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Stone Village Declaration (May 2016)
… assess the effectiveness of biocultural heritage-based approaches for climate change adaptation and to share experiences and key methods and tools for …
Publication, 01 June 2016
Children with backpacks walking along a path with a building on the left and a forest and looming hills behind.
Vietnam: project with children at its heart wins CBA6 Solidarity Grant
Insight, 10 May 2012
Venn diagram of LDCs
Least Developed Countries
… The leading international body for assessing climate change, the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) , … coordinates a group of fellows and international experts working on adaptation to climate change for LDCs as part of the CLACC (Capacity … Climate change …
Article, 30 April 2009
People building informal houses on stilts behind rising water.
IIED at WUF11
… rapid urbanisation and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. It is attended by representatives of national, … of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) The need for climate adaptation and mitigation is widely acknowledged and urban actors are …
Event, 26 June 2022
An image showing a group of women from Tongaradha village, Bangladesh, who saved more than 2,000 hectares of land and 500 households from flooding by rebuilding a 12km embankment and a 5km road. GCF money should be used for such innovative, community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change (Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Expediting direct access to the GCF for least developed countries
… flexible finance is directly available to communities most in need of adaptation finance. Accessing climate finance via the Green Climate Fund The Green Climate Fund (GCF) … community-driven projects in poor countries that will drive long-term change.   Direct access is the best bet for this because spending is …
Insight, 09 May 2016
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … are reached, Chinese businesses – the key driver of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable … navigate more than 240 tools and methods relevant to ecosystem-based adaptation. Indigenous peoples and local communities have been working …
Article, 27 December 2019
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… working to highlight the importance of decentralising development and climate finance – to make sure that funding gets to those that need it … The most effective way to reduce poverty and respond to climate change varies by location. This means that local actors – local … to limit greenhouse gas emissions and support climate change adaptation in developing countries. The fund has more than US$10.3 …
Article, 25 January 2017
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… this event, a group of participants grappled with the ways in which climate change will affect urban health, based on experiences of both the … and basic service provision), agents (including individuals and community organisations) and institutions (including the governance … Climate change … Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience …
Insight, 17 March 2014
Miners on a steep hillside mine tungsten
Secure land rights are now more important than ever
… significantly impacting and influencing responses to issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and achievement of the Sustainable … seen weakened environmental impact assessments, compressed or limited community consultations, the opening up of Indigenous lands and …
Insight, 29 January 2021
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to …
News, 27 April 2015