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Video updates from Saleemul Huq
Watch now: daily video updates from COP22
… Saleemul Huq is providing daily video reports from the UN climate talks. These can be viewed in the playlist above and on IIED's … Huq explains why his institute, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, hosts regular networking events on loss and … key areas of discussion, makes clear that loss and damage goes beyond adaptation, and highlights the elevation in importance of migration and …
Article, 04 November 2016
Climate change advocacy fund good news for poor countries
… big delegations”, said Sumaya Zakieldeen from Sudan’s national climate change negotiation team. “The coming period of negotiation under the … successful outcomes, such as the creation of an LDC Fund to support adaptation planning in the LDCs. However, although their negotiating … Climate change … Climate change advocacy fund good news for poor countries …
Insight, 08 September 2011
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
… sea level  and its coastline stretches along some 700 kilometres. Its climate is temperate, wet and the rainy season is heavy. The country has suffered a lot from impacts of climate change and rising sea levels will affect about one third of the country. … we emit a very little compared to the developed countries. Regarding adaptation, we are expecting adaption support, as our economy is …
Article, 24 November 2015
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CBA10 proceedings: enhancing urban community resilience
Publication, 01 May 2016
Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
… The 8th Community-Based Adaptation conference (CBA8) was my introduction to the world of … as the communications coordinator for the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) , I develop and execute the … Climate change …
Insight, 30 April 2015
Solar panels on a floating school, Bangladesh
Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds
… The Climate Investment Funds are intended to help developing countries pilot … institutional, and financial systems – for responding to climate change. The UK's Department for International Development (DFID)  has … climate resilience' in developing countries As National Adaptation Planning processes are beginning to unfold in many countries, …
Project, 17 December 2012
Solar-powered irrigated water pumps such as this one in Bangladesh can help villagers cope with unreliable rainfall patterns (Photo: Neha Rai/IIED)
Climate finance must reach poor families
… The existing debate about climate finance tends to start from the wrong end. Most of the attention … understanding how poor people are already responding to climate change, and what these costs are, the appropriate national and … channels for climate finance management and for delivery. Many of Bangladesh's social protection schemes, for example, already support …
Insight, 16 February 2015
Climate refugees of the future
… erosion. Erosion is nothing unusual in Bangladesh. But the threat of climate change has made the country much more vulnerable. Now Jalil, once a … has even said international migration is one of the country's major adaptation strategies.In December 2008 member states of the UN Climate … Climate change …
Insight, 30 April 2009
2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
… The film festival that was held as part of the 2009 Development and Climate (D&C) Days was a popular feature of the four-day event. The … film-makers. Many of the films demonstrated the impacts of climate change on vulnerable regions and population groups, as well as adaptation and action measures. Numerous film makers were present at D&C …
Article, 22 July 2010