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African Climate Policy Centre director Fatima Denton speaks at the 2015 Development & Climate Days event at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Breaking out of the development silos
… The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are showing that action on climate change no longer needs to be seen as separate from development, … IIED's LDC Independent Expert Group (IEG) and director of the African Climate Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). … Climate change …
News, 22 March 2016
The closing plenary of the COP24 climate talks (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Reflections on Katowice – where does the Paris Agreement stand now?
… The UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24) were always going to be tough, … COP24 to unequivocally welcome the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s authoritative and comprehensive report on the implications of … action to decarbonise energy, industry, infrastructure, and land management systems are disastrous. The less stringent Paris Agreement …
Insight, 20 December 2018
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
… the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). Landmark agreements… At … indicators on: percentage of forest cover under sustainable management plans; percentage of forest cover owned by and, separately, … Climate change …
Insight, 10 October 2016
Song, dancing & tomatoes were on the agenda when a CBA9 field trip was hosted by the Likia Conservancy Self-Help Group, which showed participants its fish farming and beehives (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
News, 26 April 2015
The impact of drought on formerly arable land can be seen in Fuyuan county in southwest China's Yunnan province, an area known for its mild climate (Photo: Mingjia Zhou, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mountain communities being devastated by extreme climate impacts
… communities – are given special attention in a robust and binding climate treaty next month. These vulnerable mountain voices often go … for their water .  Mountain ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … Climate change … Natural resource management …
News, 18 November 2015
CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
Insight, 28 April 2015
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: outcomes of the Doha climate talks
… come out of the collective outcome from the talks, called the ‘Doha Climate Gateway’? There are three main things to come out of the … to vulnerable communities for the loss and damage caused by climate change. While we didn’t set up an international mechanism on … Climate change … COP18 Q&A: outcomes of the Doha climate talks …
Article, 12 December 2012
People sitting in a pasture
International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)
… the resilience of indigenous mountain peoples in the face of global change by revitalising biocultural heritage, particularly spirituality, … in similar mountain agroecosystems and facing increasingly pressing climate change, biodiversity, cultural and socio-economic challenges. … revitalisation of native fruit trees in Tajikistan, customary water management in China, the Potato Park biocultural territory in Peru, and …
Project, 27 June 2019
The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people. 
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
… as a valuable strategy to enhance food security in the face of climate change. The film opens with a profile of Peru's Potato Park, which is … foothills of Southwest China. Here indigenous communities  use water management systems that date back some 1,300 years, and  are setting up … Climate change … Natural resource management …
News, 30 August 2016
Cover for 17175IIED.pdf
Loss and damage: from the global to the local
Publication, 01 November 2013