Climate resilient cities - key lessons from Vietnam On the occasion of the launch of the full IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events, Sinh Bach Tan and Toan Vu Canh report on their experiences in supporting capacity building for urban climate resilience in Vietnam.

IPCC releases full report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) Read about the public release and CDKN's involvement in presenting the report to policy-makers worldwide.

Expert meeting on assessing the risk of loss and damage CDKN's Kashmala Kakakhel outlines the significance of this week's UNFCCC expert meeting on loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, in Tokyo, Japan.

Preparing for disasters to come In this blog, Zafar Iqbal Qadir, Chairman of the Government of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority describes the national, regional and local measure being put in place to mitigate against future disaster risks.

Changing climate, changing disasters - pathways to integration What if climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk management (DRM) and development had a Rosetta stone that enabled them to integrate their thinking and actions? Patricia Curmi blogs about a new tool from the Strengthening Climate Resilience Forum.

Climate resilient model villages Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of the Punjab, Pakistan, tells us how his province is 'building back better' after the 2010 floods, to help communities prepare for disasters and adapt to climate change.

Community ripples - watch how villages are building disaster resilience in Bangladesh Watch the winner of the CDKN-sponsored IIED Development and Climate Days film competition, which took place at CoP-17 in Durban.

Newly released inventory provides wealth of information on climate adaptation activities Byron Peters Stanley of the US Department of State tells CDKN about a new inventory of current and planned adaptation activities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The review is the most comprehensive snapshot of adaptation activities from a single source.

Not all in the same boat? Applying a new tool for climate impact assessment Elizabeth A. Stanton and Rámon Bueno introduce a new tool from the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Climate Impact Equity Lens, which helps analyse the diverse impacts of climate change on households.

Are we integrating climate adaptation practices in disaster risk reduction? A review of global experience by Mott Macdonald, sponsored by CDKN, looks at how climate change adaptation is being integrated into disaster risk reduction - and how such principles could strengthen post-flood reconstruction in Pakistan.