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👉 https://cdkn.org/story/cdkn-bonn-june-climate-meetings-sb64

From 8–18 June, CDKN will be engaging at the UNFCCC SB64 sessions in Bonn, helping shape discussions that will inform decisions at COP31.

Our Programme Lead, Lisa McNamara, GESI Lead, Patricia Aruho Bamanyaki, and partners will represent CDKN across a range of official and partner events.

📅 CDKN key events:

🔸 Daring Cities 2026 Bonn Dialogues
🗓 10 June
⏰ 11:00–12:30 (CEST)
📍 GIZ
Lisa McNamara will join a plenary panel on cities and climate governance in a post-COP30 context.

🔸 Official UNFCCC Side Event
🗓 12 June
⏰ 10:30–11:45 (CEST)
📍 Room Bonn
This CDKN co-covened event aims to explore how to scale and embed locally led adaptation, with insights from CDKN’s work across country contexts.

🔸 EbA Knowledge Day
🗓 12 June
CDKN will be engaging with participants on the day, showcasing all our projects related to EbA.

🔸 UNFCCC Skills Lab
🗓 13 June
⏰ 09:15–11:15 (CEST)
Lisa McNamara, Patricia Bamanyaki, and Arsema Andargatchew, CDKN Ethiopia Country Manager, will co-facilitate a session on advocacy for integrating GESI into climate policy.

Follow our page for insights, reflections and updates from Bonn.

IDRC / CRDI Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) UN Climate Change Cris Robertson

🇪🇹 How are community-led solutions driving climate resilience in Ethiopia? 🇪🇹
👉 https://cdkn.org/resource/enhancing-resilience-ethiopias-simien-mountains-through-community-led-ecosystem-based-adaptation

A new Learning Story by Hannah Sack, Nadia Sitas, Arsema Andargatchew and Kaleb Asnake Worku shows how, in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, a community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) project implemented by ORDA Ethiopia and CARE Ethiopia is delivering real, tangible change for both people and nature – restoring ecosystems, strengthening livelihoods, and reshaping governance.

As a result:
✅ Over 1.9 million seedlings have been planted, restoring 8,642 hectares of land
✅ Access to clean water improved through spring development and watershed management
✅ 280 savings and loan groups support more than 7,000 members to build financial resilience
✅ Livelihoods have been diversified through beekeeping, ecotourism, and climate-smart agriculture
✅ Women’s leadership increased significantly, with participation in key roles rising to over 40% in watershed cooperatives

This case study offers valuable insights for climate policy and practice globally, showing how important is for communities to shape climate solutions.

👉 Read the full Learning Story here: https://cdkn.org/resource/enhancing-resilience-ethiopias-simien-mountains-through-community-led-ecosystem-based-adaptation

IDRC / CRDI Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken Cris Robertson

🌿 Ahead of , learn how CDKN's work supports locally led, rights-based approaches that integrate and 👉 https://cdkn.org/story/acting-locally-global-impact-advancing-biodiversity-and-climate-action-through-rights-knowledge-and-governance

We need to recognise the important and interlinking role of nature and people in achieving both adaptation and mitigation goals. Actions that restore ecosystems while strengthening community rights and leadership can deliver powerful co-benefits for both people and nature.

Experience from CDKN and its partners has shown that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and other nature-based solutions (NbS) can deliver long-term gains, but only where they are shaped by local priorities and grounded in local realities.

📖 Want to learn more? Read here 👉 https://cdkn.org/story/acting-locally-global-impact-advancing-biodiversity-and-climate-action-through-rights-knowledge-and-governance

Photo credit: Nature and People as One - NAPO



IDRC / CRDI Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken Green Climate Fund Global Environment Facility Climate Policy Initiative African Development Bank Group Cris Robertson