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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
Event, 02 December 2018
Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
Insight, 22 June 2017
View of Harpan village of Panchase – the upstream of Phewa Lake (Photo: Amit Poudyal/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Nepal
Project, 26 June 2018
Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.
Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city
… knowledge can work together with experiential knowledge.   TS: Based on my research in Mexico City, one of the main barriers is the … to certain types of participation, but not all. For example, while community-based participation in water and sanitation projects is … Exploring these questions is extremely important in the context of climate-related hazards and greater intensity of disasters.   Q: Have …
Article, 10 December 2021
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
… the conference had an urban focus, with the theme of 'enhancing urban community resilience'. Discussions at the conference highlighted … climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation. Delegates showed that with the right support, these … slum dwellers associations have the potential to scale up community-based adaptation projects and initiatives and continue the work started …
News, 28 April 2016
Rickshaws on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city.
Bangladesh: from adaptation to low carbon resilience?
… and has consistently been a leader in developing solutions around community-based adaptation to climate change, national adaptation planning and offering … Climate change … Bangladesh: from adaptation to low carbon resilience? …
Insight, 10 July 2013
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… workers living in the global South – are becoming more precarious as climate change and overfishing reshape the risks they face. Almost 90% … between NGOs, private companies, fisheries sector organisations and community-based organisations. These last two often play a role in the informal …
Insight, 06 June 2022
D&C Days 2018: around 350 policymakers, researchers and development practitioners came together for discussions and debates focused on the interface between development and climate change (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
"Follow the science": Least Developed Countries Group lead negotiator
News, 10 December 2018
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
Article, 04 April 2019
Climate adaptation: old wine in new bottles?
Insight, 29 March 2011