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Climate Resilience Assessment Toolkit - Kenya
… Resilience Assessment is a participatory process allowing local people, … NGOs staff, the logic of their production strategies in the face of climate variability and change. The aim of resilience assessment to the Consortium is to pilot … Climate Resilience Assessment Toolkit - Kenya …
Publication, 01 January 2016
An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss
A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
… A video recording of the event during London Climate Action Week. This is also available on IIED's YouTube channel . … world is already dealing with multiple intertwined crises – climate change, unprecedented biodiversity loss and rising inequalities. Poor … lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance Is ecosystem-based adaptation effective? Perceptions and lessons learned from 13 project …
Insight, 26 November 2020
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2016 Mozambique report: assessment of how to link social protection and climate resilience objectives and interventions
… legislative and policy frameworks for Social Protection (SP) and for climate adaptation and mitigation. It is a working hypothesis of this assessment … what are the options for linking SP provision and support to climate change adaptation for the benefit of the poorest people in Mozambique. … Climate change …
Publication, 30 June 2016
Picture of the Punakha Dzong, an administrative centre in Bhutan. A river runs past it in the foreground and wooded hills rise behind it.
Low carbon resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change?
… Instead of talking about climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation, developed and developing national governments – including … Climate change … resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change? …
Insight, 22 January 2013
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Niger: Pastoral livelihoods and climate change adaptation
… how six different pastoral communities in eastern Niger adapted to climate change. The work showed the strategies pastoralists used to respond to … analysed whether and how Niger’s policy environment helped build the resilience of local communities to climate change, and how much gender, … Niger: Pastoral livelihoods and climate change adaptation …
Project, 17 December 2012
Indian woman does maintenance work on solar panel, with mountains in the background.
Experience sharing on long-term strategies (LTS) in least developed countries
… and communicate ‘long-term low greenhouse gas emissions development strategies’ (LTS) and to do so by 2020. The Paris Agreement is flexible … those of industrialised, wealthier countries. Whereas most long-term strategies submitted so far are directed towards decarbonising the … but just as prominently on enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability. As LDCs strive to achieve …
Event, 13 August 2020
Health: an issue that needs to be prioritised in climate change adaptation
… such events. Health is a serious issue when we deal with the issue of climate change. Certainly, healthy people in a healthy ecosystem are more … those who are unhealthy. The issues of scaling up community-based adaptation in health were discussed in the 20th parallel session of the … Climate change … Health: an issue that needs to be prioritised in climate change adaptation …
Insight, 01 April 2011
A washed-out road near Lake Bisina in Uganda. Uganda is experiencing significant impacts of climate change such as increased frequency of extreme weather events like floods (Photo: James Anderson, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Assessing adaptation and development progress
… Climate risks are escalating, and governments and donors need effective adaptation programmes to keep sustainable development on track. … development frameworks.  The case of Uganda: linking climate change MEL to development planning frameworks  Our third presenter was … Climate change … Assessing adaptation and development progress …
Insight, 06 July 2018
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
… Each year international negotiators gather for global talks on climate change at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations … What is the role of trade in delivering climate mitigation and adaptation in land-using sectors? How can biomass value chains be made … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP24) …
Event, 02 December 2018
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How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
… the last decade under a cloud: the inter-governmental process on climate change crashed disastrously at COP15 , held in Copenhagen in 2009. But … domestic action plans through the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience  and support its vital contribution to the … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP25) …
Insight, 06 January 2020