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Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate?
… Climate change presents multiple challenges for local governments in developing … extent to which urban regeneration can be considered a climate change adaptation option, and explores the potential challenges and outcomes in … urban regeneration as an adaptation strategy for enhancing health resilience, such as through improved housing and sanitation, at the city …
Publication, 01 August 2015
34 wind turbines in Adama, Ethiopia, produce 51 megawatts. Ethiopia is an early adopter of climate change policy (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Author Q&A: The political economy of low carbon resilient development
Article, 08 November 2016
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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
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Ensuring devolution supports adaptation and climate resilient growth in Kenya
… governance of natural resources is crucial for adaptive capacity and climate resilient growth — and nowhere more so than in Kenya’s arid and semiarid lands. Climate change will hit dryland communities and economies early and severely … adapt. But building on Kenya’s new constitution, a devolved Climate Adaptation Fund is being piloted in Isiolo County. It puts local …
Publication, 01 June 2013
People walking on agricultural land
Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
… needed assistance . No household was untouched. Today, the impacts of climate change continue to hit us on multiple fronts. Sea level rise affects our … Country (LDC) Group 2050 Vision and offer – aimed to integrate adaptation, mitigation and resilience into national objectives to build … Climate change … Business unusual: LDC-led climate action …
Insight, 19 July 2021
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Protect, adapt or relocate? Responding to climate change in coastal Indonesia
… On the coast of Java, Semarang City faces a multitude of climate-related problems including sea-level rise, flash and tidal … paper explores how households are coping with the impacts of climate change. How do they decide whether to protect, adapt or relocate their … tailor government policies to reduce vulnerability and support local adaptation strategies. By bringing together all stakeholders, an urban …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.
CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation
… among policymakers as strategies for responding and adapting to the climate crisis. At next month’s 14th annual community-based adaption … September 2019, in the lead up to the UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Summit in New York, activist Greta Thunberg and journalist George … for countries to work towards their climate change mitigation and/or adaptation goals. And all low-income countries included NbS in their …
Insight, 21 August 2020
A farmer in Tanzania shows the effects of drought on her maize crop. Farmers in developing countries, and women farmers in particular, find it difficult to get multi-peril crop insurance (Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change
… As the risks of natural disasters due to climate change increase, insurance has been put forward as a potential way of … reinsurers such as Munich Re and Swiss Re (PDF) .  Part of a broader adaptation strategy There remain broader questions over whether … Climate change … Insuring farmers – adapting to climate change …
Insight, 16 July 2015
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
… devastation of a different nature. As the adverse effects of climate change escalate, I am more and more worried about my country’s future … include vulnerable groups' voices at all stages in developing climate resilience strategies and in the related decision-making processes. … Climate change … How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds …
Insight, 25 November 2020
An image of youth climate leader Greta Thunberg on a mural, with her speech: "You all come to us young people for hope. This is all wrong"
Development and Climate Days 2019
Event, 08 December 2019