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Multistakeholder collaboration for urban climate change resilience in Bangladesh
… and sanitation sector can contribute towards building greater urban climate resilience in Dhaka City. However, the challenge is to ensure … in Dhaka lack basic services and infrastructure, and are becoming home to more and more rural migrants. While a number of NGOs and … agencies are addressing the water and sanitation deficit, climate change resilience is not always being considered when implementing these …
Publication, 01 November 2015
People serving food
Podcast: Improving climate budgeting during COVID-19
News, 05 June 2020
A man writing notes while a woman watches.
Informal settlement data and local community responses to COVID-19 and climate risks
… The 'Engaging citizens for socially just climate action' project  examines deliberative and participatory … grabs, and promotion of people-led slum upgrading approaches. Climate change aggravates the challenges facing informal settlements, home to an estimated of 880 million people (UN Habitat, 2016), …
Article, 08 December 2020
The UK government has warned that flooding is likely to become more frequent as the country’s climate changes (Photo: Dachlan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Celebrating 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act: an influential law beyond its borders
Insight, 26 November 2018
Junior climate negotiators participate in a mock negotiation session in a training workshop in Senegal in June (Photo: Enda Energie)
Asian and Pacific officials to build their climate negotiation skills
News, 04 September 2017
Old Fadama, Ghana: health conditions in many low-income and informal settlements will be worsened further by rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Climate change and urban health
… few years have brought a very large increase in the literature on climate change and cities. Much of this is concerned with household, community … in the health risks that low-income urban dwellers face in their home and neighbourhood. This began during the 1980s with research on … Climate change … Climate change and urban health …
Project, 29 July 2014
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Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
Insight, 03 September 2020
Prime Minister David Cameron has helped the UK provide global leadership on addressing climate change. But he has decided to resign after the European Union referendum vote, and there are fears that the UK will become more insular (Photo: Russell Watkins/DFID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change
… Figueres pointed out on Tuesday that the Paris Agreement on climate change is a reminder of how much countries can achieve when standing … that leaving the EU will have on the UK's position. Even closer to home, the UK must also think deeply about what sort of union of … Climate change … Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change …
Insight, 01 July 2016
Landscape of terrace fields and homes.
Delivering an inclusive COP26 in the age of COVID-19 requires more than vaccines
Insight, 06 July 2021
Aerial view of trees with a town and the sea in the backround.
Reform the global financial system to support transformational adaptation
… Arriving home in St Andrew, Jamaica from the Bonn intersessional, I learnt that … catastrophic impacts on their economies. This is the nature of climate change. Its impacts on our lives and livelihoods are relentless, and on … Climate change …
Insight, 03 July 2023