Global Resilience Partnership launches innovation challenge The Global Resilience Partnership and USAID have joined forces with KPMG to launch an innovation challenge - designed to identify and nurture novel examples of resilience in Africa and Asia.

Water: How to mobilise enough action on this crux adaptation issue? Climate finance provides a major opportunity to invest in more resilient water systems. However, climate financiers need a more holistic view of water management than they have demonstrated so far. Partnership with experienced water sector professionals in countries could provide the missing piece of the puzzle.

Livestock at risk in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands Research by the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project is changing how Kenyan decision-makers think about and approach their support for pastoralist agriculture. Robina Abuya and colleagues explain.

Weather Chasers of Malawi care for communities - and the climate Katharine Vincent describes how a dedicated group of Malawian citizens began by communicating weather forecasts to communities -- and then broadened its mission to plant trees and actively restore the environment.

Partnership with parliamentarians enriches Pakistan’s climate and development debate A major research project has tailored climate change information for the use of parliamentarians in Pakistan – enabling them to apply new knowledge to some of the country’s pressing social and environmental challenges. Samavia Batool and Abid Suleri report.

How climate researchers and businesses began speaking the same language: A case from Senegal Researchers from the action-research project, PRISE, describe how new knowledge partnerships are making development more environmentally and economically sustainable in Senegal.

Climate action in Chile: Towards multi-level governance With ecosystems that range from the world’s driest desert to the ice fields of Patagonia, Chile is truly a climate laboratory: one that faces a multitude of threats across its 16 diverse regions. The country has high ambitions for climate action - multi-level governance systems will help Chile achieve its goals.

Countries must follow technical achievement of COP24 by stepping up ambition Delegates to COP24 in Katowice, Poland closed the conference on Saturday with a considerable achievement: they signed off an almost-complete ‘rulebook’ – or set of guidelines – for implementing the Paris Agreement.

Game-changing report finds that climate action will avert millions of air pollution deaths The COP Special Report on Health and Climate Change has turned the economics of climate change on its head and exposed an environmental outrage on a planetary scale. Mairi Dupar reports from Katowice, Poland.

East African climate services connect with local communities Met departments and others are strengthening climate services in East Africa and it is having a positive impact on development, reports Bill Leathes of the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological service.

Modelling Mozambique's low-emissions future Almeida Sitoe, Sadie Cox and Tim Woods report on a major low-emissions project that is modelling future development pathways for Mozambique and providing scenarios for the next version of its NDC.

Chile's Framework Law on Climate Change: In conversation with Carolina Urmeneta Maria Carolina Urmeneta Labarca heads the Office of Climate Change in Chile’s Ministry of Environment. Here, she shares her insights into Chile's integrated climate governance, from national to local levels.