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A woman carrying groceries in the village of Bouwéré, Mali. Assessments looked at how women experienced resilience to climate disruption (Photo: P.Casier/CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
Insight, 18 July 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
Cover for G00063.pdf
Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Section 6: West Africa Region Section 6.3. Dakar Workshop Report
… Document begins: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION ON KEY RESEARCHABLE ISSUES SECTION … SECTION 6.3. DAKAR WORKSHOP REPORT ENDA Saleemul Huq and Hannah Reid Climate Change Group International Institute for Envir onment and … Climate change … Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Creating a communication buzz in Zimbabwe
News, 17 October 2011
Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
… How some of the world’s poorest farmers are coping with climate change The farmers of southern Bangladesh have seen it all: cyclones, … adversity. So IIED, with CLACC 1 — its network of experts working on adaptation in the poorest countries — is exploring community-based … Climate change …
Article, 03 October 2008
Cover for G03105.pdf
Strengthening Voices: How pastoralist communities and local government are shaping strategies for adaptive environmental management and poverty reduction in Tanzania’s drylands
… Across Tanzania, climate change is being felt in the changing patterns and intensity of rainfall, …
Publication, 01 June 2011
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate change summit. The stated aim of Habitat III is to agree a " new urban … London. He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on …
Event, 05 May 2016
COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
… sense that some much-needed momentum was amassing behind the need for climate action. In September, during the UN Climate Summit in New York, … , demonstrating their view that fighting the impacts of climate change is a shared responsibility. Then in the Bonn negotiations in … Agreement the strongest legal force possible, and ensuring climate adaptation language – along with clear means of implementation – made it …
News, 19 December 2014
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of climate change. Or cities that are keeping their greenhouse-gas emissions to a … in the common good now needs to be expanded to address climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as sustainable urbanisation. …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Cover for G00030.pdf
Summary Report of the Development and Adaptation Days at COP-10
… Development and Adaptation Days Bulletin A Summary Report of the Development and Adaptation Days at COP-10 Published by the International Institute for … Climate change … Summary Report of the Development and Adaptation Days at COP-10 …
Publication, 01 December 2004