May 20, 2012
If you run a climate and development website, what should you be thinking about in the next year? What do your users actually want?
These are the hot questions under debate at the Climate Knowledge Brokers’ workshop this weekend in Bonn, Germany.
Climate and development websites have blossomed in the past few years. Not only are organisations publishing their own information online, but many have become online ‘knowledge brokers’. They are hosting portals that pull together...
April 23, 2012
Helen Baker, Global and Africa Technical Assistance Coordinator, explores the background to a ground-breaking report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, and how it will impact on future planning for food security and sustainable agriculture.
Launched in February 2011, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change recently published its final report,...
April 16, 2012
By Mr Phillip Gwage- one of the founders of the Least Developed Countries Environmental Centre in Uganda.
High levels of poverty and low levels of development characterise Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and some African countries. The majority of the population in these countries cannot meet their basic human needs such as access to clean and safe water, adequate energy for cooking and lighting, due to a host of barriers including poor infrastructure and high costs of...
April 12, 2012
By Richard Calland, an Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, and Nancy Dubosse, an independent development economist, lead the new Climate Finance Hub initiative.
The financing of climate action has entered a watershed period. Either the momentum in favour of a substantial global fund to support both mitigation and adaptation efforts internationally– encouraged by the establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at COP17 – will be sustained, or it...
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...