Themes: Knowledge Brokering

Themes: Knowledge Brokering

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25th June 2015
Plugging in to the climate knowledge grid Tim Woods of Green Ink filed this report from the Climate Knowledge Brokers’ (CKB) Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this week.
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25th June 2015
Learning about climate compatible development - share with us Juliane Nier and Rachel Phillips reflect on the UK International Climate Fund's Learning for Change Dialogue and present ideas for others to use. Please share your own ideas on learning with us.
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21st June 2015
Insights from Climate Knowledge Brokers Victoria Healey of the National Renewable Energy Lab and Sigmund Kluckner of the Climate Knowledge Brokers’ (CKB) Group explore the vital role that knowledge brokers play in catalysing debate on climate change - and they interview prolific U.S. colleague William Becker. The CKB Group has its public meeting and annual conference in Copenhagen from 22-24 June.
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13th May 2015
Connecting climate knowledge – talking about a revolution Geoff Barnard, Chair of the Climate Knowledge Brokers Steering Group, discusses how the Group is progressing its aim to bring together climate information from around the world and introduces their latest initiative: a Manifesto on climate knowledge.
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Project : Communicating climate change issues in Africa

Mass media plays a critical role in shaping public opinion, and is indispensable in reaching out to the public. This CDKN project aims to support African journalists in covering climate change related stories and the position of the African Group of Negotiators.

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6th May 2015
Equator Prize 2015 - global call for nominations The UNDP Equator Initiative has
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Subnational climate compatible development: Learning from CDKN’s experience Phase II

Phase II of the Sub-national Learning Programme on climate compatible development presents an excellent opportunity to build on and enhance the learning achieved in the first phase of the CDKN and ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) partnership.

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2nd March 2015
Climate Knowledge Brokers 'join the dots' for users of climate information The Climate Knowledge Brokers Group is linking online climate and development initiatives - to make life easier for information users. The Group aims to help users who are otherwise drowning in a sea of online information.
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9th February 2015
Better use of long-term climate information could reduce risks for African investments African governments and businesses are putting their investments at risk from the long-term impacts of climate change because they are failing to take climate information into account, says a new report from the Overseas Development Institute and SouthSouthNorth for the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) programme and Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), launched today.
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29th January 2015
Academics, governments and practitioners call for 'green fiscal reform' More than 200 academics, policy makers and experts will meet in Venice, Italy, this week to debate a large emerging body of research on green fiscal policy. Learn more about innovative thinking in this area.
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22nd January 2015
POLICY BRIEF: Using climate information to achieve long-term development objectives for African ports (FCFA) Ports may be operational in a future climate that will be significantly different to the historical climate commonly used for planning: how can decision-makers ensure that port infrastructure is more resilient? A new policy brief for the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) and CDKN explores the issues and solutions.
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31st December 2014
Not just about women Beatrice Mosello of ODI and Sebastian Kratzer of CDKN report from a recent conference on the gender dimensions of weather and climate services.