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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
… This animation explains how decentralised climate funds operate. IIED and partners are highlighting the potential … finance approaches. They aim to demonstrate that local climate adaptation planning and budgeting can build resilience to the impacts of climate change and reduce poverty, particularly for people in typically poor and …
News, 14 November 2016
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
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
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
Man next to a pile of dried crops of maize.
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
… 2018 to debate issues at the interface between development and climate change.  At the end of the two-day event the participants agreed key … negotiations, business sector planning and the formulation of climate adaptation strategies in-country. The 24th COP took place in the Polish … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP24) …
Event, 08 December 2018
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
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
Cover for 10744IIED.pdf
Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate?
Publication, 01 August 2015
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Using forest ecosystems to build resilience in Chile
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is an increasingly popular and tested strategy among … for the best ways to help their people adapt to the challenges of climate change. The Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) … Climate change … Using forest ecosystems to build resilience in Chile …
Publication, 01 April 2019