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...
May 17, 2012
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 16, 2012
Emily Brickell, an ODI Research Officer, blogs from the UNFCCC intersessional meetings in Bonn on the opportunities for addressing the drivers of deforestation in non-forest sectors. Her blog picks up themes that are also reflected in CDKN’s recently published Inside Story, ‘A new direction in climate...
May 11, 2012
CDKN is looking for an individual to travel to Pakistan to prepare and facilitate a workshop with 15-20 senior Government stakeholders in early June 2012. The purpose of the workshop is to understand the priorities and needs of the government for developing a framework on Risk Insurance for disaster prone communities in Pakistan.
The outputs of the workshop will inform the design of the project and the tender documentation that CDKN will then procure competitively. The individual will...
On February 15-17, the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) held its second meeting. On May 28-29, it will meet again. The TEC is informally called the “policy arm” of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism, which aims to enhance climate technology development and transfer for mitigation and adaptation. Despite its importance, the TEC has not been much discussed or studied. In this blog, two followers of the UNFCCC technology negotiations give their views on how the TEC can make a...
The poorest and most climate vulnerable countries often face significant barriers to being able to effectively participate in the international climate change negotiations in particular the UNFCCC process. One such barrier is a lack of sufficient training in and knowledge of climate change, UNFCCC processes, and negotiation and facilitation skills, which inhibits their ability to constructively contribute and influence negotiation proceedings. There is a lack of comprehensive training that...
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 6, 2012
The Climate Knowledge Brokers (CKB) Group was formed in 2011 at an initial workshop held in Eschborn, Germany, to explore the scope for closer collaboration between online knowledge brokers working in the climate and development sectors. It demonstrated a keen appetite for closer collaboration and generated a range of ideas on how to make...
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 4, 2012
Lack of reliable access to electricity is a significant barrier to economic development and job creation in Tanzania. Currently, only 14% of the population has access to electricity; in rural areas the electrification rate hovers around 2%. Power outages are frequent – especially during droughts, which cripple the hydroelectric power on which most of the country depends.
This policy brief, by Lutz Weischer of World Resources Institute for CDKN, explores Tanzania’s Small Power...