Updated standards for climate-smart risk reduction unveiled at COP A new edition of the CDKN-supported minimum standards on climate-smart disaster risk reduction released this week in Warsaw.

Indian partner organisations win UNFCCC Lighthouse Award for community resilience The Gorakhpur Environment Action Group and SEEDS India, two CDKN partners, have won accolades from the UNFCCC for their work to build community resilience to climate change in Gorakhpur, a flood-prone district of India.

Will the climate ever change for Sunderbans CDKN/Panos Journalist Fellow and Nature India Editor, Subhra Priyadarshini's investigative report on the Sunderbans was recently recognised by the Global Investigative Journalist Network

Super Typhoon Haiyan Dr Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, discusses the link between the Super Typhoon and climate change.

The diplomatic way to avoid dangerous climate change A new report on climate diplomacy aims to help governments integrate climate change into decision-making across all policy areas. The report was published by E3G, a UK-based not-for-profit company specialising in climate change, with CDKN’s support. E3G’s Senior Policy Advisor, Liz Gallaghar, explains.

Figueres calls for finance pledges, and progress in tackling climate losses at Warsaw conference CDKN’s Mairi Dupar reports the key points of a landmark address by Christiana Figueres in London, which looked forward to next month’s global climate negotiations in Poland.

Climate change and exposure to ‘natural’ disasters threaten to derail global anti-poverty efforts A new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK Met Office and Risk Management Solutions shows how disasters and climate change could undermine the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.

IPCC’s planetary health check calls for serious action CDKN Chief Executive, Sam Bickersteth explains what the IPCC's AR5 tells us about the impacts of climate change and how developing countries are already working towards climate compatible development

Partnership counts the successes and challenges of building resilience Mairi Dupar, CDKN’s Global Public Affairs Coordinator, reports from The Hague, where she joined the CDKN-supported Partners for Resilience alliance to take stock of their ambitious programme to build community resilience in developing countries.

Disaster risk reduction gets only 0.4 percent of aid The international community spent $13.5 billion on reducing the risk of disasters in the past two decades, just 40 cents for every $100 of aid, and a tiny amount compared with the $862 billion in disaster losses suffered by developing countries, according to a new ODI report.

G20 Summit - A Missed Opportunity? Mihir Bhatt, Director of All-India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), considers the recent G20 Summit a missed opportunity to tackle the vulnerability of economic growth and development to natural disasters and climate change.