Unlocking the potential of locally-led action: Anticipating the IPBES transformative and nexus assessments Two upcoming assessments by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) hold the promise of transformative ecosystem based solutions that are evidence-based and agreed on through multilateral science-policy processes.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in East Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in North Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.

IPCC climate science needs African authors to succeed With COP27 on the horizon, the IPCC has produced the most comprehensive African chapter yet. But African researchers face structural challenges that could hamper our ability to track progress on its recommendations and respond to climate change. An interview with IPCC contributing author Portia Adade Williams.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in Central Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in West Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: New factsheet for decision-makers in southern Africa CDKN – with the African Climate and Development Initiative, SouthSouthNorth and ODI – has launched a new series of factsheets that distil data, trends and analysis from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report most relevant to Africa’s five subregions: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, southern Africa and West Africa.

Heat-health advisories in rural India: Learning during the pandemic era Premsagar Tasgaonkar, Komal Modhave and Yogesh Shinde from the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), India describe how they have established a system to warn farmers in rural areas when heat levels are forecast to rise to dangerous levels.

Using the IPCC's Interactive Atlas to understand how Africa's climate is changing Roy Bouwer of SouthSouthNorth explored the IPCC's new Interactive Atlas of climate data, and presents here a guide on how to use it - based on his exploration of African data and trends.

New IPCC report: Only a short time remains to limit global warming to 1.5°C The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its latest assessment of the physical science of global warming. It warns that countries must cut greenhouse gas emissions quickly and sharply, to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change. There is still time to limit average global warming to 1.5°C, but nations must act now. CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports.

Namibia: Parliament as a vehicle for climate action A team from the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, the University of Namibia and Reos Partners were invited to translate climate knowledge into action. Here, they describe how they rose to the challenge - and trained Namibian Parliamentarians on the implications of 1.5 degrees of global warming.

How has Future Climate for Africa improved the understanding of climate change in Africa? Since 2015, Future Climate for Africa has brought together over 200 researchers from 14 different countries to work on enhancing scientific knowledge and prediction of African climate change. A new micro-site details its impact.