Climate change

We create, share and use knowledge to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and community adaptation to climate change

Cities and climate change

How IIED is working to understand and reduce climate change vulnerability in urban areas.

The Philippines Homeless People's Federation works with the local government to identify land for low-income residents that is less vulnerable to flooding, such as in Iloilo (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
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Investments in community infrastructure – like this canalside walkway in Bangkok – can help to build resilience for low-income urban residents. Funding for this type of local improvement should be a priority for climate change financing (Photo: Ruth Mcleod)
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Semarang, Indonesia: One of the ten initial cities in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, Semarang has been a pioneer in integrating climate change resilience into city planning and management. (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
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Global climate law, policy and governance

How IIED is helping Least Developed Countries and other vulnerable developing countries to achieve equitable and ambitious outcomes in global climate decision making

Negotiators, including representatives of the Least Developed Countries, at the UNFCCC conference centre in Bonn in January 2014 (Photo: IIED)
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Southern African parliamentarians on a fact finding mission to the Kuyasa Clean Development Mechanism project in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Least Developed Countries map from Wikimedia Commons 2006
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Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity

How IIED is building capacity to act on the implications of climate change for equitable and climate resilient development in the drylands

Stormclouds gather over the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, where aid agencies provide emergency help, but long-term planning is needed to deal with wider environmental stresses (Photo: Hadi Jaafar, Diane Archer, Akram Hajj Hassan and Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
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A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)
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The growing economic centre of Merti town on the Ewaso Ng’iro river, arid lands of Kenya (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu)
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