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Two children in a flooded field.
Supporting child-centred resilience to climate impacts
… The climate crisis threatens children around the world. The United Nations … risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change disproportionately affect children. Children are physiologically … wellbeing of children in these countries are at risk. Child-centred adaptation to climate change Between 2012 and 2021, the NGO Save the …
Project, 17 February 2022
Drylands landscape with cattle in the background
CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?
… A history of innovation The community-based adaptation (CBA) conferences have always pushed for innovation. When CBA began 16 years ago, the conversation on climate change was centred almost entirely on mitigation; we focused on … Climate change … CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature? …
Insight, 17 February 2021
A flooded village with damaged houses.
Practical lessons on implementing business unusual 
… Having recognised that business-as-usual climate responses were not fit for purpose in their countries, IIED’s … Countries (LDC) Group, launched the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) in 2018. Here, we outline what we … take time, commitment and energy and is a journey along a pathway for change that supports doing development and climate action differently …
Insight, 15 June 2022
Man in a mangrove forest
Striving for better: following LDC leadership in addressing the climate crisis
… Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity; never has the world … of dealing with the climate crisis. The LDC initiative for effective adaptation and resilience (LIFE-AR)  sets out a plan for implementing … – whether from the LDCs or others in the international community – working in the development and climate space. The principles …
Insight, 26 January 2021
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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2024
… FFPOs can be game-changing investors in landscape restoration, climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity and agrobiodiversity …
Publication, 31 March 2025
A woman writes on a poster. More women appear blurred in the background.
Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance
… And by excluding them from solutions to biodiversity loss and climate change, it also hastens the erosion of IPLCs’ diverse and rich knowledge … and organisations endorsing the principles for locally led adaptation . Supporting IPLC-led initiatives in nature and biodiversity … Climate change … Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance …
Insight, 13 July 2022
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, June/July 2022
… London Climate Action Week (LCAW) is an annual event, founded in 2019, that … across London and beyond to find practical solutions to climate change. In 2022, it took place from 25 June to 3 July. Throughout the … green, fair and resilient climate transitions', 'The road to COP27 on adaptation and ambition', 'Whole-of-society climate mobilisation' and …
Event, 25 June 2022
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… political events in 2019 marked key moments for influencing the climate action agenda, including this September’s UN Secretary-General’s … will be held accountable to the carbon emissions reduction and adaptation pledges made in 2015. Nations will be called on to raise … locally tested solutions for dealing with the impacts of climate change.  Debates covered practical ideas for getting finance to the …
Insight, 28 January 2020
A group of people stand on a bank next to a body of water.
LIFE-AR: Uganda roll-out progresses to district level, charts path for more countries to come on board
… least developed countries (LDCs) have contributed least to escalating climate change yet suffer the most from its impacts. Furthermore, traditional … and innovative Least Developed Countries Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) marks a radical shift towards … Climate change …
News, 30 October 2023
Aerial view on Sao Paulo showing different types of housing like sky scrappers and slums.
SECURe: Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience
… in low- and middle-income countries drives the accumulation of climate risk globally, and will continue to do so over the coming … recognised as complex systems where urban development and adaptation are shaped by dynamic socio-economic, environmental and … hours, while others depended on costly private water tankers. Climate change exacerbated these issues, causing flooding and the spread of …
Project, 01 April 2025