Mobile app tracks Costa Rican coffee’s carbon footprint
A mobile app for Costa Rican coffee farmers is not only helping them reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The app also feeds into Costa Rica’s Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system: part of its national commitment on climate action to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Paul May of CDKN reports.
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27th June 2019
Brazil’s local governments strengthen climate commitments
Brazil’s national government is unconcerned with climate change, but cities and subnational regions are stepping up their climate commitments, says Camila Chabar, Climate Change Coordinator at ICLEI South America.
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27th June 2019
Colombia’s climate challenge
Colombia has a robust national commitment to tackling climate mitigation and adaptation – writes Carolina Mesa of ICLEI Colombia. But the country’s challenge and opportunity is to encourage cities and subnational areas to develop activities to meet national goals. A few promising initiatives are leading the way.
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18th June 2019
A real accelerator for achieving climate goals
Question: What is one of the single most effective investments to accelerate NDC implementation?
Answer: Women’s and girls’ increased leadership and participation in climate-smart development. Mairi Dupar of CDKN reports.
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18th June 2019
Key messages of the Global NDC Conference 2019
The organisers of the Global NDC Conference 2019 summarised the three days of rich discussions among 350 delegates from 80 countries into the following key messages, issued on 17 June 2019.
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9th May 2019
Human threat to nature can be reversed
In response to the newly released Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), CDKN's Shehnaaz Moosa and Mairi Dupar call for decision-makers the world over to seize the momentum provided by IPBES' startling science.
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27th March 2019
What's the business case for climate-focused urban development in Africa?
Professor Chris Gordon, CDKN's Country Lead for Ghana, argues that innovative entrepreneurs could find a vast array of climate-compatible business opportunities in Africa's cities - especially opportunities that make efficient use of that precious commodity, water.
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23rd January 2019
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.
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4th January 2019
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.