What prospect for NAMAs to finance climate action in Asia? CDKN's Syed Muhammad Abubakar highlights CDKN’s efforts to assess Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) as a tool to support renewable energy solutions for Sialkot, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Guide to the world of finance - for climate change professionals  Kirsty Hamilton of Chatham House introduces a new guide that provides a factua

Getting climate finance ready - Experience from Bangladesh and Pakistan In this first of three sets of video presentations from the workshop ‘South-South Learning Exchange on Developing Bankable Climate Projects’, Jorge Villanueva and Zabreen Hasan of CDKN pose questions to climate finance specialists from South Asia: Iftikhar Hossain and Nazmul Haque of Bangladesh and Fawad Hayat of Pakistan.

What makes a good proposal for the Adaptation Fund? CDKN and its partners have been sharing experiences with each other on how developing countries can become more 'climate finance ready'. As part of this programme, we interviewed Mikko Ollikainen of the Adaptation Fund Secretariat about what he's looking for in a project proposal.

Climate funds face tension between country ownership and pressure to disburse funding Virginie Fayolle, a Senior Economist at Acclimatise, explores some of the tensions between international climate funds' drive to disburse funding and the standards and procedures required of their developing country recipients. This is the first blog from a CDKN learning programme on what makes a 'bankable' climate project.

Mobilising finance for climate change adaptation Fareeha Irfan Ovais, CDKN’s Project Manager, Low Carbon Scenario Analysis for Pakistan, describes how climate finance can be integrated into the overall development priorities of the country.

Learning to access climate finance - Insights for Bangladeshi businesses Jennifer Steeves and Virginie Fayolle of Acclimatise explore how Bangladeshi businesses are moving forward on climate finance opportunities.

REPORT: Lessons from REDD+ for achieving water, energy and food security in Indonesia This report, funded by CDKN, seeks to assess the extent to which (1) REDD+ objectives have been integrated into national development planning and (2) legal, regulatory and institutional reforms under the development of REDD+ have facilitated the improved governance of land-based sectors.

INSIDE STORY: Renewable energy solutions for Punjab’s industrial sector - Evaluating the NAMA approach in Sialkot City, Pakistan Sialkot, Pakistan is a large manufacturing hub, in need of more energy supplies. CDKN and partners looked at the option of developing a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) to provide renewable energy to the city's industries. Michelle Bosquet and Juan Pablo Osornio explore how businesses and government got involved - and broader lessons from the experience.

India strengthens its credentials for green bond issue CDKN’s Senior Advisor for India, Mihir Bhatt, and Head of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute watches India expand its participation in global green bond markets and highlights the striking potential of this investment vehicle for driving green growth.

INSIDE STORY: 'Watershared' - Adaptation, mitigation, watershed protection and economic development in Latin America This new Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development by Nigel Asquith of Natura Bolivia describes how reciprocal watershed agreements – otherwise known as 'Watershared agreements' – are simple, grassroots versions of incentive-based conservation that help upper watershed forest and land managers to sustainably manage their forest and water resources to benefit both themselves and downstream water users, contributing to climate compatible development.