Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration: integrating global climate information and regional adaptation portals

This joint initiative between three knowledge brokers aims to advance the user demand-driven development, refinement and cross-linking between weADAPT, the Climate Information Portal (CIP) and AfricaAdapt.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Linking stakeholders to integrated climate change data

This project focuses on two priorities: integrating heterogeneous and globally distributed information sources, and tailoring data into relevant content that can be communicated in a way that allows stakeholders to find sector-specific knowledge.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - addressing the climate change knowledge gap through user-group analysis

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), together with partner knowledge networks, are trying to address the climate change knowledge gap through an in-depth analysis of how different user groups of climate knowledge broker services assess, access and apply knowledge from these services.

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Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Automated tagging tool to make finding climate compatible information easier

The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and reegle, a unique clean energy information portal, are working with three partners (weADAPT, Eldis and OpenEI) on a project that aims to drastically improve the efficiency of tagging and categorizing clean energy documents with a new user interface.

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8th May 2012
the lessons of the IPCC SREX report for South Asia CDKN's Elizabeth Colebourn and Amy Kirbyshire report back from the New Delhi, India outreach event where diverse stakeholders discussed the IPCC's SREX report.
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2nd May 2012
Caribbean communities are finding practical climate change solutions The impacts of climate change are measurable and present. But how 'real' is climate change to daily life in the Caribbean?
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27th April 2012
The more information, the better the adaptation Analysis of the relationship between climate change and poverty reduction policies in Peru
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26th April 2012
The Livelihoods Centred Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction - Lessons from Matebeleland South, Zimbabwe The Livelihoods Centred Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction - Lessons from Matebeleland South, Zimbabwe
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25th April 2012
Enhancing the impact of the community of CBA practitioners CDKN's CEO Sam Bickersteth attended the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum, in Hanoi. Here he talks about what we need to do to ensure growing momentum in CBA is mainstreamed to transformational climate adaptation.
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25th April 2012
Vulnerable communities lead the way on adaptation What advances in understanding should we glean from the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum in Vietnam? Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Climate Change Fellow at IIED, discusses the outcomes.
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23rd April 2012
Planting the seeds for agriculture in a changing climate Helen Baker, Global and Africa Technical Assistance Coordinator, explores the background to a ground-breaking report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, and how it will impact on future planning for food security and sustainable agriculture.
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18th April 2012
Postcards from Planet Under Pressure The ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference was billed as the world’s ‘largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the UN Rio+20 Summit’. CDKN staff members, Mairi Dupar, Naomi Oates and Franziska Schwarz blog on what they found out.