Climate resilient development: experience from an African capacity development programme Climate resilient development: experience from an African capacity development programme

The Water-Energy-Food nexus: Insights from Amazonia Helen Bellfield and David Sabogal of the Global Canopy Programme look at how human needs for water, food and energy create a nexus of demands on natural resources in Amazonia and they draw lessons from the CDKN-backed Amazonia Security Agenda project.

POLICY BRIEF: Improving sustainable commodity supply chains in Amazonia This policy brief looks at new methods of decoupling the agricultural commodity supply chains from deforestation in Amazonia.

POLICY BRIEF: Amazonia security agenda This policy brief assesses the Amazonia security agenda and policy coherence in Brazil, Colombia and Peru using a water-energy-food nexus approach.

Report: Aceh and the archipelago economy - Protecting forests for water, energy and food security  A series of studies were undertaken in Aceh to explore some the challenges facing the province, as they work towards meeting the goals of the medium-term development plan (RPJMN) without further environmental degradation.

Policy Brief : Learning from an African capacity development programme A new Learning Brief reviews how the Water, Climate and Development Programme for Africa (WACDEP) managed to build capacity for climate-resilient development, with CDKN's support, and considers how such programmes could be improved in the future.

INSIDE STORY: Future Proofing of an Indian City - Lessons from Madurai Future proofing is an innovative approach to strengthen the 'blue-green infrastructure' of cities to cope with urbanisation and climate change. A new ‘Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development’ from the DHAN Foundation explores how they engaged broad swathes of the community in Madurai, India, to begin future proofing the city.

INSIDE STORY: 'Watershared' - Adaptation, mitigation, watershed protection and economic development in Latin America This new Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development by Nigel Asquith of Natura Bolivia describes how reciprocal watershed agreements – otherwise known as 'Watershared agreements' – are simple, grassroots versions of incentive-based conservation that help upper watershed forest and land managers to sustainably manage their forest and water resources to benefit both themselves and downstream water users, contributing to climate compatible development.

Seeking capacity development results How can capacity development best be organised to generate good results? Klas Sandström of Niras looks at a CDKN-supported water project where over 130 professionals increased their capacity in climate resilient planning and a Pan-Africa network in climate adaptation work was established.

After Paris - “Going from intended to implemented, that is the question” says Margaret Kamau, Kenya Kenya aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to Business As Usual. Margaret Kamau, CDKN's Country Engagement and Project Manager talks to Miren Gutiérrez about what this target means for her country.