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Six ways that thoughtful community planning can help fight climate change
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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This blog considers how community planning can help fight climate change with examples from the USA.
Design for climate change
Posted on: 3 June 2014
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Bill Gething, an independent architecture and sustainability consultant who specialises in climate change adaptation and thermally upgrading existing buildings, discusses his most recent book, ‘Design for Climate Change’, co-authored with Katie Puckett.
Climate & Development Knowledge Network: Inside Stories
Posted on: 29 May 2014
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The Climate & Development Knowledge Network regularly produces “Inside Stories on Climate Compatible Development” that explore the lessons learned from a range of city and subnational initiatives. The latest in the series, published in May 2014, include: Catalysing sustainable tourism: The case of Chiang Mai, Thailand; Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: the case of Gorakhpur, India; Addressing heat-related health risks in urban India: Ahmedabad’s Heat Action Plan; A local vision of climate adaptation: Participatory urban planning in Mozambique; and Pioneering renewable energy options: Thailand takes up the challenge.
Strengthening climate resilience in African cities: A framework for working with informality
Posted on: 29 May 2014
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The African Centre for Cities and the Climate & Development Knowledge Network have launched a new report. Tailored to development practitioners, it offers a set of eight principles for undertaking climate compatible development in African cities, addressing climate dynamics alongside the socioeconomic, spatial and political dimensions of development.
Climate compatible development: voices for change
Posted on: 29 May 2014
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In this film, members of the Climate & Development Knowledge Network’s global team provide expert opinion from around the world on the progress being made toward climate compatible development on a daily basis. They talk about the key objectives of climate compatible development: to provide jobs, improve access to healthcare and education while addressing climate related impacts and improving climate resilience and low carbon development for the future. Each of CDKN’s focus countries present unique challenges and opportunities for climate compatible development. In this film, the global team discuss the initiatives in place to overcome these challenges in their respective countries and regions.
Resilient pathways: the adaptation of the ICT sector to climate change
Posted on: 28 May 2014
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The objectives of this report are to explore the impacts of climate change on the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the potential for adaptation, including the need for new standards to be developed.. It aims to raise awareness of the need to design and implement strategies for the sector to better prepare for, respond and adjust to the impacts of short- and long-term climatic manifestations. It gives an overview of the impacts, opportunities and challenges posed by climate change to sector stakeholders; it identifies existing and emerging adaptive measures and provides suggested actions to strengthen the ICT sector’s approach to adaptation.
CBA8: 8th conference on community-based adaptation to climate change. Kathmandu, 24-30 April 2014
Posted on: 21 May 2014
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This event looks at the latest developments in community-based adaptation financing, planning and best practices. Highlights from the event, including comments, blogs, and social media coverage from the three days of fields trips and four days of conference sessions of CBA8 are available online. The conference concluded with the launch of the Kathmandu Declaration on Financing Local Adaptation, which saw delegates call for a radical shift in flows of finance to ensure the most vulnerable communities can adapt to climate change.
Productive science-practice in climate change adaptations
Posted on: 14 May 2014
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This new publication from CIRCLE-2, a European network for research and co-operation on climate change, makes recommendations for better approaches to science-policy-practice working. Recommendations in the briefing note are drawn from a literature review, as well as the outcomes of working sessions at the European Climate Change Adaptation conference in Hamburg in 2013.
Resilient cities
Posted on: 9 May 2014
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A report by the property group Grosvenor has ranked the world’s leading cities according to their resilience to, amongst others, climate change. The three most resilient cities are Canadian, while London rates 18th, which despite its good adaptive capacity, suffers because of its lack of affordable housing.
How to win the argument on climate change: a five-point plan
Posted on: 6 May 2014
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A new paper by Simon Maxwell, Executive Chair of Climate Development & Knowledge Network offers a five-point plan on how to win the public and policy argument on climate change.
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