REPORT: Raising the Bar – CDKN in Asia
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) is in its sixth year of providing support to decision makers in Asian countries to tackle the threat posed by climate change. To highlight its achievements and ongoing work, CDKN Asia releases ‘Raising the Bar - CDKN in Asia’.
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.
CDKN hosted a COP20 side event, bringing together multilateral partners, deep engagement country partners and negotiators to share experiences of transformational change
Inside Story : Advancing green growth in the tourism sector : The case of Hue, Vietnam
This CDKN Inside Story explores the opportunities and trade-offs encountered by government agencies, residents and tourism-related businesses in the City of Hue, Thailand as they explored how the carbon footprint of tourism could be reduced, while enhancing local development.
Resource
6th October 2014
OUTLOOK: India Special Edition
The Climate and Development Outlook - India Special Edition shares news of CDKN’s projects across this diverse and climate-affected country. Many of the projects focus on building climate resilience, particularly among vulnerable populations.
“Island voices, global choices”
Kiran Sura, CDKN’s Head of Advocacy Fund, outlines the objectives and major climate and sustainability debates at the Third United Nations Conference for Small Island Developing States
Local wisdom for the three pillars of resilience
Didik Fitrianto, Wetlands International Indonesia Programme, reflects on new pathways for building resilience in Indonesia as part of a CDKN supported series of voices from the field.
Feature
13th August 2014
The role of environment in the HFA2
Marisol Estrella of the United Nations Environment Programme outlines how environmental solutions play a role in disaster risk reduction.