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CBA12: Local experience driving climate action

Achala C Abeysinghe (second left) recently spoke on a panel discussion at COP23 on Women Leading the World's Climate Agenda (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)

Blog

COP23 outcomes call for faster action and higher ambition to keep Paris on track

A popular feature of Development & Climate Days is the production of a giant illustration that highlights key points from the discussions over two days (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Article

Development & Climate Days 2017

Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?

A last-minute speaker change resulted in IIED participating in an all-male panel (or 'manel') at the UN climate summit (Photo: Anne Schulthess)

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Missing voices: let's hear women's experience of climate change

Workshop participants were briefed on the climate negotiating priorities of the Least Developed Countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

News

Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks

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

This illustration shows Earth encircled by digital networks. New digital data storage and sharing platforms are revolutionising financial operations (Image: Chani Goering, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Can blockchain unblock climate finance?

Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India: many villages traditionally administered local forests for sustainable benefits. (Photo: goldentakin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

Breaking down barriers to tenure-positive climate finance

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

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

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

Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Project

Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

UNFCCC negotiations session, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo Janna Tenzing/IIED)

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Facilitating greater representation of LDCs in the UNFCCC process

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)

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G04303

CBA 12 programme outline

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Building agile institutions and resilient communities

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Developing Myanmar’s National Climate Change Policy

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Desmatamento na Paisagem do Corredor da Beira: o papel de factores sócioeconomicos

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Sustainable and equitable solutions to climate change

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Guide de la transparence dans le cadre de la CCNUCC et de l’Accord de Paris

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

CBA12: Local experience driving climate action

Feature, Jun 2018

Enhancing resilience through adaptation: Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction committee members undertake flood prevention work in Ethiopia (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

CBA12 Day 3: How can we drive investment to locally-driven adaptation?

Article, May 2018

This illustration shows Earth encircled by digital networks. New digital data storage and sharing platforms are revolutionising financial operations (Image: Chani Goering, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Can blockchain unblock climate finance?

Blog, May 2018

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaking the World Economic Forum in 2017 (Photo: Jakob Polacsek/World Economic Forum, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: getting indigenous women's voices heard on the SDGs

Article, May 2018

The front cover of the Tiempo bulletin, issue no. 69

Tiempo

Project, May 2018

Policymakers in Kenya meet with researchers and smallholder farmers to learn about locally appropriate solutions to climate change (Photo: Timothy Mwaura, CIGAR)

Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state

Blog, May 2018

Farmers in Nepal. Nepal has introduced a range of strategies and policies to tackle climate change. (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Author Q&A: Trends in climate change legislation

Article, May 2018

Cover of the Trends in Climate Change Legislation book, depicting a set of scales

Book summary: Trends in Climate Change Legislation

Article, May 2018

Agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy and climate change is expected to impact crop yields and food security (Photo: Martijn.Munneke, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: What’s new about this year’s CBA event?

Article, May 2018

Community mapping in Mtandire informal settlement, Malawi. Federations of the urban poor can help residents to identify and communicate their development priorities. (Photo: SDI, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win

Blog, May 2018

Flooding in Fiji. Fiji's prime minister has said the his nation is in "a fight for survival" as climate change brings almost constant cyclones. (Photo: TC Evans/Fijian Government)

The Talanoa dialogue: sharing stories in Bonn to inspire ambitious climate action

Blog, May 2018

CBA12 11-14 June 2018 Lilongwe, Malawi

CBA12 Programme: innovative, engaging and productive

Article, May 2018