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

a woman planting rice

Event

CBA14: From local solutions to global action

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

Article

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

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)

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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Climate finance for hydropower

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Harnessing employment-based social assistance programmes to scale up nature-based climate action

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Building resilience in rangelands through a natural resource management model: Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy

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Initiative européenne pour le renforcement des capacités – ecbi Programme de formation et d'appui

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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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Learning to negotiate for climate action

Long read, Feb 2020

An open sewer runs in front of homes

City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge

Blog, Feb 2020

A road in Kibera informal settlement

Climate activism and cities: a shared agenda

Blog, Feb 2020

Social movements for climate justice

Blog series, Feb 2020

Women stallholders in small boats

CBA14: How you can help design the programme

Article, Feb 2020

View of a river

IIED calls on climate funds to help reframe hydropower

News, Feb 2020

a young man walks along an irrigation channel

Jobs, nature and the Green New Deal: lessons from the global South

Blog, Jan 2020

A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace

Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown

Blog, Jan 2020

women working in the landscape

New podcast looks at costs of climate action for people of Bangladesh

News, Jan 2020

A boat travelling along a canal

Registrations open for the 14th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)

News, Jan 2020

Wind turbines on the top of a hill

Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?

Blog, Jan 2020

A flooded house

2020: the year to get money where it matters

Blog, Jan 2020