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In Mozambique, government ministries for development planning and for environment work with district authorities and NGO partners to support climate adaptation at a local scale
Monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique shows how to link local and national climate adaptation
… Climate change increasingly challenges the ways people live and economies … and the drive to adapt is picking up speed. We know that effective adaptation happens when local actions are supported by a national … of how well climate adaptation investments improve the climate resilience of different sectors and of citizens. They will also need to …
Insight, 28 February 2014
Responding to climate change in the Caribbean
… Leslie, Executive Director of the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre , highlighted the threats but also pointed out that at the … mechanism and reforestation programmes, to help to finance adaptation. The message from the conference was that in the face of the … Climate change … Responding to climate change in the Caribbean …
Insight, 05 July 2011
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Low-carbon resilient development in the Least Developed Countries
… Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate change policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions … while simultaneously building climate resilience (climate change adaptation) and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy … Climate change …
Publication, 01 October 2013
Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)
How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
… Climate negotiators from across the world are preparing to jet off to … two long weeks of talks, media attention will be drawn to climate change once again. Less glamorous, but equally important, … by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to support adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. Countries …
Insight, 24 November 2014
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
Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
… a two-way pathway between disaster and development informed by a climate lens, seeing the way that climate change impacts women in particular.  Prema was a co-founder of SPARC and … Prema; we were gathering a range of actors to discuss what effective adaptation could look like from different perspectives. Prema spoke so …
News, 23 May 2022
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? 
Insight, 19 January 2017
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Financing inclusive low-carbon resilient development: The role of the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre in Nepal
… are leading the way in developing and implementing low-carbon climate-resilient development (LCRD) strategies. LCRD strategies bring together the two main policy responses to climate change — adaptation and mitigation — to help promote poverty reduction and lead … Climate change …
Publication, 01 August 2015
A solar-powered building alongside wetland
LDCs and the Paris Agreement: moving from international commitments to national implementation
… a global framework to work together to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Paris Agreement implementation officially kicks off this year … strategies, reporting on progress towards their mitigation and adaptation actions, and finding new solutions to the consequences of … Climate change …
News, 20 July 2020
A woman showing her identification card to two officials
Webinar report: Gender inequalities in social protection
… diverse challenges in their responses to the impacts of a changing climate. Not only do they need short-term coping mechanisms, but in the … but longer-term strategies for becoming more resilient to climate change. Are social protection schemes responding in this way? Event … do not meet the needs of the poor and so how do they contribute to adaptation or resilience?’. And even ‘is it possible to provide a …
Event, 02 April 2020