Economic assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda
CDKN invites interested organisations to respond to an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to assess the economic impacts of climate change for Uganda with a focus on climate-sensitive sectors of the economy.
Arming Asia’s think tanks to take on climate change
Could a new generation of think tanks be more effective than existing Asian institutions at tackling the challenges of climate change? Hina Lotia and Geoff Barnard joined the debate in India
Resource
18th February 2013
WORKING PAPER: Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development
This working paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these.
Event
14th February 2013
Business Partnerships
Businesses are critical to the challenge of reducing carbon emissions so CDKN and the Aldersgate Group are holding an event to discuss climate and development business opportunities.
News
11th February 2013
Applications invited for climate change journalism fellowships
The fellowships are being offered by Panos South Asia as part of a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) project for enhancing climate change awareness and understanding among journalists in South Asia.
CDKN is working on a range of initiatives to share learning from our programme to date. One of these is an initiative to capture and synthesise lessons learned from our work at the sub-national level in developing countries.
If we know it works, why not do it?
Katie Harris from the Overseas Development Institute asks why such a small percentage of funding given to those in developing countries is spent on disaster preparedness, especially when the sums needed for emergency response following natural disasters have been climbing.
