May 9, 2012
Panos South Asia invites applications for the South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellowships 2012.
The fellowships are being offered through a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) funded project ‘Enhancing climate change awareness and understanding amongst journalists in South Asia’, managed by Panos South Asia with technical cooperation from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
...
(ICIMOD).
May 5, 2012
CDKN’s Elizabeth Colebourn and Amy Kirbyshire report from the New Delhi, India outreach event for the IPCC’s ‘Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation’ (SREX), 2-3 May 2012.
“The IPCC published the SREX. So what? What happens now?” asked one of the participants of the IPCC SREX outreach event in Delhi this week. This blunt question got to the heart of the purpose of the SREX...
May 3, 2012
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and local partners hosted an outreach event on ‘Managing the Risks of Climate Extremes and Disasters in Asia – What can we learn from the IPCC Special Report?’ at Le Meridien, New Delhi, India on 2 – 3 May 2012.
The IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (known as ‘SREX’) has been prepared over two years by...
April 25, 2012
Sam Bickersteth, CEO, CDKN
The Government of Vietnam, IIED and BCAS (Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies) have just hosted the Sixth annual Community Based Adaptation (CBA) conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, 16-22 April. I participated, together with CDKN’s Asia Director, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, many members of CDKN network and some 300 others from 61...
As climate change impacts begin to hit mostly poor and vulnerable communities in developing countries around the world, some of those very communities are leading the way in both adapting to the adverse climate impacts that are already occurring and in building adaptive capacity to tackle long-term climate change.
Some of these communities are located in different parts of Vietnam, where over three hundred international delegates from sixty countries recently met at the sixth...
March 26, 2012
by Kashmala Kakakhel, CDKN
Negotiators are finally shrugging off Post-Durban lethargy and gearing up for a first new round of talks of 2012. The subject is loss and damage and the city is Tokyo, Japan. The need for this meeting was suggested by Parties to the UNFCCC at CoP 17 in Durban, in December 2011.
The Parties in Durban unanimously requested the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) to continue the implementation of the loss and damage...