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Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
… Climate change adaptation is “a journey, not a destination”, as our sage Sudanese … funds such as the Adaptation Fund , the Pilot Programme on Climate Resilience , and bilateral funded programmes are beginning to develop … Climate change … How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway? …
Insight, 06 December 2012
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to …
News, 27 April 2015
Cover for 17177IIED.pdf
Low-carbon resilient development in the Least Developed Countries
… It brings together three traditionally separate goals: reducing climate change emissions (mitigation), resilience to climate change (the adaptation side of climate change policy) and economic and social … Climate change …
Publication, 01 November 2013
A stone gabion constructed to control erosion across a gully in the Namaqualand region. (Photo: Halcyone Muller / Conservation South Africa)
EbA Evidence and Policy: South Africa
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. IIED, the International … Climate change … Ecosystem-based adaptation …
Project, 31 May 2018
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
News, 02 December 2016
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica
Project, 13 December 2018
Inspiring climate leaders, such as UNECA's Fatima Denton, are needed for Africa to tackle climate change (Photo: UNECA)
Africa moves ahead to tackle climate change
… The fourth conference on Climate Change and Development held in Marrakech, Morocco, last month, revealed … to share and discuss ideas for approaching the twin challenges of adaptation and mitigation. I found some of these especially striking: … Climate change … Africa moves ahead to tackle climate change …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Two women wearing traditional gowns stand in a maize field
EbA Evidence and Policy: China
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2022, IIED, … Climate change … Ecosystem-based adaptation …
Project, 13 June 2018
Close-up of a group of young climate demonstrators
Acting on the planetary emergency
… Warnings on the climate emergency have rung out clearly over the last year, voiced by … of the world – most often those nations least culpable for climate change.  Threats coming into sharp focus  The shape of the planetary … with the Least Developed Countries’ (LDCs) Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) . This initiative supports LDCs to …
Insight, 29 November 2019
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
… Countries are fast ratifying the Paris Agreement on climate change, which entered into force on 4 November 2016. Now comes the … the Department for International Development-supported County Climate Adaptation Funds in Kenya . A close look at these examples reveals … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP22) …
Insight, 06 November 2016