Reflections on achieving climate resilience in Latin American cities María José Pacha, Ebru Gencer and Manuel Winograd share climate resilience insights from Latin American cities on the frontlines of climate change impacts.

Seeing political settlements through the city: A framework for comparative analysis of urban transformation This article presents a new analytical framework for studying cities in the developing world based on the ‘political settlements’ approach. This approach is explored through three narrative ‘sketches’ of contemporary urban development in Eastern Africa.

WORKING PAPER: The local business case for climate action A new CDKN working paper reviews the business case for climate action at city level and suggests five main entry points that climate change practitioners should be aware of, and where appropriate, build into their project approach to support more effective climate action in cities.

Mainstreaming climate compatible development: Insights from CDKN's first seven years This flagship book draws from CDKN's experience of supporting climate-compatible development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and provides practical recommendations on how to achieve low-carbon, climate-resilient development in low income and emerging economies.

POLICY BRIEF: Making Indian cities climate smart India’s policy response to the needs for sustainable, resilient and low-carbon cities is the Smart City Mission that promotes “cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to their citizens, a clean and sustainable environment while applying ‘Smart’ Solutions.”

POLICY BRIEF: Making renewable energy markets work In 2015, India enhanced its renewable energy target to 175GW by 2022 supported by a concrete and comprehensive roadmap of policy and regulatory reforms, market-support, detailing technology need and bilateral and global cooperation.

Zimbabwe’s changing urban landscape This Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) scoping report has been prepared for the DFID’s’ Zimbabwe country office to better understand urban trends and dynamics in Zimbabwe which can inform future urban programming.

POLICY BRIEF: Framework for effectiveness and resilience of small and medium-scale irrigation systems in Nepal A CDKN project helped the Government of Nepal to assess how irrigation will be affected by climate change - and to come up with recommendations to improve irrigation practices and make them more climate-resilient.

ESSENTIAL: Building climate resilience in cities This CDKN Essential summarises CDKN's work to mainstream climate compatible development in cities of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, with examples that show engagement approaches and planning and financing tools to increase cities’ resilience to the physical and health impacts of climate change.

Inside Story: Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India (Hindi) Gorakhpur District is recognised as one of the most flood-prone districts in Eastern Uttar Prades