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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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The Suusamyr Declaration

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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Adaptation, Vulnerability and Ecosystems (AVE) project, Costa Rica and Panama

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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Mountain EbA Project, Peru

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Loss and damage in the Paris Agreement’s global stocktake

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How bottom-up M&E insights can inform national adaptation planning and reporting

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Building institutional capacity for enhancing resilience to climate change: an operational framework and insights from practice

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Mangroves and seagrasses in Lembongan, Indonesia. Conserving mangrove forests be part of ecosystem-based adaptation, protecting coastlines and biodiversity (Photo: Steven Lutz/Blue Forests, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Help pilot the navigator of tools for ecosystem-based adaptation

News, Jan 2019

Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso

Project, Jan 2019

Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)

2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

Blog, Dec 2018

The closing plenary of the COP24 climate talks (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Reflections on Katowice – where does the Paris Agreement stand now?

Blog, Dec 2018

CBA13: Local solutions inspiring global action

Conference, Dec 2018

Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador

Project, Dec 2018

This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica

Project, Dec 2018

Comoros, the home of LDC negotiator Fatima Athoumani, has the Indian Ocean as a close neighbour (Photo: David Stanley, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The sharp learning curve of an LDC negotiator

Blog, Dec 2018

D&C Days 2018: around 350 policymakers, researchers and development practitioners came together for discussions and debates focused on the interface between development and climate change (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)

"Follow the science": Least Developed Countries Group lead negotiator

News, Dec 2018

Debra Roberts makes a powerful presentation in the opening session of the 2018 Development & Climate Days (Photo: Alex Wynter/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)

"Half a degree matters" – D&C Days focuses on IPCC special report on global temperature-rise scenarios

News, Dec 2018

Junior negotiators and advisors under the ecbi programme gather during the workshop in Katowice (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Workshop helps negotiators from developing countries prepare for COP24

News, Dec 2018

This climate change project in a village in Senegal established a borehole and solar panels to improve water access during the dry season (Photo: Dansira Dembele/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Seeing clearly: transitioning to transparency at COP24

Blog, Dec 2018