Adaptation Fund and CDKN launch 'Climate Finance Ready' The Adaptation Fund and CDKN are pleased to announce their strategic partnership and creation of “Climate Finance Ready,” a new website that will provide an online platform for climate finance readiness.

Lima event inspires cross-generational action for zero poverty, zero emissions Participants from all generations participated in a unique and highly ambitious set of debates in Lima, Peru this weekend on 'zero poverty, zero emissions'.

Will leaders ride a wave of public support to Sendai, New York and Paris? Mairi Dupar of CDKN reports from the 'Zero Poverty, Zero Emissions' event on the possibility for coherence among the 2015 development, climate and disaster risk reduction frameworks.

Adaptation Fund and CDKN Partner for “Climate Finance Ready” – website for knowledge sharing in climate finance readiness The Adaptation Fund and CDKN are pleased to announce their strategic partnership and creation of “Climate Finance Ready,” a new website that will provide an online platform for climate finance readiness.

Climate Finance is flowing, but it isn’t enough - Figueres. The UN Climate chief, Christiana Figurers is concerned that the $650 billion dollars raised to finance climate change adaptation initiatives in developing countries is not enough to meet the growing financial needs to tackle global warming.

Africa expresses concerns over $100 billion climate fund The African Group at the UN Climate change talks in Lima is concerned that the Green Climate fund pledge is far below expectations, affirming that the figure can only be considered a baseline for climate action.

CDKN's programme at COP20, Lima CDKN presents its programme of side events at COP20 in Lima, Peru in December 2014. They cover: countries' experiences in preparing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) Amazon climate and water security, and ambition for a world with zero net emissions and zero poverty.

REPORT: The Status of Climate Finance at COP20, Lima A new briefing by the Climate Finance Advisory Service (CFAS) highlights the key climate finance issues on the agenda of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) at their meeting in Lima, Peru in December 2014.

Will the Lima climate conference sustain progress toward a strong climate deal? Will the UNFCCC’s COP20 deliver a year-end high for what has been an extraordinary year for climate change? Or will we find ourselves looking back on two weeks’ worth of talks in Lima to find some glimmers of hope? Sam Bickersteth and Kiran Sura of CDKN report.

INDCs – what existing building blocks can developing countries use? Helen Picot, Kiran Sura and Christopher Webb of CDKN argue that many developing countries have solid foundations on which to develop their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for presentation to the UNFCCC.

African expectations from climate change funding Sena Alouka, Director of Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement in Togo, discusses the progress of the Green Climate Fund, and Africa's engagement with climate finance.