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Clearing flood damage in Fiji. Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is leading the development of a long-term climate vision for his country (Photo: Ben Beiske, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Long-term strategies under the Paris Agreement – key principles for good governance

Early morning in the Indonesian city of Jakarta reveals heavy air pollution, largely caused by its notorious traffic jams (Photo: Aaron Minnick/World Resources Institute, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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How tackling climate change could tackle inequality

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board met in Songdo, South Korea – a new high tech city built on reclaimed tidal mudflats (Photo: pegl, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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The Green Climate Fund is facing an opportunity – not a crisis

Map shows where the EbA Evidence and Policy project is being undertaken

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Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

A woman farmer in Malawi, surrounded by maize, examines her crop

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CBA12: Local experience driving climate action

The TAMD method is being used to assess the impact of biogas plants in rural Pakistan. Here researchers talk to villagers in Sheikhuwal village (Photo: IIED)

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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Mobilising money to where it matters

Researching the benefits and challenges of getting development and climate finance flowing to the local level More in this collection

Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

A young Maasai herder sees a future in pastoralism (Photo: gritty.org)

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Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Stepping up global ambition to stay below 1.5°C

How IIED is supporting Least Developed Countries and other vulnerable developing countries to achieve equitable and ambitious outcomes in global climate decision making More in this collection

Members of a community risk reduction committee fill gabion bags with stones to prevent flood damage to farm land in Ethiopia (Photo: USAID/CRS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR)

Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

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Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments

Ministerial-level consultations on the Myanmar National Climate Policy, Nay Pyi Taw (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)

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Developing Myanmar’s national climate change policy

Climate-resilient development

How IIED is supporting public policy responses in delivering climate-resilient development outcomes for the most poor More in this collection

A USAID programme training workers to install solar panels at health clinics in Rwanda. Rwanda is an early adopter of low-carbon climate resilient development (Photo: Walt Ratterman, Sunepi, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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The political economy of financing climate resilient development

A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)

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Government group network on climate change mainstreaming

The TAMD method is being used to assess the impact of biogas plants in rural Pakistan. Here researchers talk to villagers in Sheikhuwal village (Photo: IIED)

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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Publications

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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Burkina Faso

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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Senegal

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Nature-based solutions: delivering national-level adaptation and global goals

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Ecosystem-based adaptation: the key to addressing climate change in Nepal

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Gender, voice and power for climate action A theory of change for the meaningful inclusion of lived experiences in decision-making

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From global ambition to country action: Bhutan steps towards low-carbon climate-resilient development

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Tetiaroa Island in French Polynesia is one of many small islands that are highly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: NASA, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Wanted: Consultant to work with Climate Change research group

Article, Nov 2018

Members of a community risk reduction committee fill gabion bags with stones to prevent flood damage to farm land in Ethiopia (Photo: USAID/CRS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR)

Project, Nov 2018

This project was designed improve adaptive capacity of rice production systems in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam (Photo: V. Meadu, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Call for evidence: long-term effective adaptation

News, Nov 2018

A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi

As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops

Blog, Oct 2018

Citizens wade through a flooded road in Bandung City

The IPCC’s report on global warming of 1.5˚C spells out the urgency of action

Blog, Oct 2018

Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)

Addressing risks facing informal workers

Project, Oct 2018

Part of a giant mural produced at the 2017 D&C Days visualising the conversations and discussions at the event (Image: Jorge Martin)

Join us for the 16th Development & Climate Days at COP24

News, Sep 2018

This graphic shows how securing well-being in the face of climate change involves reducing vulnerability, increasing resilience and increasing adaptive capacity

Supporting national monitoring and evaluation systems to enable adaptation assessment and reporting

Project, Sep 2018

Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments

Project, Sep 2018

Kenyan ministry officials, agricultural researchers and farmers are testing a range of climate adaptation measures in lower Nyando district (Photo: V. Atakos/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Addressing the political and technical challenges of measuring adaptation

Blog, Sep 2018

Fiji Prime Minister Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama addressing the opening session of this week’s UN climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Governments must move to formal negotiations in Bangkok and start shaping the final rulebook

Blog, Sep 2018

A graphic which highlights the enefits of investing in national M&E systems for climate change

Webinar: Benefits of investing in national monitoring and evaluation systems

News, Aug 2018