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CBA14 closing: UK minister urges countries to allocate more finance to nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change
… solutions could provide around a third of the most cost-effective climate change mitigation that we need by 2030, while also helping to reverse … that are happening.  “The fact that they attract just 3% of global climate investment makes absolutely no sense at all so we're urging … Climate change … to allocate more finance to nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change …
News, 25 September 2020
Boji Drug Store: financed by the European Union through the Community Development Trust Fund (Photo: John Nyangena)
Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
… Mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) were set up to enable climate vulnerable countries … piloted by the Adaptation Consortium  under the National Drought Management Authority and with finance from UKaid. It supports 'public … different ways, can synergistically deliver funds to strengthen the adaptive capacity at local level in line with Kenya's devolved …
Insight, 04 December 2016
A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
… of IIED held two strikingly hopeful moments: the Paris Agreement on climate change and the launch of Agenda 2030 . Since then, some other instances … positive change have followed, most notably the upsurge in worldwide climate activism .  But while 2022 provided grounds to hope that energy … Climate change …
Insight, 01 September 2022
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Planning ahead: how the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action
… MGNREGS is going some way to help communities in India cope with climate impacts , if the scheme integrates climate risk information in … it has the potential to increase communities’ resilience to climate change by taking early action to address climate impacts.  IIED and the … allows the community to access  data on MGNREGS natural resource management assets, such as where the assets are, and who is benefiting. …
Insight, 05 January 2022
A group meeting on climate change on boat run by the organisation Shidhulai in Natore, Bangladesh (Photo: Tony Stonehouse/IIED)
Developing nations strengthen ability to demonstrate effective climate change adaptation
… Adaptation Measuring Development (TAMD) framework to demonstrate if climate finance has been well spent and that the climate vulnerability … for funders and decision makers on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation. TAMD is launched this week at the end of a workshop … government to track the climate resilience of its Sustainable Land Management Programme (SLMP-1), which it implemented in 2008 to trial a …
News, 27 February 2015
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Shared vulnerabilities? Connecting climate and health in cities: Make Change Happen podcast episode 7
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our … public health crises and the risks of climate change in cities ; it forms part of our efforts to observe and … urban communities and other local-level actors in the prevention and management of health emergencies.  Both climate change and public …
Article, 06 August 2020
Indian women working a rice field
Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme
… is used to create rural infrastructure for natural resource management and agricultural activities, with the aim to strengthen … of the scheme towards poverty reduction is well documented, climate change has emerged as a major threat and could reverse these development … Climate change … Climate-resilient development …
Project, 07 January 2021
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Finance for resilience building and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenya: A comparative study of local and national managed funds
… Since the establishment of the Green Climate Fund, research interest on funding modalities to deliver … to the local level has grown exponentially. A key question is how climate change funding can be effectively channelled to support adaptation, … Climate change …
Publication, 01 July 2017
A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… As the risks of natural disasters due to climate change increase, insurance has been put forward as a potential way of … support them against a large-scale or regional risk, or a particular climate risk. Insurance companies have a better basis to assess the … Climate change … Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change …
Insight, 16 July 2015
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To stay ahead of climate change, cities need to act now
… that have high importance and urgently need action – for instance climate change adaptation,  low-carbon  cities and disaster risk reduction.   … have showed the importance of democratic processes and of land use management. Expanding serviced land for new housing can include … Climate change … To stay ahead of climate change, cities need to act now …
Insight, 04 June 2019