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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)

Project

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

Extinction Rebellion climate protesters march through London behind a big green banner proclaiming 'Rebel for life'

Blog

The Paris Agreement always needed Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg

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)

Blog

How tackling climate change could tackle inequality

O Fundo Luzia Dorothy do Espírito Santo ajuda mulheres a aumentar sua independência econômica (Foto: Fundo Dema)The Luzia Dorothy do Espirto Santo Fund helps women increase their economic independence (Photo: Dema Fund)

Case study

Delivering climate finance at the local level: the Dema Fund

CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development

Article

CBA13: event highlights

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

Project

Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

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)

Project

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

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

Project

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)

Project

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

Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

Project

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)

Article

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)

Project

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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ecbi 2019 Regional Training Workshop Report – Anglophone Africa

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Enfoques de adaptación basados en ecosistemas: fortalecer la evidencia e informar políticas. Resultados del proyecto de Adaptación, Vulnerabilidad y Ecosistemas (AVE), en Costa Rica y Panamá

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Enfoques de adaptación basados en ecosistemas: fortalecer la evidencia e informar políticas: Transformar la evidencia en cambio, en El Salvador

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Knowledge and experiences from the 13th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

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Delivering climate finance at the local level to support adaptation: experiences of County Climate Change Funds in Kenya

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Financing local responses to poverty, climate and nature

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Four women farmers bend over to work their land

Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land

Blog, Aug 2019

A group of people huddle in deep, urgent discussion

Taking stock: how the LDCs became masters in climate activism and optimism

Blog, Jul 2019

Flags of countries around the world adorn pylons outside a conference venue

Leading organisations call on UN to support UK/Italy 2020 climate summit bid

News, Jul 2019

CBA13 participants speaking

CBA13: bringing key messages to the global stage

News, Jul 2019

The panellists sitting on stage at the event

London Climate Week: is the world ready with its emergency response?

Blog, Jul 2019

Three people gather to discuss a document one of them is holding in his hand

Climate action: let’s be bold in Bonn

Blog, Jun 2019

A flooded street in an informal settlement

To stay ahead of climate change, cities need to act now

Blog, Jun 2019

A huddle of people gather around one person to give advice and discuss negotiating tactics

Leading from the front: responding with urgency to the climate emergency

Event, Jun 2019

A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening

Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?

Blog, May 2019

A woman in Malawi carries a solar panel above her head through a forest path

Climate adaptation: its time is now

Blog, May 2019

People build temporary shelters on the edge of the Bay of Bengal following a cyclone and flooding

Why the UK parliamentary committee recommendations on international climate finance are so important

Blog, May 2019

Women collecting clean water at a water pump

Strengthening women and youth voices for climate action

Project, May 2019