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View of informal housing by a lake, with a boat in it. In the background modern buildings and skyscrapers
Advancing inclusive and resilient urban development targeted at the urban poor
… Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.   It built skills in using climate change and disaster risk information for designing pro-poor … to exploring how infrastructure and nature-based approaches to adaptation can complement each other. Natural solutions can complement … Climate change …
Project, 07 February 2022
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
Event, 02 December 2018
Cover for 10030IIED.pdf
Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based natural resource management in southern Africa
… natural resource management (CBNRM) can inform and contribute to climate change adaptation at the community level, specifically to community-based … Climate change … Building climate change adaptation on community experiences: lessons from community-based …
Publication, 01 May 2012
Cover for 10744IIED.pdf
Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate?
Publication, 01 August 2015
Cover for 17104IIED.pdf
Assessing the effectiveness of climate adaptation
… As governments and other agencies spend more money on adaptation to climate change they want to know that their investments are effective — that … Climate change … Assessing the effectiveness of climate adaptation …
Publication, 01 October 2011
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
Cover for 17161IIED.pdf
Ensuring devolution supports adaptation and climate resilient growth in Kenya
… governance of natural resources is crucial for adaptive capacity and climate resilient growth — and nowhere more so than in Kenya’s arid and semiarid lands. Climate change will hit dryland communities and economies early and severely … adapt. But building on Kenya’s new constitution, a devolved Climate Adaptation Fund is being piloted in Isiolo County. It puts local …
Publication, 01 June 2013
Cover for 17622IIED.pdf
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Climate Resilient Livestock Production on Communal Lands project, South Africa
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as … an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. This report presents the … Climate change … the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Climate Resilient Livestock Production on Communal Lands project, South …
Publication, 01 June 2018
Approximately 80 heads of state and government attended the UN climate change conference in Marrakech in November 2016 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How can the poorest increase the influence of their climate diplomacy? 
… For national governments across the world, climate change is fast becoming one of the most pressing political challenges. … Increasingly, countries are integrating climate change into foreign policy, setting out how climate change links to other areas of national … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP23) …
Insight, 19 January 2017
A woman with a basket on her back picks tea leaves from a huge field surrounding her
Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate
… Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and encourage … only 46% of finance committed from international sources for climate adaptation was intended to give agency to local actors. Within this … Climate change … Policy and planning …
Insight, 27 May 2022