Climate change projects and articles

What are the major outcomes from the climate talks and what does it all mean for developing countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change? We spoke with Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow with IIED's climate change group, for his analysis.

Sharing knowledge about how communities are adapting to climate change is important so we can apply lessons learned to other contexts.

China';s economic progress over the past few decades has been dramatic. It's now the third largest economy in the world. Income has increased by 1,200% bringing poverty from 65% of the population in 1981 to less than 10% today.The country is on track to meet most of its Millennium Development Goals and also leads the world in several indicators of environmentally friendly market growth, including wind power capacity and biomass power. With such impressive growth it is easy to forget that major disparities and inequalities still exist; China is the largest developing country in the world, with 100 of the world’s countries ahead of it in terms of per capita income. China’s progress has also come at tremendous environmental costs, both in terms of resource depletion and pollution.

Mobile lectures, a mock newsroom tussle between journalists competing for their editor’s attention, and imagining a day in the life of policymakers and poor farmers were just some of the innovative elements of two workshops on climate change communication run by IIED in Zimbabwe in February 2011.

Development and Climate Days are critical for people interested in learning about the latest in climate change and international development and for building contacts with key policymakers, researchers and negotiators from around the world. Please register to participate in this event.

We're pleased to announce that Ripples, a film about climate change and disaster management in Bangladesh, by Soren Vestergaard Neilsen, for RDRS Bangladesh was the winner of our Development and Climate film competition.

From slow-onset sea-level rise to more frequent and severe floods and droughts, our changing climate is affecting agricultural productivity and outputs, and threatening livelihoods. A recent IIED project has been looking at how to adapt Malawi's agriculture to climate change. Lead country researcher, George Matiya, senior lecturer at Bunda College of Agriculture in Lilongwe, Milawi, tells us more about the project and its wider implications.