Climate finance options for National Climate Funds The maturation of the international climate finance landscape is presenting country climate funds with the opportunity to access larger, more transformative capital. Charlotte Ellis and John Ward of Adam Smith International share lessons learned from Rwanda for maximising a national climate fund's potential to mobilise resources.

Four lessons from supporting Ethiopia’s Green Climate Fund planning What is required in developing projects for the Green Climate Fund? Kirsty Wilson, Principal Consultant – Climate Change, LTS International looks at four key lessons learned from the experience of supporting the Government of Ethiopia prepare a proposal to the Fund.

CDKN launches new e-book 'Mainstreaming climate compatible development' CDKN has launched a new e-book presenting insights from five years of designing and delivering climate compatible development across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. We invite your comments and suggestions.

Putting INDCs into action - perspectives from South and North Kiran Sura, CDKN’s Head of Negotiations Support, reports on a COP21 event where the governments of Kenya, Bangladesh, Lebanon and Germany presented insights on how they prepared their INDCs and intend to implement them. Additional reporting by Mairi Dupar, CDKN.

Financing climate compatible development Torry Kuswardono Director of Perkumpulan Pikul-Kupang & Henriette Imelda (Program Coordinator from the Institute for Essential Services Reform) outline initiatives taken through the CDKN supported project ‘Finding the Finance: Climate Compatible Development in Asia Cities’.

Financing INDCs - realising opportunities for investment in mitigation and adaptation The availability of climate finance looms large over the Paris climate talks. It will influence how well developing countries are able to realise their ambitions for climate compatible development in the years ahead. Smita Nakhooda and Darius Nassiry explain.

What role for carbon markets in the Paris climate agreement? Nations are hoping to reach a new agreement in Paris in the next two weeks, which will replace existing rules governing international emissions trading. Over half of the national pledges submitted to date plan to use or are considering the use of market mechanisms. Alessandro Vitelli from the Legal Response Initiative reports.

Direct access to international climate finance - a view from Latin America and the Caribbean Mathieu Lacoste of CDKN provides an overview of the status of climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. He explores how countries of the region are creating the conditions to enjoy direct access to climate finance in the future.

Learning by doing - testing models for rural electrification in India and Uganda Juliane Nier and Susannah Fitzherbert-Brockholes of CDKN report on how businesses in India and Uganda are learning from each other about the scale-up of decentralised renewable energy technologies.

The Green Climate Fund – baby steps towards delivery CDKN's Ari Huhtala and Christina Elvers report from the meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board in Zambia last week, where the Board made its first funding decisions.

Synergies: A way to respond to the complexity of climate change Paula Ellinger da Fonseca, Regional Climate Change Manager at Fundación Avina, joins the Low Emission Development Strategies Latin America and Caribbean (LEDS LAC) annual event and is inspired to hear of the many possible synergies between climate adaptation and mitigation actions.