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Kenyan ministry officials, agricultural researchers and farmers are testing a range of climate adaptation measures in lower Nyando district (Photo: V. Atakos/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the political and technical challenges of measuring adaptation
… The Paris Agreement is widely recognised as an exciting step forward in the world’s fight against climate change. One element that sets it apart is its global goal for adaptation … Climate change …
Insight, 18 September 2018
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Small, but many, is big: a review of issues in assessing the collective scale of small and locally-controlled forest-linked investment
… - on farms and by small enterprises and producer organisations - is huge. For example, one estimate puts the number of individual … full potential for local development outcomes, forest conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and returns on investment. This paper … Small, but many, is big: a review of issues in assessing the collective scale of small …
Publication, 01 March 2016
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… across the world attended CBA10 in Dhaka from 21-28 April . CBA10 is the latest in a series of international conferences looking at how local communities can and do adapt to climate change. This year, for the first time, the conference had an urban … International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and …
News, 28 April 2016
Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)
Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
… The threats climate change poses to cities in terms of risks, impacts and vulnerabilities is increasing worldwide, but the distribution and severity of these … Climate change … Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban …
Insight, 23 October 2014
A woman buying firewood at Bamako, Mali. IIED has been working with the government of Mali to set up local climate funds to help communities be more resilient during floods and droughts (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Poorest must be heard on climate action to deliver Paris Agreement’s success
Insight, 04 November 2016
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
Insight, 30 December 2020
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
Event, 06 November 2017
Women using hoes in a crop field in Kilosa, Tanzania.
Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?
… Land is the backbone of livelihoods for most women and men in rural Africa. … to many factors including the development of commercial agriculture, climate change, urbanisation and population growth. Research (PDF) indicates …
Insight, 15 October 2020
Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
… that matter for our shared world, but happy because I feel the time is right for me to pass this opportunity to someone else to inject their … work that I love – research and writing – particularly on land and climate change issues, and a focus on the drylands .   Our new chair of the …
Insight, 29 October 2014
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Democratic forest business models: a harder but more rewarding path
… and global needs, from a village’s food and firewood to mitigating climate change. With demand unlikely to fall, the key issue is how we extract what we need. Governments are faced with two …
Publication, 01 September 2015