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Mangroves and seagrasses in Lembongan, Indonesia. Conserving mangrove forests be part of ecosystem-based adaptation, protecting coastlines and biodiversity (Photo: Steven Lutz/Blue Forests, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Help pilot the navigator of tools for ecosystem-based adaptation
… adaptation (EbA) has huge potential to help people manage climate change impacts. There is a growing array of tools and methodologies … identify appropriate tools for incorporating EbA into their climate adaptation plans, IIED, IUCN, UNEP-WCMC and GIZ have developed … Climate change … Natural resource management …
News, 15 January 2019
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Decentralising climate adaptation funds in Mali
… The aim of climate funding is to enable the countries most affected by climatic change and variability to adapt and become more resilient. Like most … floods. Adaptation must take place at the local level, but at present climate change funds are managed at the national level.~ ~As part of the … Climate change …
Publication, 01 November 2015
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
… This was the second series of London Climate Action Week events this year, with IIED again taking … in July 2020 . This week of events fell on the dates when the UN climate summit (COP26) was originally scheduled, and was a major … crucial for us to learn from their work, so we can collectively make change happen. IIED and partners contributed at the following events: …
Event, 17 November 2020
Communities adapting to climate change can learn from revolutionary conservation method
… and colleagues studied examples of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, a name for systems developed over the past three decades to … be critical to the success of communities as they strive to adapt to climate change.” CBNRM is based on an incentive-driven notion that assumes that … Climate change …
News, 03 May 2012
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
… and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and … project delivered significant adaptation benefits by improving the management of fishery resources. For example, the project improved community resilience and adaptive capacity by introducing sustainable fishery practices and …
Project, 12 June 2018
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Mainstreaming adaptation benefits for Bangladesh’s freshwater ecosystems
… The unplanned climate change adaptation benefits of a programme focused on Bangladesh’s … included in the country’s ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and climate change responses. The ‘incentive-based hilsa conservation programme’ was … Climate change …
Publication, 01 August 2018
Two women standing in a forest.
Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize
… an agroforestry plot to restore landscape diversity and enhance climate-resilient landscapes, they were welcomed into the programme. How … ‘planting-baskets’ to restore landscape diversity and enhance climate-resilient livelihoods). Its objective is that opportunities for … plants but local farmers still face the daunting prospect of climate change: hotter temperatures, less rainfall and more extreme weather …
Insight, 18 March 2024
A view of the migrant informal community of Marathahalli, Bengaluru
‘Participatory’ adaptation plans aren’t working for migrants in cities
… As cities across the global South grapple with climate change, many are designing plans to deal with escalating climate impacts including erratic precipitation and unpredictable shifts … Climate change …
Insight, 09 May 2019
A green mangrove forest on the edge of a lake, with the roots of the mangroves exposed
Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries
… in calling for actions that address the loss of nature together with climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change … ways in which nature features in these plans – from improving forest management for carbon sequestration, to introducing climate-resilient … Climate change … Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries …
Insight, 31 August 2021
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
… Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a working group report that highlighted … networks deliver action on disaster risk reduction, disaster risk management, humanitarian relief, disaster response, development, and … Climate change …
Insight, 05 September 2022