May 17, 2012
- This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy options may impact LAC in Ghana. It analyses not only how REDD+ may affect the provision of assets necessary for adapting to climate change, but also the role of REDD+ in building processes and functions that develop the adaptive capacity of people at the local level.
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- This case study examines how REDD+ and adaptation policies are currently aligned in Nepal’s national policy, before assessing whether planning for REDD+, outlined in the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP), is likely to contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level....
CDKN’s Country Project Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, Patricia León, attended the Resilient Cities Congress in Bonn. Here, she gives her impressions of the key debates and how they relate to CDKN’s experience supporting climate compatible development at both local and national level.
CDKN is proud to be an endorsing partner of the third Resilient Cities Congress. Resilient Cities is...
May 15, 2012
- Farmers living in deforested and degraded land in Uganda have begun earning carbon credit payments by planting indigenous trees. The payments are made by companies in Europe and America who want to reduce their environmental impact by compensating for their carbon dioxide emissions. Local NGO, Ecotrust Uganda, provides technical support to the farmers, and calculates the payments they are entitled to – according to how much carbon is stored in the trees over their life span. Pauline...
- In Malawi, climate change has been marked by less reliable rainfall patterns, higher temperatures and more extreme events like floods and droughts. The Malawi Lake Basin Programme is helping farmers to cope by use of sustainable land management practices, which help to retain more water in the soil, as well as by encouraging farmers to plant drought-resistant crops. Meanwhile, the Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services is working to provide up-to-date weather forecasts that...
In an effort to address the twin challenges of water security and climate change, the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) launched the Strategic Framework for Water Security and Climate Resilient Development during the 4th...
May 12, 2012
- Hailed as a development success story for lifting millions out of poverty and staying on track to meet all its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, Vietnam's future progress is severely threatened by the impact of global climate change.
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May 8, 2012
Government and business must put weather-related disaster risk management at the heart of economic and fiscal planning.
That is the message from a new Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) report launched today (May 9) at the African leg of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The...
May 1, 2012
April 25, 2012
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...