A tale of three cities: Heat Action Plans across India Anjali Jaiswal and Jessica Korsh of the Natural Resources Defence Council describe how Heat Action Plans they have devised with local governments, supported by CDKN, are being rolled out across the country as temperatures peak.

Has India's Supreme Court taken a step towards climate compatible development? Mihir Bhatt, CDKN's Senior Strategic Advisor in India - who heads the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) - reflects on an historic judgement by India's Supreme Court this month in response to the country's severe drought.

African governments will use track record of public climate funds access to attract private finance Experts who gathered to discuss climate finance in Addis Ababa last month found that many of the standards and procedures developed to channel public funds to African countries may provide the foundation for new forms of private finance to flow for climate resilience. CDKN Africa's Senior Programme Manager Suzanne Carter reports.

Leading roles for women: Secret to effective climate action after Paris summit CDKN launches its new report today on the role for gender equality in achieving climate goals - based on original research by Practical Action Consulting, with IDS and ODI, in India, Kenya and Peru.

Severe heat wave grips India: Authorities can draw on insights from Ahmedabad experience CDKN's Mihir Bhatt reports from Ahmedabad, in India's current heat wave zone - and reflects on how learning from CDKN's innovative partnership project in Ahmedabad could help save lives all over again.

Adapting Rwanda's economy to a changing climate Watch the recording of this panel event, where panelists discuss a ‘decision first’ approach to adapting to climate change in Rwanda’s tea and coffee industries.

After Paris: “Pakistan has a long way to go to get from intended to implemented” - Ali T. Sheikh With melting glaciers of the Himalayas threatening the flows of many of its most important rivers, Pakistan has a lot at stake from climate change. Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, CDKN´s Asia Director, examines the challenges and prospects opened up by the Paris Agreement in Pakistan.

Unpacking Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage in the National Context of Bangladesh Munjurul Hannan Khan, CDKN’s policy advisor in Bangladesh and Tahmina Hadi from NACOM discuss the need to improve understanding of Loss & Damage in Bangladesh, and the increasing importance and focus on Loss & Damage in global climate negotiations.

Forthcoming research call on resilient cities in Latin America CDKN, IDRC and FFLA are pleased to announce that we will launch a research call, the "Resilient Cities Initiative on Climate Change in Latin America” in May 2016.

Climate vulnerability assessment: CDKN's experience in Uttarakhand Climate vulnerability assessments should be the cornerstone of adaptation action and can play a key role in India's State Action Plans on Climate Change, says CDKN Programme Manager Aditi Paul. Here, she reports how CDKN is supporting the Uttarakhand State Government to do a vulnerability assessment - that can generate action to save lives and livelihoods.

Seven top tips for climate vulnerability assessment with impact What does it take to create a climate vulnerability assessment with impact? Aditi Paul, CDKN's Country Programme Manager for India, spoke with Paul May, and they distilled these lessons from CDKN's experience in Uttarakhand state.

Da Nang - A rising star, menaced by extreme rainfall Da Nang is one of Vietnam's major port cities. Miren Gutierrez uncovers the measures taken by a CDKN project to protect the city's residents from worsening rainfall in a changing climate.