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Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… in Addis Ababa, I have been close witness to the pressures that climate change has brought to Ethiopia, and how these pressures have worsened … ecosystems and landscapes – for example, integrated river basin management in Uganda, coastal mangrove restoration in the Pacific and … Climate change … Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community …
Insight, 06 March 2019
Vanuatu is one of the Least Developed Countries, and is increasingly affected by climate change. Here local people are constructing a river crossing using rocks and coral after flooding destroyed a bridge (Photo: 350.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs
Insight, 22 April 2015
Nature landscape of a forest and a lake.
Author Q&A: A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
… Hannah Reid is a consultant with IIED's Climate Change research group and biodiversity team. Alongside Amanda Bourne, … With COVID-19 reminding us of our dependence on the sustainable management of the natural world, IPBES highlighting the dire state of … Climate change …
Article, 23 November 2020
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MGNREGS: Integrated watershed management and climate resilience
… Climate change … MGNREGS: Integrated watershed management and climate resilience …
Publication, 13 January 2022
Five men and women wearing suits sit at a long table with microphones. The tables reads "COP27"
COP decision on loss and damage: two steps forward, one step back
… The three-decade long fight of countries made vulnerable to climate change by the actions of developed countries has finally come to an end … People such as Saleemul Huq of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) , who have been pushing for this … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP27) …
Insight, 22 November 2022
Women fetching water at a water kiosk
Supporting adaptation through local-level climate finance: lessons from Kenya
… Initially piloted in five counties between 2011-18, the County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) is being scaled out to new areas, including Kenya’s … September 3, 2019 Investments included supporting customary range management institutions and building and/or rehabilitating sand dams, … Climate change … Supporting adaptation through local-level climate finance: lessons from Kenya …
Insight, 24 September 2019
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Enhanced Direct Access to climate finance: "I wish I knew that at the start!"
… There is a significant need for climate finance to reach the local level so that communities, … local NGOs are equipped to act on their own priorities to adapt to climate change. Climate funds like the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are a crucial … Climate change … Enhanced Direct Access to climate finance: "I wish I knew that at the start!" …
Event, 01 July 2022
A woman bends over to tend to rows and rows of small trees being grown
Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa
… The world faces a triple and interconnected crisis: the climate emergency, rapid biodiversity destruction and entrenched … the barriers to private sector engagement and investment in climate change, especially adaptation.    The programme introduces delegates to … may need to change and strengthen their investment cases via active management of climate investment; and assessments and management of …
Project, 01 September 2021
Mangrove roots
Tools for ecosystem-based adaptation: new navigator now available
News, 18 September 2019
An aerial view of dozens of shack housing in close proximity, with colourful roofs
Bridging the urban adaptation finance gap
… and resilience finance research’. Finance is failing The UN climate negotiations at COP26 underlined the need to increase and … finance mechanisms to provide a more inclusive and effective climate change response. The chapter on adaptation in cities and human … with a perceived lack of technical, financial, institutional and adaptive capacity at local government level has compounded the urban …
Insight, 25 April 2022