Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

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Piloting climate change adaptation measures in the Metropolitan District of Quito

The project looked to identify, prioritise, develop and implement adaptation measures that help reduce the climate vulnerability of natural and anthropic attributes to the population of the Metropolitan District of Quito

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Subnational climate compatible development: Learning from CDKN’s experience Phase II

Phase II of the Sub-national Learning Programme on climate compatible development presents an excellent opportunity to build on and enhance the learning achieved in the first phase of the CDKN and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) partnership.

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27th April 2015
Transformative climate agendas Jorge Villanueva of CDKN Latin America reports on the three-day Action Lab, held in Ecuador in March 2015, which brought together representatives from different organisations in order to come up with innovative ways to generate integrated climate agendas in the region.
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Gender Hub: Training on Gender Integrated Planning

This project has trained individuals in charge of planning processes in CDKN projects and organizations, to assist them to understand gender issues and address these in the planning process.

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Project : Scaling-up Climate Smart Agriculture In Nepal

Through this project, CDKN aims to strengthen the evidence base on the climate compatible development benefits and viability for large-scale application of climate-smart agricultural practices.

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Supporting the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) process in Pakistan

Under this project, CDKN supported the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan (GoP) in building its capacity to plan and develop its INDC for submission to the UNFCCC.

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12th April 2015
Water shortages send wake-up call to Pakistan A policy dialogue convened by LEAD Pakistan and CDKN with the Government of Pakistan explored how development of the country's water resources could be more 'climate compatible' - and involve some tough challenges for the agriculture sector.
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9th April 2015
More free resources for communicating climate change CDKN presents new resources as part of its ‘media toolkit’ to encourage discussion of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and What's in it for Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Small Island Developing States.
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5th April 2015
The Zambezi: Competing claims and climate change Climate change is increasing the competition for freshwater resources in the Zambezi River Basin, as CDKN's Miren Gutierrez reports.
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1st April 2015
Argentina's urban agriculture and forestry in pictures A report from RUAF and CDKN assesses how urban agriculture and forestry is integrated into climate plans in Rosario, Argentina and the below images take us through the journey of Rosario's new climate change adaptation plans.
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1st April 2015
Sri Lanka's urban agriculture and forestry in pictures A new report from the RUAF Foundation and CDKN looks at the way in which urban agriculture and forestry has been integrated into climate change action plans in the Western Province, Sri Lanka. The below images take us through the journey of Western Province's adaptation plans.
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31st March 2015
Report : Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans For cities to be sustainable, they need to simultaneously mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions and ensure adequate access to basic urban services such as water, food and energy to their growing populations. A new report from CDKN and RUAF Foundation looks at the cases of Sri Lanka and Argentina where urban adaptation plans have achieved numerous benefits.