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.
Feature
29th March 2018
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.
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.
Resource
29th August 2017
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.
Resource
17th August 2017
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.
REPORT: Extreme drought in Ethiopia stretches drought management systems
This factsheet, from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, examines the impact of the 2015-16 drought on Ethiopia's drought management systems. The drought was an extremely rare event that only happens approximately once every few hundred years in north-eastern and central Ethiopia.