Climate adaptation: top priority, or just one of many?
'We also cannot simply ignore the projected climate impacts, as some of the current ‘best practice’ in water management may actually lead to increased vulnerability to climate impacts.'
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All that glitters - what next for climate finance?
This debate explores the state of climate finance and asks how to make climate finance work for the poorest. Smita Nakhooda - Research Fellow, Climate Change - joins the panel to discuss whether climate finance is achieving its goals.
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Mongolia: readiness for climate finance
This report kick-starts discussions in Mongolia to improve its climate readiness capacity and to support work towards the establishment of a national implementing entity which could be accredited to directly access external funds. -
Climate finance challenges and responses
Ari Huhtala, Neil Bird, Ciline HerweijerThis paper summarises the thinking on climate finance among Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Alliance members and suggests areas for prioritisation and action by the international community. -
Five early lessons from donors’ use of climate finance to mobilise the private sector
In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilise $100 billion in climate finance per year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries in the face of climate change. Meeting this target will require transformational change in the scale and pace of financing. Public sector resources can play a pivotal role in catalysing private sector investment.
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Germany’s private climate finance support: mobilising private sector engagement in climate compatible development
Shelagh Whitley and Rohan MohantyThis ODI Background Note looks at interventions by German actors to mobilise private sector climate finance support. -
Voices from the source: struggles with local water security in Ethiopia
Mengistu Dessalegn, Likimyelesh Nigussie, Wondwosen Michago, Josephine Tucker, Alan Nicol and Roger CalowWhat are the physical, social, economic and political drivers of water insecurity in different locations in Ethiopia? How have different communities responded to situations of water stress? What should be the public policy and institutional priorities to improve resilience to water stress at a local level, and reduce the negative impacts on communities? This assessment explores local water security in two very different sites in rural Ethiopia – a pastoral district in the eastern Somali region (Shinile), and a somewhat remote agricultural district in the south (Konso). -
When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
Katie Harris, David Keen and Tom MitchellThis report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. The research recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. -
Vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana
A vegetable farmer with his watering cans in Ghana's Upper West Region, which has suffered failed rains and rising temperatures.
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Source: FlickrGroundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic basin
The overall objective of this work is to provide an authoritative overview of the occurrence and status of groundwater resources in the Indo-Gangetic Basin (IGB) and to strengthen the evidence base linking groundwater, climate population and abstraction – collating and systemising existing data for policy and national planning and future research programmes. -
Climate and Development Outlook: special edition on low emissions development
Mairi Dupar and Elizabeth ColebournThis Climate and Development Outlook takes a special focus on low emissions development (LEDS) initiatives in developing countries and their nascent results