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Clearing flood damage in Fiji. Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is leading the development of a long-term climate vision for his country (Photo: Ben Beiske, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Long-term strategies under the Paris Agreement – key principles for good governance

Early morning in the Indonesian city of Jakarta reveals heavy air pollution, largely caused by its notorious traffic jams (Photo: Aaron Minnick/World Resources Institute, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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How tackling climate change could tackle inequality

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board met in Songdo, South Korea – a new high tech city built on reclaimed tidal mudflats (Photo: pegl, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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The Green Climate Fund is facing an opportunity – not a crisis

Map shows where the EbA Evidence and Policy project is being undertaken

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Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

A woman farmer in Malawi, surrounded by maize, examines her crop

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CBA12: Local experience driving climate action

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)

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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

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)

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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

A young Maasai herder sees a future in pastoralism (Photo: gritty.org)

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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

Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

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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)

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Developing Myanmar’s national climate change policy

Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

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Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

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)

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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)

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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)

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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Publications

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Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal ecosystems

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How integrated monitoring and evaluation systems can help countries address climate impacts

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Mainstreaming adaptation benefits for Bangladesh’s freshwater ecosystems

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Ecosytem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Reserach results from the Governance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Transforming Evidence into Change project, El Salvador.

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ecbi Regional Training Workshop Report – Francophone Africa

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ecbi - Regional Training Workshop Report - Anglophone Africa

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Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments

Project, Sep 2018

Kenyan ministry officials, agricultural researchers and farmers are testing a range of climate adaptation measures in lower Nyando district (Photo: V. Atakos/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Addressing the political and technical challenges of measuring adaptation

Blog, Sep 2018

Fiji Prime Minister Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama addressing the opening session of this week’s UN climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Governments must move to formal negotiations in Bangkok and start shaping the final rulebook

Blog, Sep 2018

A graphic which highlights the enefits of investing in national M&E systems for climate change

Webinar: Benefits of investing in national monitoring and evaluation systems

News, Aug 2018

Bhutan has committed to remain carbon neutral, mainly thanks to its high forest carbon sequestration capacity. Some people say that trees in Bhutan have legal rights, referring to the constitutional mandate for 60% of our land area to remain forested for all time. (Adam Brill, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Negotiating transparency for the Paris deal: next stop, Bangkok

Blog, Aug 2018

At CBA12 participants talked about the different ways their cultures create inclusive spaces to reach consensus-based decisions (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)

The power of storytelling: can traditions from the past find answers to the climate problem?

Blog, Aug 2018

IIED research associate Nathalie Seddon discusses nature-based solutions to climate change in a video interview (Photo: IIED)

Consensus grows on nature-based solutions to climate change, but challenges remain

News, Aug 2018

The front cover of the book ‘Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind: Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies’

Book summary: Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind – Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies

Article, Aug 2018

Our commitment to integrity and research excellence

Page, Jul 2018

Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)

Project, Jul 2018

Laos is heavily dependent on traditional agriculture and is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as flooding (Photo: Magalie L'Abbé, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How I learnt to make my voice count at the UN climate negotiations

Blog, Jul 2018

More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)

How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?

Blog, Jul 2018