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Storm watch for Cancun climate talks
… many developing countries want the vision to also address mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer and capacity building. 2. Adaptation Adaptation is sure to be another stormy issue in Cancun. The UNFCCC is …
Insight, 23 November 2010
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
Insight, 26 April 2017
The event was held in the Africa pavilion at the Paris climate summit (Photo: IIED)
COP21 side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries
… local communities' funding wishes. . @Vorindi on #Kenya 's county adaptation fund to deliver #climatefinance to the local level @IIED … change.  IIED is supporting work to  set up decentralised climate adaptation funds in Kenya and Tanzania, and Mali and Senegal . Funding … that was the first organisation to be accredited to both the Adaptation Fund and the GCF.  Huq said that this type of South-South …
News, 02 December 2015
Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… they impact on people, the planet and the economy. Ecosystem-based adaptation: a win-win formula for sustainability in a warming world? … world's capacity to adapt to climate change, and that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches should be harnessed as a priority.  EbA has … playing a key role in  ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation . Urbanising Thailand – a closer look; implications for …
Article, 02 January 2017
Hope from action
… heavy human and economic losses, and left no doubt for the need for adaptation planning. The representative from Pakistan said the floods in … Days addressed the impact of power relations between actors, and how adaptation planning can serve as a vehicle to ensure that the more … be channelled to the local level. Nepal has also pioneered “Local Adaptation Plans of Action”, as a counter to the top-down approach of …
Insight, 09 December 2011
This sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur, was funded by the Asian Development Bank. There are concerns omitting local people from decision-making processes can lead to climate funds not sufficiently representing local priorities (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level
Insight, 28 October 2015
Debra Roberts will become the latest 'outstanding woman in development' to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture
Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture
… for putting Durban on the map as a frontrunner in climate change adaptation.  She led the Durban Adaptation Charter for Local Governments , developed and adopted during … climate change at the 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation, in 2013 Roberts is a regular contributor to Environment & …
News, 19 July 2016
Pick-up van packed with people and suitcases.
Climate-induced migration and vulnerability to modern slavery
… level.  Recommendations will include making climate finance for adaptation, resilience and loss and damage available to tackle …
Project, 17 September 2021
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Counting critically: SDG ‘follow-up and review’ needs interlinked indicators, monitoring and evaluation
Publication, 01 July 2016
A government scheme to employ people to build water management infrastructure has supported Ethiopian smallholders and saved water for growing crops. (Photo: Stephan Bachenheimer / World Bank)
CBA13: Local solutions inspiring global action
… needed for climate finance to flow at scale to support effective adaptation? This  interview further discusses what's in store . Adaptation technology:  how can long-term and existing, as well as the …
Event, 01 April 2019