Responding to the need for deliberation and coordination amongst humanitarian actors in Syria and neighbouring countries, HPG convened two high level roundtables. These brought together UN agencies, NGOs, donor representatives, and national and diaspora humanitarian groups to discuss the deepening political and humanitarian crisis, consider its impact on civilians caught up in the conflict and reflect on the response of the international and national community.

How are the United Kingdom, United States and Japan mobilising private investment for climate compatible development? A series of ODI Background Notes maps this growing area of climate finance.

The 2012 climate change intersessional meetings in Bonn will need to pick up the momentum generated in Durban. The Durban Platform has the goal of “enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties”, and includes a commitment to develop a “new protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force” by 2015.

ODI staff will be hosting and participating in a number of events at Bonn, including the REDD+ partnership workshop on drivers of deforestation, CDKN's climate knowledge brokers workshop and side events on transparency of climate finance.

This year's Durban Climate Change Conference faces a challenging agenda. There are major discussions to be had to advance global efforts on mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer and capacity-building, and last, but not least, on finance. There is much to play for and ODI is contributing by putting forward new research and analysis on two key areas of our wider climate change agenda.