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Event

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

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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

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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

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

Trust in climate finance requires meaningful transparency

Progressing the Global Goal on Adaptation — key issues

Principles for locally led adaptation

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

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

Building local impact for better access to climate finance

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Man in a mangrove forest

Striving for better: following LDC leadership in addressing the climate crisis

Blog, Jan 2021

Three farmers plan their crops on a steep hillside

Thorny issues: achieving a fair and equitable Global Goal on Adaptation

Blog, Jan 2021

Two women harvest crops in a field

Principles for locally led adaptation

Article, Jan 2021

Woman walks in the distance on barren, drought-ridden soil

LDC reflections of 2020: climate action, ambition and the path forward

Webinar, Jan 2021

Call for evidence: effective learning for climate adaptation and resilience

News, Jan 2021

Woman cultivating a garden with plants and palm trees.

Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey

Blog, Jan 2021

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IIED launches training webinar to help get climate finance to the local level

News, Jan 2021

Fishers in a small boat unpack the fish they have caught

Climate Adaptation Summit 2021

Conference, Jan 2021

A group of people pose for a picture, behind words that say "Gobeshona Global Conference 1"

Gobeshona Global Conference 1

Conference, Jan 2021

Indian women working a rice field

Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme

Project, Jan 2021

A large gathering of people sat on the floor outside

Participatory toolkits help rural marginalised communities make their voices heard on climate change

News, Jan 2021

Headshots of four people over a rainbow and the text '2021'

No time to lose – collective action for our common future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 9

Podcast, Jan 2021