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Climate Change Knowledge Network
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Background
The Climate Change Knowledge Network (CCKN) came together in 1998 to increase the exchange of knowledge and research expertise between developed and developing countries on climate change-related activities and to make this knowledge accessible to all countries of the world. Through the cross fertilization of ideas and collaborative efforts between and among members of the network, the CCKN strives to strengthen the pool of knowledge on climate change that can be fed into the international policy process.
The member organizations of the CCKN collectively seek to:
- promote a more effective, sustainable and equitable climate change regime through capacity building, research and communication on issues such as the Kyoto mechanisms, adaptation and technology transfer;
- improve dialogue and exchange among industrialized and developing countries in an effort to enhance understanding of the linkages between climate change and sustainable development in all regions; and
- develop the capacity of its own member organizations to create and communicate policy-relevant, country- and region-specific knowledge on climate change.
The CCKN puts a particular emphasis on using its unique combination of substantive, technical and geographic expertise and perspectives to develop the capacity of developing countries to respond to climate change in a manner consistent with their own sustainable development priorities.
Since 2002, the Climate Change Knowledge Network has undertaken a project on the impacts of economic and climate changes on India's agricultural sector. The main objective of this project is to examine the vulnerability to, and impacts of, climate change and globalization on Indian agriculture and rural communities, and to offer constructive policy recommendations to enable adaptation to those impacts.
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