Three Steps to Decarbonising Development for a Zero-Carbon Future A new World Bank report lays out three steps for a smooth transition to a zero-carbon future. Through data, examples and policy advice, it aims to help countries makes the shift. It tells us that to prevent temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, the world will need to transform its energy uses and electricity from clean energy sources will play an important role.

Report : Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience Focusing on the risk of climate change on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, and South Asia, this report, Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience, provides a scientific analysis of the likely impacts on agriculture, water resources and coastal vulnerability that will be felt under various warming scenarios up to an increase of 4°C.

Report : Turn down the heat: why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided This report, Turn down the heat: why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided, provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a four degrees Celsius warming within this century.

Warmer world will keep millions of people trapped in poverty A new report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics for the World Bank Group, and co-sponsored by CDKN, assesses the latest climate science and paints a bleak outlook for the world’s poor in the coming decades.

Index-Based Mortality Livestock Insurance in Mongolia This Inside Story explains how The Government of Mongolia’s Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Project is helping Mongolian herders cope with the harsh and unpredictable weather resulting from climate change.

INSIDE STORY: Index-Based Mortality Livestock Insurance in Mongolia This Inside Story explains how The Government of Mongolia’s Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Project is helping Mongolian herders cope with the harsh and unpredictable weather resulting from climate change.

Are sector-based approaches to climate change becoming obsolete? Phil Lewis, Project Manager for CDKN reports on what happened at a recent World Bank Sustainable Development event when delegates were asked 'Are sector-based approaches to climate change becoming obsolete'?

Pilot projects in limbo awaiting REDD+ financing Ghanaian businessman John Addaquay believes REDD+ can jump-start sustainable agriculture. Private investors, however, won’t take the plunge until they know what works and his quest for pilot funding from international donors shows how daunting that can be.

Doha talks highlight loss and damage - and leave much work ahead Sam Bickersteth, Mairi Dupar and Dan Hamza-Goodacre of CDKN provide an overview of UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, and the work remaining to be done to achieve ambitious, global action on climate change.

Learning network on uptake of climate and disaster risk assessments CDKN is looking for a supplier to explore the drivers for and barriers to the uptake of climate and disaster risk assessments, and how national and international participants can work to strengthen them. It will focus on the Latin American & Caribbean region, where the demand for this work is clearest, and on both - the producers and end users of risk assessments.

Climate Investment Funds (CIF) entering a new phase CDKN's Director of Policy and Programmes, Ari Huhtala, reports back from the latest global discussions about the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and reflects on the past, present and future of the CIF.

Can green growth elevate the status of environmental policy? Michael Jacobs summarises the economic and social forces ranged in favour of, and against, green growth and examines how likely it is to succeed in raising the priority of environmental policy in tough economic times.

Why we need farming and forests in our cities In the wake of the catastrophic damage inflicted on cities by Hurricane Sandy and other recent extreme weather events, Ir. Henk de Zeeuw, Senior Advisor, International Network of Resource centres on Urban Agriculture and Food security (RUAF Foundation) calls for increased urban forestry and agriculture to increase cities’ resilience to climate change.

CDKN and the Green Growth Knowledge Platform will share their expertise under new partnership CDKN has become a knowledge and programme partner of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) which addresses knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice to help countries set policies for integrating economic and sustainable development.

Latest climate signs should jolt leaders into global action CDKN's Sam Bickersteth and Simon Maxwell ask what will it take for our leaders to finally act on climate change?

Finding new ways to swim – conventional versus green growth This guest blog is from Hannah Ryder, Senior Economist at DFID, who discusses two new papers, from UNEP and the World Bank, which contribute to the growing body of evidence on green growth and give us some initial models for green growth pathways.

Transitional Committee takes stock of the Green Climate Fund Pakistan's lead negotiator climate change, Farrukh Iqbal Khan, gives CDKN an inside look at the second meeting of the Green Climate Fund Transitional Committee in Tokyo last month. Read here what the Committee learnt from their workshop on existing funds, and take a look at Farrukh's thoughts on the potential role of the private sector.

CDKN interviews Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank CDKN talks to Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the World Bank, about the need to share knowledge to stay at the cutting edge of climate compatible development.