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Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research results from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities project, Senegal
… 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 … Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing policy. Research …
Publication, 01 October 2018
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Adapting Cities to Climate Change: understanding and addressing the development challenges
… body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by … Adapting Cities to Climate Change: understanding and addressing the development challenges …
Publication, 01 May 2009
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Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic analysis
… some guidance to the policy-oriented researchers’ work on valuing climate change adaptation in developing countries. The objective of this paper is to … Climate change adaptation in developing countries: issues and perspectives for economic …
Publication, 01 May 2010
Seed industry ignores farmers' rights to adapt to climate change
… countries are losing one of their best hopes to limit the impacts of climate change because of growing corporate control of the seeds they plant. The … change,” says Jingsong Li of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy in China. “At the same time, this biological diversity is under … Climate change … Seed industry ignores farmers' rights to adapt to climate change …
News, 07 September 2009
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Community Champions: Adapting to Climate Challenges
… presented at the fourth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change which was held on 21-27 February 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. … Climate change … Community Champions: Adapting to Climate Challenges …
Publication, 01 December 2010
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
… fellow Saleemul Huq, also director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), provided regular vlogs from Lima … in climate change negotiations South Asia - vulnerable region and adaptation strategies  Side event Date: Tuesday 2 December Speakers:  … Climate change … IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) …
Event, 01 December 2014
Farmers in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces respond to climatic adversity by using their own innovations and biocultural heritage
China's farmers innovate to adapt to climate change
… and pollution, by ceasing to use chemical farm inputs. Planting for Change highlights the critical need to safeguard not only the landscapes … and improve this diversity to enhance food security in the face of climate change. IIED produced the film in association with the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, which has worked with the farmers in Guangxi since 2000 through …
Insight, 17 December 2013
D&C Days 2018: around 350 policymakers, researchers and development practitioners came together for discussions and debates focused on the interface between development and climate change (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
"Follow the science": Least Developed Countries Group lead negotiator
News, 10 December 2018
Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
… of the Parties (COP19) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Warsaw on 11 November 2013. The two-week … in the middle weekend of COP19. On Saturday, delegates discussed adaptation practitioners’ experiences from the field. The day closed … Climate change … IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19) …
Event, 01 January 2015
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Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility
… Chapter 6 of "Population dynamics and climate change". This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of … of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail … Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility …
Publication, 01 January 2009