Climate change

We create, share and use knowledge to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and community adaptation to climate change

UN climate change conference (COP22)

Promoting equitable global governance, resilience and adaptation to climate change

The ascent of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has shifted his position on climate change since 2011, illustrates growing links between a populist nationalist agenda and climate denial (Photo: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
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Saleemul Huq called COP not fit-for-purpose during his opening speech on the second day of D&C Days (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
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A woman buying firewood at Bamako, Mali. IIED has been working with the government of Mali to set up local climate funds to help communities be more resilient during floods and droughts (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
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Global climate law, policy and governance

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

Negotiators, including representatives of the Least Developed Countries, at the UNFCCC conference centre in Bonn in January 2014 (Photo: IIED)
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Southern African parliamentarians on a fact finding mission to the Kuyasa Clean Development Mechanism project in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Least Developed Countries map from Wikimedia Commons 2006
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Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

How IIED is building capacity to act on the implications of climate change for equitable and climate resilient development in the drylands

Stormclouds gather over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where aid agencies provide emergency help, but long-term planning is needed to deal with wider environmental stresses (Photo: Hadi Jaafar, Diane Archer, Akram Hajj Hassan and Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
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A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)
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The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)
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