Themes: Policy and practice

Themes: Policy and practice

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - Connecting climate journalists in Latin America

This project aims to foster the creation of a global network of journalists and media organisations in the developing world that are capable of reporting on climate-change adaptation and other aspects of environmental finance for both a general and specialised audience.

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Knowledge brokers collaboration - The InfoAmazonia GeoJournalism project

The InfoAmazonia GeoJournalism Platform builds on existing simple yet effective mapping and visualisation technologies, such as Google Earth, to help journalists and other knowledge brokers increase the Latin American public’s awareness about climate and development issues in the Amazon region.

Resource
9th May 2012
INSIDE STORY: A new direction in climate compatible development - Indonesia's forest moratorium In 2011, Indonesia's President signed into law a two-year moratorium on new permits to exploit primary natural forest and peatland. This CDKN 'Inside story on climate compatible development' explores the potential of Indonesia's forest moratorium, and lessons for other countries.
Resource
8th May 2012
INSIDE STORY: Achieving development goals with renewable energy – the case of Tanzania Tanzania's Small Power Projects programme is supporting the country's economic growth and human development, while limiting its greenhouse gas emissions, as Lutz Weischer explains in this latest 'Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development' from CDKN.
Feature
3rd May 2012
Climate change litigation - a rising tide? CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports on how individuals, communities and even whole nations are increasingly exploring climate change litigation.
Feature
2nd May 2012
Caribbean communities are finding practical climate change solutions The impacts of climate change are measurable and present. But how 'real' is climate change to daily life in the Caribbean?
Feature
27th April 2012
The more information, the better the adaptation Analysis of the relationship between climate change and poverty reduction policies in Peru
News
27th April 2012
CDKN-sponsored project in Anguilla generates great interest at the Barbados Power Summit The Barbados Power Summit, on April 16-17, brought together regional utilities, government representatives, NGO’s and energy developers from the Caribbean to discuss challenges and opportunities for renewable energy integration.
Feature
25th April 2012
Enhancing the impact of the community of CBA practitioners CDKN's CEO Sam Bickersteth attended the 6th Community Based Adaptation Forum, in Hanoi. Here he talks about what we need to do to ensure growing momentum in CBA is mainstreamed to transformational climate adaptation.
Feature
20th April 2012
Reason, empathy, and fair play for a better climate policy Liz Stanton introduces three changes to economic models that will transform "slower-emissions-growth" policy into measures for immediate, steep reductions in greenhouse gases.
Feature
18th April 2012
Postcards from Planet Under Pressure The ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference was billed as the world’s ‘largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the UN Rio+20 Summit’. CDKN staff members, Mairi Dupar, Naomi Oates and Franziska Schwarz blog on what they found out.
Feature
16th April 2012
Communicate and transform - messages from the planet under pressure conference The 'Planet Under Pressure' conference was billed as the world’s 'largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the UN Rio+20 Summit'. What did we learn about climate compatible development? CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports.