Themes: International climate negotiations

Themes: International climate negotiations

Resource
12th May 2015
POLICY BRIEF: How a high-ambition global climate deal will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals This policy brief explores the relationship between the level of ambition in a new global climate agreement to be negotiated in 2015 - and the likelihood of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Feature
4th May 2015
Reflections on the road to Paris Teresa Ribera, Director of IDDRI and former Secretary of State for Climate Change for the Government of Spain, describes how the Government of France is preparing for COP21 in a consultative way. She asks whether this promising approach could apply to other global policy processes.
News
28th April 2015
INDC process kicks off in Kenya Kenya has initiated the process to submit its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the UNFCCC. Emelia Holdaway of Ricardo-AEA reports.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Towards a sustainable development-based Indian INDC

The INDC provides an opportunity for examining and enhancing such approaches toward a climate compatible development transition in India.

Event
15th April 2015
'How to prepare your Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)' for Least Developed Countries A new publication from CDKN and Ricardo-AEA provides practical guidance to Least Developed Countries on how to prepare their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) for the UNFCCC. This recorded webinar explores how to use this practical template.
Resource
30th March 2015
REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies
Feature
24th March 2015
Lessons from the INDC process in The Gambia The Gambia has embarked on developing its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) for submission to the UNFCCC in advance of the anticipated Paris agreement this year. A team from Climate Analytics looks at some initial lessons from the process so far.
Feature
18th March 2015
Managing disaster risks can bring other benefits, even if catastrophe never strikes This week, the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan kicks off a pi
Feature
10th March 2015
2015, the choreography CDKN’s Executive Chairman Simon Maxwell offers his suggestions for how leaders can choreograph their approaches to the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, the global climate change agreement, and financing for development.
Feature
10th March 2015
2015, the choreography - Part Two CDKN’s Executive Chairman Simon Maxwell offers his suggestions for how leaders can choreograph their approaches to the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, the global climate change agreement, and financing for development. This is Part Two of Simon’s blog.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Research on the impact of climate change on achievement of the post-2015 development agenda

This project will investigate the development impacts projected for varying levels of climate ambition in the post-2015 development agenda, as such a deal will necessarily impact on national decision making around resource allocation and development priorities.

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Research and support on adaptation and equity in Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is working to clarify the issues of adaptation and equity in Intended Nationally Determined Contributions for developing countries, via in-country support to Ethiopia and Colombia, and the production of a working paper providing guidance to developing countries on adaptation.