Themes: Policy and practice

Themes: Policy and practice

Feature
12th April 2013
Climate compatible development in Colombia - Interview with Claudia Martínez Ex vice minister of environment and Country Engagement Leader of CDKN in Colombia, was recently interviewed by El Tiempo newspaper. She explains the importance of climate change adaptation and its relation with climate compatible development
Feature
12th April 2013
How to strengthen agricultural, livestock and forestry public policies (2013) The brief suggests that the policies generated should have quality in the design, be implemented effectively, and guarantee institutional strengthening, greater awareness through social communication, and political and social support, for achieving its goals.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : AMCOW Capacity Building – Building capacity for climate resilient decision-making in water investments

This project aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of planning departments in ministries and local governments in eight African countries by integrating water security and climate resilience into water-related development planning.

Feature
12th April 2013
CDKN East Africa Climate Finance Workshop – Executive Summary Here we present the Executive Summary of a CDKN workshop on climate finance in East Africa at the Friendship Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia over 25-26 March 2013.
Feature
11th April 2013
Vietnam’s National Green Growth Strategy As part of a series of case studies on low emissions development strategies in Asia, the Government of Vietnam discuss in a new CDKN and Asia LEDS Partnership briefing note the story behind their National Green Growth Strategy
News
11th April 2013
Conversations on Green Growth in Asia Watch a new video from CDKN and the Asia LEDS Partnership in which Asian countries share their innovative approaches to low emissions development.
Feature
8th April 2013
Identifying the best routes to climate compatible development In the first of two pieces reporting on CDKN’s workshop on Climate Compatible Development (CCD) in Ethiopia, Mónica Andrade, Regional Coordinator of CDKN LAC, outlines delegates’ views on the drivers of, and barriers to, successful CCD implementation
News
4th April 2013
South Asia climate change journalist fellowship awarded This year’s 24 South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) fellows have been selected by a panel of experts from all forms of media from six countries in South Asia.
News
28th March 2013
Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan is officially launched After 18 months of development and an extensive consultation process across sectors of society, Kenya launched its National Climate Change Action Plan yesterday. Tim Ash Vie, CDKN East Africa Hub Lead, reports from Nairobi.
Feature
22nd March 2013
With temperatures rising, major Indian city moves closer to releasing life-saving heat action plan Anjali Jaiswal and Meredith Connolly tell us how the Ahmedabad government is taking steps to protect its 7 million residents with a new Heat Action Plan.
Feature
21st March 2013
Thailand’s Low Carbon City Initiative The first in a series of case studies on low emission development from CDKN and the Asia Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Partnership
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Journalism research on climate change and development in Latin America

This initiative arose from the need to incorporate issues related to climate compatible development in the Caribbean, in order to raise awareness and publicise not only the threats but also the opportunities that climate change may bring.