Climate change blogs
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Celebrating the drylands
17 June 2014Understanding and collaboration on the drylands teaches us much about adapting to climate change
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Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
4 June 2014The Gambia's Special Climate Envoy identifies four themes for action on climate change in the UN negotiations and beyond
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Finally, the US gets serious on climate change
3 June 2014President Obama's declaration on limiting emissions of carbon dioxide by a third from coal-fired power plants in the US marks the tipping point in US engagement in tackling climate change
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If you care about the 21st century, vote for Europe!
22 May 2014People across the European Union are going to the polls on 22 May. But why does Europe matter?
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Making gender equality a global and local reality
21 May 2014The UNFCCC has taken significant steps to promote women's increased participation in the global climate change negotiations process. It's a gain for gender equality, but gaps remain
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Voices of people with disabilities must be heard in climate change adaptation debate
16 May 2014We need to strengthen the capacity of people with disabilities so they can access the resources needed to adapt to climate change, says the Kathmandu Declaration that was launched last month
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Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?
9 May 2014What will you bring to the table to address the challenges of climate change? Emilie Parry, a volunteer at CBA8, draws comparisons between her recent experiences in Nepal and her time in Haiti
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Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
1 May 2014As everyone increasingly experiences changes associated with a warming planet, does a global phenomenon like climate change affect people in the same way?
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Investing in adaptation to climate change brings bonus benefits
29 April 2014Is a problem shared a problem halved? This is the question that sprang to mind this week in Nepal as participants of CBA8 met for the pre-conference field trips
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How do we best create long-term impact that matters to smallholder farmers?
9 April 2014We need a plan. A plan that will guide us towards achieving real impact for smallholders around the world
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Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
4 April 2014Progressive countries, including some of the world's poorest, are acting to green their economies and build resilience to climate change
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Cambodia to climb climate change readiness ladder
3 April 2014Cambodia is one of several countries that are developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track different climate change actions at national as well as local levels
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Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
3 April 2014"Climate consists of so many things to us," says Ibrahim Shone, a pastoralist in Isiolo County in Northern Kenya. "It's not only weather, it's also about how we prepare for droughts and diseases, and find enough grass for our animals. These things change with the seasons."
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The IPCC rings the warning bell louder. Is anyone listening?
2 April 2014IIED Senior Fellow Saleemul Huq, one of the co-authors of the latest IPCC report on climate change, highlights the key findings of the publication and what policymakers need to do next
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How to assess what people want from REDD+
31 March 2014Focus groups, choice experiments and votes in villages reveal big difference in how communities wish to be rewarded for avoiding deforestation
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Paving the way for social learning in the climate change context
24 March 2014Social learning has been identified as an approach that has the potential to improve the quality of stakeholder participation in and uptake of research
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Mixing meteorology with traditions to improve climate forecasts for pastoralists
19 March 2014Tanzanian meteorologists and traditional weather forecasters in pastoralist communities are working together to develop a unified system of climate information.
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Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin
18 March 2014Assessing how development interventions can help people cope with climate variability will help us prepare better measures for the effects of future climate change, say Simon Anderson and Fawad Khan
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Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
18 March 2014Proponents of community-based adaptation to climate change need to put communities in the driving seat, says Anju Sharma
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Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
17 March 2014Climate change, health and urban resilience are all connected, and this means research and policy in these arenas must join up
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Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level
11 March 2014While many policymakers in the world's richest nations continue to deny the urgency of action on climate change, governments in the 48 least developed countries are pushing ahead with plans to adapt – or at least trying to
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Monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique shows how to link local and national climate adaptation
28 February 2014The prize of better climate adaptation awaits nations that can evaluate their efforts at both national and local levels, so evidence from each scale can inform future plans and actions, say Simon Anderson, Irene Karani and Melq Gomes.
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Green Climate Fund: a big step forward, but many decisions pending
28 February 2014The UN climate change convention's Green Climate Fund (GCF), aims to help countries adopt "transformational" pathways to low carbon, climate resilient development. Its 6th board meeting last week in Bali yielded mixed results for the world's most poor and climate vulnerable countries.
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Connecting the dots: Sharing knowledge to build climate resilient green economies
19 February 2014People who work on climate change policy often receive too much information, or struggle to access the right knowledge, in the right format, when they need it. Two kinds of organisations can help.
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Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up
7 February 2014Effective monitoring and evaluation of changes in community resilience that arise from both development and climate change resilience, can help Nepal can make smart moves to protect its people, says Susannah Fisher.