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Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate?
… extent to which urban regeneration can be considered a climate change adaptation option, and explores the potential challenges and outcomes in using urban regeneration as an adaptation strategy for enhancing health resilience, such as through … the potential of urban regeneration, in particular of housing, as an adaptation measure and to better understand what core factors constitute …
Publication, 01 August 2015
The case study for Manizales, in Colombia, in a new book edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite focuses on innovative community-oriented environmental policy and a commitment to disaster risk reduction (Photo: Melissa Delzio, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can we transform our cities?
… but also integrate disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and low greenhouse gas emissions.   Cities on a finite planet … city. These assessments show the possibilities for 'transformative adaptation' that not only builds resilience within the city but … between good development, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. All three are about identifying and acting on local risks …
Insight, 19 April 2016
Song, dancing & tomatoes were on the agenda when a CBA9 field trip was hosted by the Likia Conservancy Self-Help Group, which showed participants its fish farming and beehives (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
… explore at first hand issues related to community-based adaptation to climate change, particularly with regards to measuring and enhancing effective adaptation. The trips included visiting Lake Naivasha to see sustainable … IIED staff and our partners exploring issues around community-based adaptation. Conference organisers African Centre for Technology Studies …
News, 26 April 2015
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TAMD Scoping Phase Summary Report
… The scale of climate change adaptation investments demands robust assessments of the expected and actual returns. It is important to know how effectively adaptation keeps development on track and also how equitably adaptation costs and benefits are distributed. It is anticipated that …
Publication, 01 May 2013
A poster at COP25
COP25: the morning after
… needed to “address” loss and damage will be carved out of money for adaptation. Clever accounting might give the impression that new and … needs have been met. But in reality, this spells less money for adaptation and insufficient money for loss and damage. Prepare for hard … the ambition needed to match the scale of the climate emergency, adaptation and resilience must be at its heart: a COP that focuses on …
Insight, 13 January 2020
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Resilience building in Tanzania: learning from experiences of institutional strengthening
… from local government efforts to strengthen institutional capacity adaptation and development planning. …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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Higher ambition for lower temperatures: what LDCs could achieve at COP24
… reduce emissions; and greater climate finance to, for example, fund adaptation action and offset climate-related loss and damage. …
Publication, 01 November 2018
The UK government has warned that flooding is likely to become more frequent as the country’s climate changes (Photo: Dachlan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Celebrating 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act: an influential law beyond its borders
… to address this problem and addresses climate change mitigation and adaptation through a coherent and ambitious framework. With a long-term … monitoring and review. Held to account The act’s five-year cycles of adaptation programmes ensures the impacts of climate change and … government is on track to meet the carbon budgets, and biannually on adaptation progress. It also requires the government to respond. This …
Insight, 26 November 2018
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Sumaq Kausay and Ayllu: Quechua values and worldviews for conservation and sustainable development in the Chalakuy Maize Park, Lares, Peru
… knowledge for biodiversity conservation, livelihoods and climate adaptation. …
Publication, 06 August 2021
Woman filling jerry cans with water
Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
… Change research group, was among those who recorded a message on adaptation for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue They should also put …
Insight, 04 May 2021