Climate resilience in Asian cities Franziska Schwarz of CDKN reports on a special session on resilience-building in Asian cities at the recent Planet Under Pressure conference.

Looking ahead to the 6th Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Conference Ali T. Sheikh, CDKN Asia Director, discusses why the upcoming 6th Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Conference in Vietnam, 16-20th April 2012, is important for turning CBA from a ‘niche’ to the norm.

Getting to grips with the water-energy-food 'nexus' The ‘nexus’ has become a popular buzz word to describe the complex linkages among water, energy and food security. CDKN's Mairi Dupar and Naomi Oates explore why nexus thinking has become popular, and how it might relate to climate compatible development.

Energy aid and climate compatible development strategies Jos Bruggink is professor emeritus of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam and former head of the unit Policy Studies of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). In this blog, based on his recent research, he challenges the ‘triple-win’ approach to merging adaptation, mitigation and development in climate compatible development approaches.

Project on agriculture, vulnerability and adaptation in Colombia achieves agreement among experts CDKN funded project in the Cauca Region held its fourth workshop to identify climate variables and indices to use for vulnerability analysis. Nationwide invitation involved Colombia’s most outstanding specialists and researchers.

No ‘cookie cutters’ - we’ll do LEDS our own way CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports from the LEDS Global Partnership meeting where members are celebrating the diversity of low emissions development approaches.

Leading researchers and government officials analyse poverty and climate change links in Peru CDKN and Group Analysis for Development (GRADE), with the support of IIED, are organizing the seminar "Analysis of the relationship between climate change and policies to reduce poverty", to take place in Peru on 22 March.

Accelerating the global transition to clean energy Emily Miller reports on the work of the newly created Clean Energy Solutions Center, which is working with policy-makers in South Africa and Indonesia to turn clean energy visions into action.

Scaling the heights to raise awareness of climate compatible development A series of blogs will be reporting from a four month trek along the Great Himalaya Trail in Nepal, led by the world record holding mountaineer Apa Sherpa and in partnership with the Government of Nepal, which is raising awareness of climate compatible development in this highly vulnerable region.

Powering Southern Africa - the future of hydro in the Zambezi River Basin CDKN is supporting a study on the impact of climate change and upstream irrigation development on hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin. Most of the northern SADC countries already rely primarily on hydropower, and this will increase in the future. However, many of these countries are also periodically under water stress during drought, while the water demand continues to grow, largely due to major irrigation investments.

In conversation with... Emilio La Rovere, Chief Scientific Advisor to CDKN CDKN in conversation with our Chief Scientific Advisor, Emilio La Rovere, who talks about his work with CDKN and how the context for climate compatible development has changed in the two years since CDKN was launched in 2009.