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From global ambition to country action: Bhutan steps towards low-carbon climate-resilient development
… Many LDCs are working towards strengthening their national policy and legislative frameworks to implement climate action and play their part in global ambition to achieve the … success stories and challenges about how implementation and climate action unfold at the national level. This case study on Bhutan …
Publication, 01 October 2018
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Economic impact of climate change in Namibia, The
… Africa as a whole to be “one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity. Climate … and declining wages. But at present these predictions gain little policy traction in southern African countries. The multilateral climate … Economic impact of climate change in Namibia, The …
Publication, 01 November 2007
A delegate at COP18 in Doha (Photo: N. Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit
… Doha talks A blog by Camilla Toulmin, entitled Seven ways to reignite climate action after dismal Doha Video updates IIED senior fellow … and development practitioners to debate the central theme of climate change adaptation (CCA). Sessions at COP 18 focused on learning-by-doing, … Climate change … IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit …
Article, 20 December 2012
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L'adaptation au titre de la CCNUCC
… ECBI Policy Brief … Climate change … L'adaptation au titre de la CCNUCC …
Publication, 01 June 2010
A farmer’s market, Fort Portal, Uganda
Announcing our new strategy: Make Change Happen
… ‘Make Change Happen’ is our response to what we see as the critical challenges of our time: the crisis of climate change, felt around the world but most strongly by low income … for tackling global challenges, bringing diverse perspectives to policy debates, and Pursuing yet greater excellence in our research …
Insight, 08 April 2019
The Asian Development Bank is helping herders in Mongolia combat the consequences of climate change by training them to cultivate fodder or animal feed that is more resilient towards extreme weather changes, using plants that are adapted to the area (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Finance for inclusive investment in climate resilient development
… solutions that we desperately need to ensure inclusive investment in climate-resilient development (CRD). I see this outcome as potentially … for inclusive investment in CRD: Kenya has established a County Adaptation Fund (PDF)  to deliver finance for investment in local adaptation priorities. In Rwanda the national climate change fund, FONERWA , works with the national development bank to …
Insight, 03 August 2015
Climate adaptation: old wine in new bottles?
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 … and influence in local, district, national, and international policy and planning decisions. The project showed that participatory …
Publication, 01 December 2009
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015
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 … it has created a bias. Taking a bottom up perspective We argue that climate finance should start at the bottom with the users of this … understanding how poor people are already responding to climate change, and what these costs are, the appropriate national and …
Insight, 16 February 2015