The Climate Change Knowledge Network brings together expertise, experience and perspectives from research institutes in developing and developed countries active in the area of climate change. It provides a forum for rigorous research on the issues within the international climate change structure and a means for furthering dialogue between countries as they undertake efforts to address climate change.

New publication on CDM and Decentralized Renewable Energy released

The CCKN is pleased to announce the release of its newest publication Seeing the Light: Adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries. The central theme of this book is that well-designed decentralized renewable energy projects are in fact a mitigative and an adaptive response to climate change – that DREs address core sustainable development priorities and build adaptive capacity to climate change, without increasing GHG emissions. Building coherent climate policy around the DRE option is a win-win opportunity that addresses the South's adaptation needs and the North's mitigation priorities. The publication includes case studies from Senegal, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Brazil and Argentina that highlight rural energy projects and their links to adaptation benefits. It also reflects on the CDM feasibility of decentralized renewable energy projects.

More information about this publication is available on our Decentralized Renewable Energy page.

The CCKN at COP-9

The Ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change took place from December 1 to 14, 2003, in Milan, Italy. Many of the CCKN's partner organizations were actively involved in this international dialogue on climate change.

During COP-9, the network itself held a side event at which it launched "Seeing the Light". During this event, presentations were made by the various case study authors who contributed to the development of this publication. Coverage of this event was provided by ENB on the Side (1,307 kb) .

CCKN project partners (27 kb) were actively engage in numerous other side-events coinciding with COP-9 in Milan.