The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) is hosting and facilitating four bi-annual informal dialogues, aimed at providing a forum for informal discussion on UNFCCC climate negotiations among LAC countries.
CDKN is supporting the LDC Group, via IIED, to provide legal, technical and strategic advice to the LDC Group Chair and core team to help them prepare for, participate in and influence the negotiations.
Since the inception of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in August 2012, Dutch NGO B
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17th February 2015
High stakes for the first round of climate talks in 2015
Last week, governments met in the Palais des Nations, Geneva for the latest round of UN talks to agree a new draft negotiating text for a global climate deal. Kiran Sura and Helen Picot of CDKN report.
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11th February 2015
Fiscal policies support climate compatible development
Fiscal policies play an important role in guiding investment decisions towards low emission and climate resilient options, report Sam Bickersteth and Ari Huhtala from the Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference.
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30th January 2015
Outlook news: Peru Special Edition
The latest edition of CDKN’s Climate and Development Outlook shines the spotlight on Peru, which holds the Presidency of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), and where CDKN has an established programme to support climate compatible development.
What’s next in climate change? INDCs!
We’re going to hear a lot more in coming months about INDCs, Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, says CDKN's Executive Chairman Simon Maxwell. INDCs are the country pledges that will form the basis of negotiation in the run-up to the UNFCCC's twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in 2015.
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16th December 2014
Developing countries secure some last minute concessions in Lima; but can a deal without ambition really be fair?
The UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Lima, Peru leaves us wondering if global ambition to tackle climate change will ever be high enough to avoid many of the catastrophic impacts of a changing climate. If the UNFCCC is to deliver this, then 2015 will need to be an exceptionally productive year. CDKN’s Sam Bickersteth, Kiran Sura and Chris Webb report.
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16th December 2014
Drowning in information at COP - what’s the solution?
CDKN's Geoff Barnard discusses the bewilding deluge of climate knowledge at COP20 and the importance of knowledge curators to organise and provide access to this information.
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13th December 2014
Water scarcity is a danger sign – time to innovate, and fast
Freshwater is under acute pressure from climate change in North Africa and the Caribbean, COP20 delegates heard on Wednesday. Experts from countries as diverse as Algeria and Belize urged visionary leadership from politicians to protect natural resources, reports CDKN's Mairi Dupar from Lima, Peru.
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12th December 2014
Amazon alert
The Amazon region’s environmental problems may seem intractable. However, the Amazon Security coalition presents a new framing of the problems that could capture political attention, delegates hear at COP20 in Lima, Peru.
