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A screenshot of Dragons Den winner Ineza Grace speaking at the closing plenary.

Event

Daily updates: CBA14 – The 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change

An irrigation pond.

Event context

CBA14: From local solutions to global action

A worker cleans a train

Blog

Coronavirus and climate change are two crises that need humanity to unite

An irrigation pond.

Event context

CBA14: From local solutions to global action

An orange sky

Blog

How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?

Article

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

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

A beach with cows

Project

Supporting LDCs to develop long-term strategies

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

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

Researchers talk to villagers in Sheikhuwal village in rural Pakistan

Project

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Publications

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La crisis climática: cuatro formas de fortalecer el diseño de políticas públicas a través de la evaluación

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Transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Lessons from Ethiopia’s progressive climate policy

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Building local impact for better access to climate finance

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Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance

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Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique subsaharienne

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How have decentralised natural resource management institutions evolved over 20 years? Summary of findings from Mali, Niger, Sudan and Ethiopia

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Settlement in Solomon Islands.

How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds

Blog, Nov 2020

Chapter summary: A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation

Article, Nov 2020

Nature landscape of a forest and a lake.

Author Q&A: A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation

Interview, Nov 2020

People participating in a workshop.

Development and Climate Days 2020

Conference, Nov 2020

Aerial view of Honiara, Solomon Islands

Engulfed by the sea: the loss and damage from climate change

Blog, Nov 2020

Community group siting in a circle and listening to a speaker

Raising ambition in locally led action for 2021: calling for business unusual

News, Nov 2020

Palm trees line a view of the coast

Supporting country programming processes for accessing the Green Climate Fund

Project, Nov 2020

Joe Biden stands speaking into a microphone in front of a large United States flag

What does the Biden win mean for climate action?

Blog, Nov 2020

Head and shoulders images of four people.

Debt swaps for climate and nature: innovation for resilience? Make Change Happen podcast episode 8

Podcast, Nov 2020

Two people planting rice.

Reforming climate finance to support locally led adaptation: principles for moving to business unusual

Webinar, Nov 2020

Groups of people gather around tables and talk

Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days

News, Nov 2020

IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020

Events, Nov 2020