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Picture of the Punakha Dzong, an administrative centre in Bhutan. A river runs past it in the foreground and wooded hills rise behind it.
Low carbon resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change?
… Instead of talking about climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation, developed and developing national governments – including … Climate change … resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change? …
Insight, 22 January 2013
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal and Pakistan: Q3 Report - Meta-analysis findings from feasibility testing phase
… feasibility testing of TAMD across four countries- Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, and Pakistan. Participating countries are at different stages of … in stakeholder roles in decision making? (c) How has the theory of change been defined? (d) How are the indicators selected? (e) What are … Climate change … Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) in Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal …
Publication, 01 February 2014
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
… key global summits – on finance, on sustainable development and on climate – will define the ambition and direction of this agenda for the … event for establishing a new international agreement for climate change. Organised with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) , … policies into action. These include, for example, Kenya's County Adaptation Fund, the role of local governments in Nepal, and the role of …
Insight, 28 August 2015
Adaptation in Bangladesh: notes from the field
… Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. Last year, the British global risks analysis … as part of a group of delegates to the Fifth Annual Community-Based Adaptation Conference , I travelled to Gaibandha District to see for … Climate change … Adaptation in Bangladesh: notes from the field …
Insight, 29 March 2011
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Amplifying children's voices on climate change: the role of participatory video (PLA 60)
… Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time with the greatest … are rarely heard in policies and programmes for climate change adaptation. The motivation to amplify children’s voices around their … formed the basis for a participatory video action research project in Nepal, 2008. The project explored if the process of filmmaking – rather …
Publication, 01 December 2009
The entrance to Le Bourget, the venue for the UN climate talks (COP21) (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons via Flickr)
LDC climate action plans estimated to cost US$93.7 billion per year
… proving to be among the most determined, committed and proactive on climate change. Almost all the LDCs have outlined how they plan to contribute to … financial support required to successfully implement both the adaptation and mitigation components of LDC INDCs. The method used to … Climate change … LDC climate action plans estimated to cost US$93.7 billion per year …
News, 30 November 2015
A storm rages over downtown Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in the early evening (Photo: Jeff_Holmes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Insight, 04 April 2014
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 … so they do not wash away every rainy season, as used to happen in Nepal. Local governments also can provide seed funds for local level …
Insight, 16 February 2015
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
Insight, 30 April 2015
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019