cities.

Post-Paris and 2016 outlook for the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP) A panel of developing country experts will share their reflections on the Paris outcome and what it means for low-emission development strategies. We will outline the work plan of the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP) for the coming year and invite your feedback.

What opportunities do private investors see in low emission development? Ron Benioff asked Kyung-ah Park of the Environmental Markets Group of Goldman Sachs how the global investment community is engaging with low emission opportunities. Ms Park outlined Goldman's $150 billion clean energy commitment - and shared her optimistic outlook.

From teachers to energy executives - IPCC toolkit captures imaginations In 2014-15, CDKN created a communications toolkit to help people share the findings of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report widely in developing countries. Here, Anna Hickman reviews how communicators and educators used the toolkit in the past year.