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Man standing next to a tree.
Upscaling innovative ‘planting-baskets’ to restore landscape diversity and enhance climate-resilient livelihoods
… agroforestry, and promoting biodiversity restoration practices and climate-resilient livelihoods.  What is IIED doing? IIED is supporting … from other countries of the importance of diversification for climate resilience, and mentor partner NGOs in strategies and tactics that forest and farm producer organisations are …
Project, 22 February 2024
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Building better cities: responding to the twin challenge of inequality and climate change
… disruptive resilience : to tackle disruptive risks such as the climate emergency and COVID-19, cities must embrace innovative … to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that the impacts of climate change and efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle … four interlinked themes.   However, effective decarbonisation and adaptation strategies in cities will depend on developing local …
Article, 23 June 2022
Indian women working a rice field
Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme
… of the scheme towards poverty reduction is well documented, climate change has emerged as a major threat and could reverse these development … Ministry of Rural Development  (MoRD) of India to enhance the climate resilience impacts of MGNREGS, with support from the UK's Foreign, … Climate change … Climate-resilient development …
Project, 07 January 2021
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A new COP26 decision for long-term strategies: what’s in it for LDCs?
… development strategies’ – visionary plans for delivering low carbon, climate resilient development by mid-century. But the 2020 deadline has … with developing, updating and implementing their LTS. Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) Status? Parties have called for practical steps to … today, the stock of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere means climate change impacts will worsen in decades to come – ignoring adaptation and …
Insight, 31 May 2021
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Climate change and the blue economy: the role of fisheries and aquaculture
Publication, 16 November 2023
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Better cities are possible: responding to the twin crises of climate change and inequality
… low-carbon and just urbanisation, in a context of increasing climate breakdown and inequality? Here, IIED’s urban researchers set out … the context of the climate emergency.  Effective decarbonisation and adaptation strategies in cities will depend on developing local … planning that tackles the twin crises of inequality and climate change will depend on local and scientific data on risk and inequality, …
Publication, 21 June 2022
Woman, wearing a hat and a basket on her back, picks vegetables
The unsung heroes for nature and climate
Insight, 07 December 2022
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… in Addis Ababa, I have been close witness to the pressures that climate change has brought to Ethiopia, and how these pressures have worsened … Ethiopia’s chairmanship – launched the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) . This LDC-led initiative seeks to … Climate change … Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community …
Insight, 06 March 2019
A shepherd and a herd of sheep in a mountain
COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
Insight, 08 November 2022
Aerial view of a floded town and vegetation
National Adaptation Plans: LDCs need financing to turn words into reality
… support countries in building resilience to the worsening impacts of climate change the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, back in 2010, introduced National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). These plans set out the actions that countries … Climate change … National Adaptation Plans: LDCs need financing to turn words into reality …
Insight, 24 April 2023