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{{Infobox organization
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|formation = 2010
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|website = [http://cdkn.org/?loclang=en_gb cdkn.org]
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CDKN is led by SouthSouthNorth<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southsouthnorth.org/|title=SouthSouthNorth - Towards climate resilience|author=|date=|website=southsouthnorth.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> in South Africa, in partnership with Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ffla.net/|title=Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano - Inicio|author=|date=|website=www.ffla.net|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> in Ecuador, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://southasia.iclei.org/|title=Home - ICLEI South Asia|author=|date=|website=southasia.iclei.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> in India, and the [[Overseas Development Institute]] in the UK.
CDKN works across [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[Latin America and the Caribbean]], with a focus on
== Africa ==
=== Future Climate
CDKN collaborates and partners with the Future Climate for Africa programme's Capacity Development and Knowledge Exchange Unit. Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) aims to generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and to ensure that this science has an impact on human development across the continent. FCFA's goal is to reduce disruption and damage from climate change and to safeguard economic development and poverty eradication efforts over the long-term. In this way, FCFA aims to make new African infrastructure and urban and rural plans and investments more climate-resilient.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.preventionweb.net/organizations/20706|title=Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) - PreventionWeb.net|author=|date=|website=www.preventionweb.net|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>
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=== Impacts of climate change in Uganda ===
In 2016, CDKN produced the report an "Economic assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/UGANDA_Economic-assessment-of-climate-change_WEB.pdf|title=Economic assessment of the impacts of climate change in Uganda|author=|date=|website=cdkn.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> which was commissioned by the Government of [[Uganda]]. It aimed to provide the government with economic evidence on the current and future costs associated with climate variability and predicted climate change, and the necessary [[climate change adaptation|adaptation]] measures for different sectors at both national and local scales. This evidence is intended to help policy-makers mainstream climate change and resilience into national and sectoral policies and develop the case for investing in adaptation.<ref name=uganda20>{{cite web|url=https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/national-adaptation-planning/inaction-on-climate-change-will-cost-uganda-20-times-more-than-adaptation|title=Inaction on climate change will cost Uganda 20 times more than adaptation - weADAPT|author=|date=|website=www.weadapt.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>
Evidence from the study has already informed Uganda's [[Intended Nationally Determined Contribution]] (INDC) to the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]] (UNFCCC) in Paris, France, in late 2015.<ref name=uganda20 />
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=== The Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan ===
After a heat wave hit [[Ahmedabad]], a western city of 5.5 million people, in May 2010, killing over 1,300 people, local authorities mapped areas with "high-risk" populations including slums, as part of an extreme heat action plan.<ref name=nita>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151227102019/http://in.reuters.com/article/india-heatwave-disasters-idINKBN0OD2GT20150529 Ahmedabad offers way to beat the heat as 1,786 killed in heat wave], Nita Bhalla, Reuters, access date 3 May 2017</ref> CDKN supported the creation and roll-out of the action plan.<ref>[http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/healthcare/casestudies/heat-health-action-plan-in-India.html Beat the heat: Heat health action plan in India], PwC, access date 3 May 2017</ref>
The project built up public awareness of the risks of high temperatures and set up "cooling spaces" in temples, public buildings and malls in the summer months.<ref name=nita />
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=== Enhancing upstream-downstream cooperation and equitable water access in Nepal ===
In Nepal, CDKN through this project directly responds to expressed demand from water user groups, municipal governments, and national government about growing contestation with upstream communities, and have requested design interventions to ensure sustainable water flow. This project draws from over five years of research and local engagement on the interrelation of water, urbanization, and climate change in three rapidly urbanizing cities experiencing water stress carried by [http://www.sias-southasia.org/ Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies]. It also seeks to contribute to climate adaptive and inclusive water governance by catalyzing evidence and encouraging informed decision-making processes at local, provincial, and federal levels of government. In doing so, it seeks to enhance institutional mechanisms for cooperation and equitable water access.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019|title=City level water forum for inclusive and equitable water governance|url=http://www.sias-southasia.org/ongoing-research-projects/city-level-water-forum-for-inclusive-and-equitable-water-governance/|url-status=live|access-date=2020-12-01|website=SIAS, Southasia Institute for Advanced Studies|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114163540/http://www.sias-southasia.org/ongoing-research-projects/city-level-water-forum-for-inclusive-and-equitable-water-governance/ |archive-date=2021-01-14 }}</ref>
=== Scaling up climate smart agriculture ===
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== Negotiations support ==
CDKN's Negotiations Support programme provides legal and technical support to negotiators from the most climate vulnerable countries. These countries have the most to lose from climate change but are often unable to fully represent their interests in international climate negotiations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/supporting-international-climate-negotiators-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework|title=Supporting international climate negotiators – a monitoring and evaluation framework|author=|date=|website=GOV.UK|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> The Negotiations Support programme won the International category at the Management Consulting Association Awards for the negotiation support work around the Paris Climate Agreement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pwc.co.uk/services/sustainability-climate-change/sustainability-and-climate-change-credentials.html|title=Our sustainability and climate change awards
== Legal Response Initiative
CDKN funds and supports the Legal Response Initiative (LRI), which seeks to create a more level playing field between actors in the climate change negotiations.<ref name=lri>{{cite web|url=https://legalresponse.org/about-us/supporters/|title=LRI » Supporting us
The Legal Response Initiative provides free legal support to poor and particularly climate vulnerable developing countries, and civil society observer organisations, at international negotiations under the [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]] (UNFCCC). It operates through a network of lawyers from law firms, barrister chambers and universities in different jurisdictions who give hands-on assistance during meetings, draft legal opinions or build the capacity of lawyers and negotiators from developing countries.<ref name=lri2>{{cite web|url=https://legalresponse.org/|title=LRI
The Legal Response Initiative won 'Best Education Initiative' at the Climate Week Awards in 2014<ref name=lri2 /> and 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdkn.org/2014/03/news-cdkn-wins-climate-week-award-for-legal-response-initiative/|title=NEWS: CDKN wins Climate Week Award for Legal Response Initiative|author=|date=5 March 2014|website=Climate and Development Knowledge Network|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>
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In 2015, CDKN became the co-secretariat of the [[Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP)]] alongside the [[National Renewable Energy Laboratory]] (NREL).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ledsgp.org/about/|title=About the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP)|author=|date=|website=LEDS Global Partnership|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>
CDKN is also an active member of the Climate Technology Centre and Network,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ctc-n.org/network/network-members/climate-and-development-knowledge-network|title=Climate and Development Knowledge Network|author=|date=18 November 2014|website=Climate Technology Centre & Network|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> the Green Growth Knowledge Platform<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/organization/climate-and-development-knowledge-network-cdkn|title=Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)|author=|date=10 December 2013|website=Green Growth Knowledge Platform|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> and the Climate Knowledge Brokers Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reeep.org/climate-knowledge-brokers-group|title=REEEP - Climate Knowledge Brokers Group|author=|date=|website=REEEP|access-date=5 March 2019|archive-date=3 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503085152/https://www.reeep.org/climate-knowledge-brokers-group|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://cdkn.org/?loclang=en_gb Climate and Development Knowledge Network]
* [http://www.pwc.co.uk/ PricewaterhouseCoopers]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120804114612/http://www.ffla.net/new/ Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130812161538/http://www.lead.org.pk/ Lead Pakistan]
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