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Women delivering a package to another woman, all wearing face masks.

Blog

Climate justice needs vaccine justice

Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets

Events

IIED and the 2021 ‘super year’

Drylands landscape with cattle in the background

Blog

CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?

Dr Tara Shine conducts an experiment for her televised lecture

News

Prestigious lecture by IIED chair now available worldwide

Women fishing in shallow water

Event

CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action

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)

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

Two women harvest crops in a field

Article

Principles for locally led 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

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

Indian women working a rice field

Project

Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme

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

Latest publications

Digital technologies for an inclusive, low-carbon future that puts people first

Poverty-centred local adaptation in Mozambique

Progressing the Global Goal on Adaptation — key issues

Principles for locally led adaptation

Trust in climate finance requires meaningful transparency

Knowledge and experiences from the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

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Headshots of four people over a treelined housing area

Loss and damage – recognising the costs of climate change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 10

Podcast, Mar 2021

Animation of a woman and a child walking side by side

Brutal realities of climate change loss and damage come to life in IIED animations

News, Mar 2021

Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands

Demanding attention for the loss and damage from climate change

Article, Mar 2021

View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background

Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?

Blog, Feb 2021

Youth looking at a landscape

Perspective of LDC youth: what COP26 outcomes will enhance global action on adaptation and resilience?

Blog, Feb 2021

Drylands landscape with cattle in the background

CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?

Blog, Feb 2021

Women fishing in shallow water

CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action

Event, Feb 2021

Man carrying rice on his back over farmland

How you can contribute to CBA15

Article, Feb 2021

Two people carrying bags on their head walk through a bridge over a river

Become a partner at CBA15

Article, Feb 2021

Canoes on a river

Register and secure your place for CBA15

Article, Feb 2021

Aerial view of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

China, ecological civilisation, and green economy vision: 2021 and beyond

Event, Feb 2021

Woman collects water from a well

Drought management in India: hostage to climate information governance

Blog, Feb 2021