Themes: Climate change mitigation

Themes: Climate change mitigation

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10th May 2013
Action to halt warming will save my nation Minister Tony de Brum of the Republic of the Marshall Islands describes the clear and present danger posed by climate change to his nation, and calls us all to arms against this threat.
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Completed
Project : Developing a carbon reduction, resources and opportunities toolkit for Kenya’s flower sector

Kenya’s flower sector contributed over £350 million to the national economy in 2011. The flower sector aims to develop a unified response to climate change through practical and localized accounting and management solutions for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy efficiency and water use.

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30th April 2013
Modelling the social costs of mitigation policies Efforts to curb GHG emissions within countries will have ripple effects throughout the economy. Computer models currently under development offer useful tools for policy makers to explore scenarios illustrating the social costs of different mitigation actions.
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29th April 2013
Priority CCD actions for Pakistan As part of a CDKN project, a team from IISD are working with the Government of Pakistan to identify priority actions that will achieve the National Climate Change Policy
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15th April 2013
How can Pakistan best leverage climate finance? As part of a CDKN project supporting the Government of Pakistan, John Ward and Philip Gradwell from Vivid Economics, outline the key considerations and options for the country’s future climate finance architecture.
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Completed
Project : Subnational climate compatible development - Learning from CDKN’s experience

CDKN is working on a range of initiatives to share learning from our programme to date. One of these is an initiative to capture and synthesise lessons learned from our work at the sub-national level in developing countries.

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4th February 2013
Challenges from the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit CDKN's Asia Director, Ali T. Sheikh, puts forward six challenges to climate compatible development that emerged at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS)
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1st February 2013
Join CDKN at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit CDKN is hosting, together with the Asia LEDS Partnership, an open session at the Dehli Sustainable Development Summit on ‘Learning from Green Growth Initiatives in Asia’ on Sat 2nd Feb.
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28th January 2013
Inside Story : Creating market support for energy efficiency: India’s Perform, Achieve and Trade scheme Through the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme, India has become the first developing country to adopt an energy efficiency trading scheme that uses market-based mechanisms. This Inside Story reports on the lessons which can be learned from the design & planning phases.
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20th December 2012
Kenya – Communicating climate compatible development with the private sector CDKN is seeking a supplier to use Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan as a basis for communicating key climate change messages to the Kenyan private sector.
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2nd November 2012
Inside Story : Going after adaptation co-benefits: A REDD+ programme in Fiji Fiji has an advanced REDD+ policy and planning process. It shows that REDD+ financing can support broader forms of climate compatible development, beyond climate mitigation.
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2nd November 2012
Renewable Energy - Made in Brazil The wind energy sector was incentivized through a feed-in-tariff, in 2005, which was changed into an auction program in 2009. The main change here was that the feed-in-tariff guaranteed a fixed price, which power producers receive for twenty years in the future...