May 10, 2012
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) aims to help decision-makers in developing countries design and deliver climate compatible development. CDKN does this by providing demand-led research and technical assistance, and channelling the best available knowledge on climate change and development to support policy processes at the country level.
CDKN’s Communication strategy is part of our overall and cross-cutting work on Knowledge Management. As CDKN moves into its third...
May 3, 2012
Have you heard of anyone going to court to obtain protection from climate change impacts? Or to sue a company for causing climate-related harm?
Individuals, communities are even whole nations are increasingly exploring these possibilities, broadly termed ‘climate change litigation’.
On Friday (27 April) in London, a group of international lawyers met to discuss the role of the courts in arbitrating climate-related disputes. Participants in the ‘...
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...
April 16, 2012
London, 17 April 2012: The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) today launches a three-part series of reports, “Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report” covering each of the Asia, Africa and Latin American and Caribbean regions.
The reports highlight the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on...
April 4, 2012
Sinh Bach Tan and Toan Vu Canh of the National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies and Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network Programme (Vietnam), blog on the occasion of the launch of the...
March 23, 2012
In the first in a two part series of blogs focussing on energy policy and climate change, Nicola Cantore, Research Officer at ODI, introduces a new report from UNIDO which will be launched at ODI on Tuesday 27th March...
March 20, 2012
CDKN media briefing: Monday 26 March 2012, 14:15 – 14:45, ExCel Centre, London
Colombia has much at stake in a changing climate: cocoa, coffee and cultural heritage, for a start. Claudia Martinez, Colombia Country Leader for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) will brief the media on the threats from increased flooding and sea level rise to Colombia’s coffee, cocoa and sugar industries and the world-famous cultural heritage of the city of...
March 16, 2012
Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review: the economics of climate change (2006), will lead a series of events in Ecuador in late March in partnership with Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment, the British Embassy – Ecuador, CDKN, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA), FUNDAR Galápagos, ...