FILM: Clean, reliable power for Africa: The potential for mini-grids
This short film highlights the potential of mini-grids to address the energy challenges in rural Africa, while tackling the global challenge of climate change. [more...]
Climate change mitigation
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OPINION: 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. [more...]
NEWS: 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. [more...]
FEATURE: 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. [more...]
CDKN Resources
REPORT: Results-based reporting for REDD+
The Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN) and CDKN present their joint initiative: the Reporting for Results-based REDD+ project, a three-year project to build capacity for measuring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and enhancement of carbon stocks in agriculture, forest and other land use in 21 tropical and subtropical forest countries. [more]…
WORKING PAPER: Working across scales - Learning from seven years of climate compatible development in Asia
A new report by John Colvin and Christina McDonagh for CDKN explores the value of stimulating climate compatible development initiatives at multiple levels of governance - drawing on seven years of work by CDKN in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Pakistan. [more]…
Resources from our partners
Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation: Trade-offs and governance
https://www.espa.ac.uk/book
The book synthesises the ESPA programme's compelling evidence on ecosystems and wellbeing. It addresses the evolving framings and contexts of ecosystem services for poverty alleviation, reviews the impacts of ongoing drivers of change and presents new ways to achieve sustainable wellbeing, equity, diversity, and resilience.
Mangrove conservation is protecting livelihoods and carbon
https://www.espa.ac.uk/publications/mangrove-conservation-protecting-both-livelihoods-and-carbon-stores
In Kenya, local people are conserving their mangroves in exchange for community development projects, in a scheme that is impacting both Kenyan and international policy. Mangroves are highly efficient at capturing carbon, much of which ends up buried below ground and is stored away from the atmosphere.
