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Funding adaptation in Kenya’s drylands
Publication, 01 March 2017
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
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Decentralising climate finance to reach the most vulnerable
… countries have committed to ensuring more than $100 billion of climate finance flows to developing countries each year by 2020, with the Green Climate Fund being an important channel as it offers direct access to … architecture of decentralisation to establish sub-national climate change funds that invest global and national climate finance in support …
Publication, 01 October 2016
Climate activists march to the entrance of Georgetown University before President Obama's speech on climate change. Photo: 350.org via Flickr
IIED views on Obama's climate change plan
… of IIED "While Obama shows some political courage in initiating a US climate change strategy and acting to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions, … local governance for adaptation planning, developing new risk management tools and climate adaptation technology is helpful. Framing … IIED views on Obama's climate change plan …
News, 25 June 2013
Pastoralists in Isiolo County mapping community resources, such as water sources and good grazing areas. This pilot project developed a mechanism that allows local people to identify investments that can build their resilience to climate change. (Photo: James Pattison/IIED)
Award win highlights collaboration for Kenya climate resilience
… sector. The initiative is enabling Kenya's county governments to use climate information and access climate finance in support of … consortium works under the leadership of the  Kenyan National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) , with technical support provided by  … the consortium and ensuring lessons are informing national climate change and finance policy. The project started in Isiolo County …
News, 15 April 2015
The 2015 Development & Climate Days at COP21 will focus on "tough talk on poverty and climate"
2015 Development & Climate Days: tough talk on crucial transitions
Event, 23 November 2015
Cua Van floating village, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Copyright Suzanne Fisher Murray
Building one village’s resilience to climate change starts with a cave
… A project is aiming to improve the community’s disaster risk management strategies so that when the next storm hits, they have a plan … of the project working to develop the community’s resilience to climate change managed by UN Environment Programme and the Vietnam Institute of … Climate change … Building one village’s resilience to climate change starts with a cave …
Insight, 19 April 2012
Gambia is hoping to develop its tourism industry, but coastal areas are environmentally fragile and threatened by erosion. (Photo: Nick Brooks, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: The Gambia expects solid financial commitment at Paris climate talks
Article, 24 November 2015
This climate change project in a village in Senegal established a borehole and solar panels to improve water access during the dry season (Photo: Dansira Dembele/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Seeing clearly: transitioning to transparency at COP24
Insight, 01 December 2018
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GIS – what can and what can’t it say about social relations in adaptation to urban flood risk?
… knowledge on risk informs location-based approach to adaptation to climate risk. It allows managing city-wide coordination of adaptation … Quantitative assessments dominate GIS applications in flood risk management, for instance to demonstrate the distribution of people and … review is to identify the type of social relations that shape adaptive capacities towards urban flood risk which cannot be identified …
Publication, 09 February 2018