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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)

Project

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)

Project

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)

Project

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Publications

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How climate finance can help repurpose hydropower

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Reimagining the climate finance system with digital technology

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Calling for business unusual: reforming climate finance

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Framing and tracking 21st century climate adaptation

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European Capacity Building Initiative – ecbi Training and Support Programme

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Por una distribución más equitativa del costo del cambio climático

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A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"

Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now

Blog, Dec 2019

Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert

Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation

Interview, Dec 2019

People in boats

CBA14: From local solutions to global action

Event, Dec 2019

Tara Shine is photographed smiling next to boxes on which is written 'climate action'

Time to Shine: IIED appoint new trustee chair

News, Dec 2019

A house on stilts, surrounded by flood water

Politics at play at the UN climate talks? The LDCs don’t have time for games

Blog, Dec 2019

UN climate change conference (COP25)

Collection, Dec 2019

Two women look out over the rising sea water

COP25 must ensure help for the countries most affected by the climate crisis

News, Dec 2019

IIED and partner events at COP25

Event, Nov 2019

Close-up of a group of young climate demonstrators

Acting on the planetary emergency

Blog, Nov 2019

People walking down a flooded road

D&C Days 2019: five paths to a climate-resilient future

Article, Nov 2019

A man pointing to a list on a flipchart

Climate finance not reaching the local level

Article, Nov 2019

People planting seedlings in water

Towards better assessment of adaptation results

Blog, Oct 2019