Partnership with parliamentarians enriches Pakistan’s climate and development debate A major research project has tailored climate change information for the use of parliamentarians in Pakistan – enabling them to apply new knowledge to some of the country’s pressing social and environmental challenges. Samavia Batool and Abid Suleri report.

The IPCC’s 1.5°C Report Suzanne Carter, CDKN Country Engagement Coordinator, highlights why we need to start seriously considering the risk of extreme heat in African cities, following the release of the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5°C.

A Financing Framework for Resilient Growth: What it means for Pakistan Marwah Maqbool Malik of Oxford Policy Management introduces the Financing Framework for Resilient Growth and some lessons learned from its application in Pakistan.

Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay join to increase resilience of tri-border region The 'Triangle City Cooperation' project - part of the Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America initiative - has not only furnished evidence and solutions to combat climate vulnerability in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It has also catalysed new forms of tri-border cooperation among the countries, to build their collective climate resilience.

Politics, poverty and climate change Leo Roberts from the Overseas Development Institute unpacks how Cape Town’s people and politicians are responding to the city’s worst-ever drought and the threat of ‘Day Zero’: when most taps will run dry.

GUIDE: Heat action plans - Scaling up India's ambition to protect the climate-vulnerable This CDKN Guide presents the story of how an action research initiative in a single city in India has evolved into contagious policy action in 17 cities and 11 states, with interest from national leadership.

Addressing policy challenges from Chennai’s 2015 extreme rainfall event This policy brief identifies the key causes of Chennai's 2015 extreme rainfall and gives recommendations for building urban resilience in the area.

Climate attribution science: A useful tool to plan for extreme heat events This policy brief identifies how climate attribution science can help to mitigate future extreme heat events and address the needs of those most affected.

Working paper: Working across scales - Learning from seven years of climate compatible development in Asia A new report by John Colvin and Christina McDonagh for CDKN explores the value of stimulating climate compatible development initiatives at multiple levels of governance - drawing on seven years of work by CDKN in India, Indonesia, Nepal and Pakistan.

The world loses its greatest climate warrior As tributes continue to pour in from around the world in appreciation of the work of Ambassador Tony de Brum, the Marshallese statesman, Sam Bickersteth and Kiran Sura reflect on the life of CDKN’s deeply valued partner.

WORKING PAPER: Critical success factors for resilient water infrastructure This working paper presents a set of five critical factors for increasing the climate resilience of water infrastructure, based on a review of six CDKN funded projects, which was made up of a desk review and interviews with project stakeholders.

REPORT: Building capacity for risk management in a changing climate This report provides a summary of results and learning from the Raising Risk Awareness Project. Find out how climate change and extreme weather have been linked, and how different stakeholders responded to and acted on the information.