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Screenshot from animation explaining how decentralised climate funds operate (Image: Near East Foundation)
How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
News, 14 November 2016
A man bends over to tend his crops in a field
Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
Insight, 02 September 2019
Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings
Finding solutions in nature for climate change
… One key message from the webinar was the urgent need to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss together. Alex White, team leader for … AXA XL’s Ocean Risk Initiative . AXA XL co-chairs the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, a multi-sector collaboration designed to … Climate change … Biodiversity, climate and development in the 2020 debate …
Insight, 29 May 2020
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IIED at COP26
… of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which binds over 190 Parties, took place in Glasgow … resilient cities and infrastructure, sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level, and more. Find all our … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP26) …
Event, 01 November 2021
Farmers carry bottled water to pour on a field of onion crops
Introduction to our work on climate-resilient development
… frequent and intense than anything they have in the past. Driven by climate change, these shocks will only worsen with every increment of global … climate risk analysis and locally appropriate resilience building and adaptation measures into national and local development policies, plans … Climate change … Climate-resilient development …
Article, 17 December 2012
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 … level. We will help vulnerable communities to develop and become climate resilient, while pushing hard for urgent reductions in …
Insight, 08 April 2019
Man next to a pile of dried crops of maize.
New guide for linking sovereign debt to climate and nature action
… not only on debt, but also to mobilise funds for urgent investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation and to protect nature. But so far, international initiatives … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP26) … New guide for linking sovereign debt to climate and nature action …
Insight, 02 November 2021
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
Event, 08 December 2018
A group meeting on climate change on boat run by the organisation Shidhulai in Natore, Bangladesh (Photo: Tony Stonehouse/IIED)
Developing nations strengthen ability to demonstrate effective climate change adaptation
… Governments will use the Tracking Adaptation Measuring Development (TAMD) framework to demonstrate if climate finance has been well spent and that the climate vulnerability … for funders and decision makers on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation. TAMD is launched this week at the end of a workshop …
News, 27 February 2015
Multifaceted approach best way for vulnerable countries to overcome climate losses and damage
… Countries most at risk from the impacts of the climate crisis can best address the losses and damage many are already suffering as a result of climate change by using a diverse range of tools and types of finance, according … – must support the most vulnerable countries to develop robust strategies to address them, and to implement concrete actions using all …
News, 27 July 2022