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Participants at D&C Days took part in virtual reality game to help explain the complexities of making climate-related decisions (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Development & Climate Days 2016
Event, 12 November 2016
A herder with his livestock in Isiolo County, Kenya (Photo: Dorine Odongo/ILRI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Kenya
Project, 14 June 2018
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and is at the forefront of adaptation efforts. This homestead has been designed to offer flood protection (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Sharing knowledge to climb the adaptation ladder
Insight, 03 July 2015
Three girls wash their clothes in the Akaki river, near Addis Ababa. Climate change is affecting the quality of water in Ethiopia and much of the wastewater released by the industries and houses in Addis Ababa reaches the Awash River untreated, putting public health at risk (Photo: Beatrice Mosello/ODI, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new development banks help or hinder on climate change?
Insight, 06 July 2015
A borehole in Zambia, among the countries to have started thinking about NAPs, is developed for domestic water and irrigation as part of climate change adaptation measures (Photo: Pascal Manyakaidze via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level
… process. Starting small The first priority was to draw up National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) under a process that began in 2001 and was coordinated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In recent years, all of 48 have completed their NAPAs, … Climate change … Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level …
Insight, 11 March 2014
Bangladesh rural families spend US$2 billion on climate change – dwarfing government and international finance
… The IIED report ‘ Bearing the climate burden: how households in Bangladesh are spending too much ’ … (6,608 taka) a year per family – on addressing the impacts of climate change. This is twice as much as the government and nearly 12 times the … °C above pre-industrial levels. Low-cost loans from formal financial institutions and microfinance NGOs also need to be more widely …
News, 19 September 2019
Cover for G00088.pdf
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into the World Bank's Operational Work Lessons learned from Adaptation To Climate Change In Bangladesh
… Document begins: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into the World Bank's Operational Work Lessons learned from … Climate change … Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into the World Bank's Operational Work Lessons learned …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Cover for G00022.pdf
Climate Change in Africa: Linking Science and Policy for Adaptation - Workshop Report
… for Environment and Development organised a one day workshop entitled Climate Change in Africa: Linking Science and Policy for Adaptation, held in the Royal Society, London, on the 30th of March … Climate change … Climate Change in Africa: Linking Science and Policy for Adaptation - Workshop …
Publication, 01 March 2006
An image showing local people building a house in a slum in Bolivia, where Shack Dwellers International has worked with authorities. Many Latin American cities are leading the way in working with community organisations (Photo: Shack Dwellers International, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Is community-based adaptation suited to cities?
… Cities present many challenges to climate change adaptation. City governments must face up to addressing the risks that … Climate change … Is community-based adaptation suited to cities? …
Insight, 26 April 2016
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
… Terry Cannon, Saleemul Huq and Angela Milligan Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change brings together those working in the fields of disaster risk … PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change …
Article, 01 December 2009