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A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.
How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions
Insight, 11 April 2024
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Comprehensive Climate Impact Quantification (C-CIQ): an approach to co-developing policy and programmatic responses for climate risk management
… Across the world, climate impacts such as extreme heat and floods are destroying lives, … to the extent that they can no longer absorb the effects of climate impacts or adapt to climate risks. Climate-related loss and damage has consequences beyond … Climate change … to co-developing policy and programmatic responses for climate risk management …
Publication, 09 September 2024
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Tracking the money for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction
… The costs of disasters and the negative impacts of climate change are rising globally. Record numbers of extreme weather events, … finance, planning, environment and climate change, national disaster management agencies and relevant sectors, as well as international … Climate change … Tracking the money for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction …
Publication, 03 March 2023
Flooded shelter made with woods and branches. Palm trees behind
World’s most vulnerable people on track to get $11 each to adapt to climate change
… in finance to help people in the world’s poorest countries adapt to climate change, which was promised by richer countries at negotiations in … local communities to set their own priorities, such as improving the management of land and water resources so that the impacts of shock … Climate change … World’s most vulnerable people on track to get $11 each to adapt to climate change …
News, 02 November 2022
Landscape with lowe bushes, flowers and a hrose with hills in the background
Ecosystem-based adaptation: three ways evidence can influence policymakers
… (EbA) effectiveness  and to inform policies and actions for climate, nature and people. As this work drew to a close, IIED spoke … three organisations who are championing integrated approaches for climate and nature, like EbA, in China, Peru and South Africa. Their … and local communities who have done the least to cause climate change are bearing the brunt of its impacts. Yet many are investing …
Insight, 14 March 2023
A man watering plants in a garden.
Smallholder farmers: unsung giants of climate and nature investment
… a meeting to exchange lessons with his neighbouring farmers. Fighting climate change and biodiversity loss Florian takes immense pride in his work, as … pioneers farming approaches to help his family and community adapt to climate change impacts while also nurturing the landscape he loves.  He … Climate change …
Insight, 16 November 2023
Water tank made of stones
Working with nature to manage water resources in a changing climate
… Climate change is wreaking havoc on our water cycle, leading to unpredictable … and implement their own watershed plans. To facilitate sustainable management of Uganda’s water resources, the government adopts a decentralized management structure and delineates the country into four hydrological … Climate change …
Insight, 22 March 2021
Person walks on arid soils
Exposing the ‘hidden handbrakes’ blocking action to halt climate change
… Action to halt or reduce further climate change is being blocked by a range of ‘hidden handbrakes’ that the … and reinforced by complex audit, due diligence, and fiduciary risk management requirements, and Open competitive tenders or calls, often … Climate change … Exposing the ‘hidden handbrakes’ blocking action to halt climate change …
News, 18 April 2023
Small fishing boats just off the coast. Another boat on the beach in the foreground.
Incentives for coastal conservation and fisheries management
… Coastal resource management, conservation and restoration can support sustainable aquatic food systems, with long-term benefits for people, nature and climate. But these interventions often impose costs on coastal … stewardship by resource users, enabling or motivating behaviour change by reducing the associated costs or increasing the benefits. …
Project, 04 June 2024
New tool helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change
… to rainfall and temperature, to Malawi in Southern Africa where climate change threatens to increase both droughts and flooding. Funded by the … of Europe recently shows that nowhere is immune from the effects of climate change and we will all need to adapt.” Ruth Wolstenholme, … Climate change … helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change …
News, 10 August 2022