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People gathering branches
Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile
… Chile is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts: multiple natural disasters are becoming more frequent … with nature to adapt  Chile is endowed with diverse ecosystems, home to around 30,000 species of fauna and flora . If those ecosystems … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP25) … Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile …
Insight, 12 December 2019
Group of community members recording via interviews via their phones.
Community-led innovations leading to transformative change
… such as flooding, extreme heatwaves, forced displacements and home loss due to sea level rises or wars, are all challenges that need … healthier, fair and more inclusive. In the context of a warming climate , it is critical to look at these locally-led processes of … Community-led innovations leading to transformative change …
Insight, 27 February 2025
A young woman arranges clothes on the clothesline of her house, which floats on water, while in the distance there is a built-up area and high-rise buildings.
UN publishes global stocktake report
… are making to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and adapt to the climate change that we have unleashed. “It’s hardly surprising that moving forward is so slow when policies that put the brakes on climate action are deep-coded in our financial, legal and economic … Climate change …
News, 08 September 2023
Man standing on wooden bridge in forest holding a shovel.
Tackling loss and damage: practical solutions from the frontline
… The world is grappling with unprecedented challenges caused by climate change, with vulnerable communities facing devastating impacts. Climate change has resulted in irreparable losses and damages to … Climate change …
Event, 07 November 2023
An open sewer runs in front of homes
City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
… As national governments struggle to agree on climate action, city leaders attending the Tenth World Urban Forum … need to show they can rise to the challenge.    Adapting to climate change is a huge challenge for urban areas around the world. It is … for cities in the developing world, which are expected to be home to over two billion more people by 2050.  As these cities grow, …
Insight, 08 February 2020
Animation of a woman picking vegetables
Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone
News, 15 March 2021
Person walks among destroyed housing
Innovative insurance could prevent sovereign debt defaults in wake of climate disasters
… IIED.  In ' Protecting against sovereign debt defaults under growing climate impacts: role for parametric insurance ', researchers propose creating a global fund to pool climate and other debt relief funds from the World Bank and … and frequency of extreme weather events keeps increasing with climate change, poorer countries are more exposed every year, trapping them in …
News, 27 April 2023
Landslide
Loss and damage from climate change has pushed Sierra Leoneans far beyond their ability to adapt
… where my family grew vegetables. On a larger scale, the favourable climate enabled farmers to grow non-scientifically enhanced varieties. … rods and nails. This is one example among thousands of how climate change is threatening our food security. The sea rises, the rains come, … during the raining season. Deadly land and mudslides Freetown is now home to about 30% of my country’s total population. Expansion ran not …
Insight, 02 December 2020
An aerial view of a town covered in floodwater.
How can loss and damage finance reach those enduring climate catastrophe?
… Loss and damage refers to the adverse impacts of climate change that have not, cannot, or will not be avoided by mitigation or … be addressed through concerted action to respond to the wide range of climate impacts that will affect a country or community over different … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP27) …
Insight, 13 September 2022
Container ship sailing through Antwerp bridge
Understanding and managing the overseas impacts of UK food systems transformation
… The UK’s food system contributes to climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss – not just at ‘home’, but around the world too. The UK increasingly ‘offshores’ its …
Project, 24 September 2024