Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Feature
20th December 2012
Empowering communities to monitor the impact of their work Saleemul Haq reflects on how a programme supported by CDKN in Bangladesh is spreading an innovative new bottom-up approach to monitoring and evaluating community based adaptation
Feature
19th December 2012
Forecasts benefit farmers at risk from weather extremes Richard Ewbank, Climate Advisor to Christian Aid, reports on an initiative in Kenya that is helping farmers finely tune their cropping decisions to seasonal weather variations
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Adaptation plan for Cartagena de Indias and its islands

The project aims to develop an Action Plan for Cartagena de Indias to adapt to climate change. This includes an analysis of vulnerabilities and guidelines for adaptation for island territories, with the goal of strengthening competitiveness and sectorial development in the city and in the surrounding islands.

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Amazon Security Agenda

The Amazon Security Agenda project was led by the Global Canopy Programme and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, with funding from CDKN.

Resource
6th December 2012
Africa Adaptation Programme knowledge management needs survey report 2012 Africa Adaptation Programme knowledge management needs survey report 2012
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Adaptation policy options and interventions for climate change induced displaced people of Bangladesh

Over the last decade a new term has entered the lexicon of policy makers and the media: climate change refugees or climate change induced forced displacement. The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR1) in 1990 noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human displacement and migration.

Event
4th December 2012
Join the Government of Nepal for COP18 side-event on Mountains As part of a CDKN project, the Government of Nepal is hosting a COP18 side-event on the topic of mainstreaming mountains within the climate negotiations.
Feature
2nd December 2012
Could bean-trading in Doha create a breakthrough? Mairi Dupar reports on an innovative approach to change that is taking place in Doha this weekend.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Planning for Climate Change (PlanCC) - Phase I

A research team has been set up to generate scientific information on possible options and GHG mitigation scenarios for Peru with representatives from the following sectors: agriculture, energy, forestry, industrial processes, transport, waste and a macro-economic team.

Resource
27th November 2012
Inside Story : Analysing vulnerability: a multi-dimensional approach from Colombia’s Upper Cauca River Basin Colombia’s Upper Cauca River Basin has taken a new approach to vulnerability assessment. This brief provides an overview of the project as well as key considerations for vulnerability analyses that are inclusive, integrated and sensitive to social and political complexities.
Resource
20th November 2012
SREX: Lessons for Asia This brief, SREX: Lessons for Asia, summarises the key findings of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) relevant to Asia.
Feature
20th November 2012
Climate smart-agriculture needs an excellent evidence base to access large-scale funding Elevating climate-smart agriculture to achieve significant international funding on the scale we need will require innovative partnerships that can quantify effective change on the ground, says Dr Natasha Grist, Research Fellow in Climate Smart Agriculture at ODI and Head of Agriculture and Coastal Clusters, CDKN