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Men survey a flooded road in Kenya.
Rich nations fail to meet 8 climate-finance pledges analysis shows
… should be “new and additional” finance balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation activities. They made additional pledges about …
News, 26 November 2012
Cover for G02818.pdf
Participatory three-dimensional mapping for disaster risk reduction (PLA 60)
… natural hazards. Practitioners often merge CBDRR with community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA) as the ability of people to face … Terry Cannon and Angela Milligan. Keywords: CBA, climate change, adaptation, participation, DRR, disaster risk reduction. To read the …
Publication, 01 December 2009
Cover for 17517IIED.pdf
Watered Down? A review of social and environmental safeguards for large dam projects
… And some are being built in the name of climate change mitigation and adaptation. New sources of finance – from China and private banks …
Publication, 01 April 2014
Participants at D&C Days took part in virtual reality game to help explain the complexities of making climate-related decisions (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Development & Climate Days 2016
… of large numbers of people opting for migration as an alternative to adaptation. Also on Sunday, IIED organised a session on  ' Legislating … Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  and Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extreme Disasters (BRACED) . About D&C Days D&C … eradicate poverty by 2030. The programme featured sessions focused on adaptation and finance, participatory processes and livestock systems …
Event, 12 November 2016
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
… – such as D&C Days, CBA (our annual workshop on community-based adaptation ) or Rio – I am struck by the huge respect and admiration in … and forest governance, to indigenous peoples' knowledge in building adaptation strategies, to fitting forests into the Sustainable … has been a steady hand both in the COP process and also putting Local Adaptation Plans of Action and National Adaptation Plans of Action into …
Insight, 11 December 2014
Political leaders, experts and civil society representatives from the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
What do the Least Developed Countries want from COP21?
News, 25 November 2015
Cover for 10024IIED.pdf
Haramata 55: Bulletin of the drylands
… In this, the last issue of Haramata, we focus on adaptation to climate change with articles on a range of projects and …
Publication, 01 May 2010
Cover for 10590IIED.pdf
Not only climate change: mobility, vulnerability and socio-economic transformations in environmentally fragile areas in Bolivia, Senegal and Tanzania
Publication, 01 February 2011
Cover for 17100IIED.pdf
Scoring fast-start climate finance: leaders and laggards in transparency
Publication, 01 September 2011
The Retiro district of Buenos Aires features affluent shopping and business areas close to a large shanty town where many homes don't have running water (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Urbanisation and the environment
… on ' Population dynamics and climate change ' and ' The demography of adaptation to climate change '. Read  Environment & Urbanization , the w …
Project, 16 July 2015