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Five farmers bend over tending rice crops in a flooded field, as another farmer watches while pushing a cart in the background.
Layering interventions is necessary to address loss and damage effectively
… loss and damage caused by these shocks but to recover at all. Climate adaptation measures like planting saline-tolerant rice cultivars will … in the Satkhira region experienced in 2009 – the once effective adaptation strategy of saline-tolerant cultivars became redundant as adaptation limits were reached and exceeded. So what does this mean? …
Insight, 05 September 2022
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Climate change and the blue economy: a sustainable and equitable blue economy can support climate action
… economy can play a significant role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Nature-based solutions, particularly blue carbon solutions, can contribute to both mitigation and adaptation while offering a range of other co-benefits for people, …
Publication, 01 November 2022
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Addressing urban inequalities II: discursive and material practices through scale
… role of funds-based mechanisms for addressing urban climate change adaptation and proposes a conceptual framework for evaluating urban … uncertainty, vulnerability and transformation needs of urban adaptation; a second, looking at community toilet provision in unserved …
Publication, 30 April 2023
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Gestion des adaptations pastorales dans les collines de la Mer Rouge, au Soudan: défi et dilemmes, La
Publication, 01 January 1994
Image of person standing at the top of a hill looking into the distance in Mauritius.
World’s least developed countries spend twice as much servicing debts as they receive in climate finance
News, 16 October 2024
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Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities
… in low-income and informal settlements. It seeks not to supplant adaptation priorities for low-income and marginalised communities living …
Publication, 15 April 2024
As a group people mill around a room and talk with one another at an event, an elevated TV screen shows the transcript of speakers at the event.
Making CBA events more accessible for disabled people
… online, IIED’s flagship International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change returned in person, hosted in … how to make disability inclusion an integral part of locally led adaptation. Include disabled people in event proceedings as panellists, …
News, 18 September 2023
A partly visible road and bridge due to muddy water covering half of it.
Loss and damage does not happen in a vacuum – it relates to power and politics
… International climate action remains woefully insufficient, and adaptation finance vastly inadequate, meaning international action has … ostensibly aims to support. These top-down development policies and adaptation interventions reproduce and reinforce existing … rights abuses and have been called “ new carbon colonialism ”. On adaptation, there is lots of evidence that top-down adaptation …
Insight, 16 August 2022
An aerial view of a town covered in floodwater.
How can loss and damage finance reach those enduring climate catastrophe?
… change that have not, cannot, or will not be avoided by mitigation or adaptation. As global heating escalates, so too do the losses and …
Insight, 13 September 2022
An overhead view of a group of fisherman standing in shallow water holding and pulling their fanned-out nets to catch fish.
COP29 must deliver ambitious climate finance deal
News, 08 November 2024