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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)

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Money where it matters: designing funds for the frontier

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Improving the governance of rural water points in Wajir County

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Lessons from Piloting the Decentralised Climate Finance Programme, Tanzania

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Urban ARK 21: From global climate narratives to local adaptation decisions

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Climate crisis planning: a toolkit for building local urban resilience

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Ecosystem-based climate adaptation: building on the positives in El Salvador

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Pump irrigation on a farm in Cooch Behar, in the Indian state of West Bengal (Photo: ICIMOD Kathmandu, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Map vs territory: tackling the mismatch between adaptation policy and on-the-ground experience

Interview, Mar 2019

Participants at the 2018 European Capacity Building Initiative workshop for new negotiators from least developed countries countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Women in the UN climate negotiations: are we tipping the balance?

Blog, Mar 2019

Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community

Blog, Mar 2019

Twitter chat planned on scaling up local climate action

News, Mar 2019

This farmer in India's Maharashtra state gets weather alerts, advisories about pests and market information via his mobile phone (Photo: Borlaug Institute for South Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)

CBA13: unlocking the power of technology to build climate resilience

Interview, Feb 2019

Ethiopia has suffered severe droughts in recent years. Community projects to managing water resources are vital to building climate resilience (Photo: Freweni Gebre Mariam/IFPRI, Creative Commons via Flickr)

CBA13 FAQ: how you can participate

Article, Feb 2019

CBA12 participants wave goodbye after another successful event (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)

CBA conferences: what's so good about them?

Article, Feb 2019

The nuts of the Babacu palm have a high oil content and many uses. The Babacu Fund is delivering climate finance to landless palm nut collectors in the Brazilian Amazon (Photo: JcPietro, Creative Commons via Wikimeida)

CBA13: Adaptation finance – show us the money

Interview, Feb 2019

CBA13 will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's rapidly growing economic centre (Photo: Juha Uito, Creative Commons via Flickr)

CBA13: hands-on workshops and interactive dialogue

Article, Feb 2019

Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document

CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action

Blog, Jan 2019

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