How Kenya can turn its gender and climate change commitments into reality
Kenya has strongly promoted gender equity and women’s participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes. Emma Bowa of CARE Kenya talked to CDKN's Giovanna Grandoni about whether these aspirations have translated into reality.
Very little is known about the potential impacts of climate change on Belize’s water resources, despite this being identified as a priority area of research for the country. This project will use modeling to assess the potential impacts of climate change on the supply and demand for water and water quality in Belize across different climate change and land use scenarios and in so doing, will determine the hydrographic areas most vulnerable to climate change.
In many Caribbean countries, national and sectoral level policies are lagging behind the already evident threats to development from climate change despite the strong efforts made at the international and community level to adapt. The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), in collaboration with the World Resource Institute (WRI) and the St. Lucia National Trust (SLNT) is implementing a project in St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago to increase civil society engagement in policy and institutional analysis for climate change adaptation.
Feature
7th April 2014
Communicate both the IPCC findings and the process
Katharine Vincent, an author of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, reflects on our growing understanding of vulnerability, impacts and adaptation to climate change - and how the IPCC itself has evolved.
Working Paper : How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change
This CDKN working paper explores the potential of ‘scaling out’ community-based adaptation pilots in order to bring more quality benefits to more people over a wider geographical area, more equitably, more quickly, and more lastingly.
Now that the IPCC's Working Group II report is done, it's up to all of us
Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre and a Lead Author of the Working Group II Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5) reports live from the conclusion of governmental negotiations in Yokohama, Japan.
Feature
27th March 2014
How do you prepare for an uncertain future?
How could 'Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making' help African communities to become more climate-resilient? Lindsey Jones introduces the latest findings from the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA).
