Themes: Knowledge Brokering

Themes: Knowledge Brokering

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10th April 2013
Aid to Trade and opportunities for climate compatible development CDKN and the Aldersgate Group recently hosted an event to explore the role of business partnerships to deliver climate compatible development and to look at whether a shift from aid to trade could be an effective means to meet both climate and poverty reduction needs.
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4th April 2013
South Asia climate change journalist fellowship awarded This year’s 24 South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) fellows have been selected by a panel of experts from all forms of media from six countries in South Asia.
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Project
Completed
Project : Journalism research on climate change and development in Latin America

This initiative arose from the need to incorporate issues related to climate compatible development in the Caribbean, in order to raise awareness and publicise not only the threats but also the opportunities that climate change may bring.

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18th March 2013
New approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making Drawing on insights from complexity science, this paper describes what processes are needed to promote Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM).
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13th March 2013
Learning and Leading on LEDS workshop – one year on CDKN's Ari Huhtala and Caroline Spencer reflect on how far the Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) Global Partnership has evolved in the past year, as they return from the Partnership’s meeting in Thailand.
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11th March 2013
The challenge of evaluation CDKN engagement leader in Nepal, Ram Chandra Khanal, reports from the second South Asia Evaluation Conclave, where participants tackled the challenge of how to evaluate and measure impacts of climate change adaptation interventions. CDKN’s approach combining flexibility and focusing on practical aspects was well-received.
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8th March 2013
Getting to the heart of communicating climate change Presenting the public with the best scientific evidence about climate change is not necessarily the best way make them take the issue seriously, as CDKN’s Phil Lewis finds out
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6th March 2013
Audiovisual shows bring climate research findings directly to African farmers Carolyn Fry interviews Fatema Rajabali, Climate Change Convenor at IDS, about the Climate Photo-audio Project which is using slideshows as a form of digital storytelling to make research findings accessible to farmers in east Africa
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1st March 2013
Africa’s climate change networks debate how to mobilise knowledge for climate action At a meeting of Africa’s climate change knowledge brokers, delegates sought answers to three big questions in the quest to make their networks function effectively. Lisa McNamara of CDKN Africa reports
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : LDC Policy Paper Series

Climate change is one of the most complex issues addressed by humanity.

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19th February 2013
Arming Asia’s think tanks to take on climate change Could a new generation of think tanks be more effective than existing Asian institutions at tackling the challenges of climate change? Hina Lotia and Geoff Barnard joined the debate in India
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Reframing Rio

The Reframing Rio project aims to increase global public engagement and trigger new global debates around sustainable development in the lead-up to, and beyond, the Rio +20 meeting in June 2012.