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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… discuss the plans and outcomes of the treaty. The 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD … principal researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … conventions, and have a direct positive environmental and community-level impact. The Darwin Initiative was launched at the Rio …
Event, 17 November 2018
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund project 'Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation in Bangladesh' (Photo: UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism)
Making the climate fund fit for purpose
… the final stages in the negotiations leading up to the Paris climate conference (COP21), the future of this fund needs to be secured. The … Nations as the poorest and weakest members of the international community. LDCs typically do not have the institutional or human … been an important channel through which donors have provided grant-based finance to support our countries' most urgent adaptation actions. …
Insight, 27 August 2015
A tale of typhoons, trees and tiny creatures that stood between a community and climate resilience
… day witnessed both the fury and the protective power of nature. The community learned well from the experience, but only after they overcame … to spread further. I visited Da Loc as part of the  6th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change  , which gathers researchers and …
Insight, 17 April 2012
The Maasai believe that community-managed slaughterhouses can help fight climate change. Here, effluent is stored in ponds (Photo: Hannah Reid/IIED)
Slaughterhouse five
… visit to a slaughterhouse, organised as part of the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) .  The visit was a one-day field trip to the … Climate change …
Insight, 29 April 2015
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
… a further domino falling into place to enable the international community to sign a global deal in Paris that is binding and can arrest … plan to revamp Canada's climate position within 90 days of the Paris conference. While it is reasonable for the international community to … efficiency Scaling-up adaptation actions (universally, with grant-based finance for the LDCs) Providing long-term climate finance of at …
Insight, 21 October 2015
2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
… development programme in southern Malawi, promoting the use of tree-based biofuels and their by-products.   Diffa: Les premiers matins du … on this page so go to our YouTube channel to see more. Related work Community based adaptation These short films explore the issue of … organising D&C Days at COP 16 .  COP15: United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen Find out about IIED's work for COP15 , …
Article, 22 July 2010
How can we measure adaptation: monitoring and evaluation as an entry point?
… been evident during the formal and informal discussions at the Fifth Conference on Community-based adaptation (CBA5) held in Bangladesh this week. Most of these … Climate change … How can we measure adaptation: monitoring and evaluation as an entry point? …
Insight, 31 March 2011
2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
… effectively buying drought insurance. Ahead of the 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation , for which registration is available until 14 June, … Climate change … Insuring against climate risk in Kenya …
Insight, 06 June 2017
Debra Roberts will become the latest 'outstanding woman in development' to deliver the Barbara Ward Lecture
Champion of urban climate action to deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture
… issues ahead of Habitat III, the United Nations' first urbanisation conference in 20 years. Roberts' lecture will be based on her experience as a practitioner working in an African city and … cities and climate change at the 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation, in 2013 Roberts is a regular contributor to …
News, 19 July 2016
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Crucial conversations: our favourite five
… blogged about his vision to expand a new tree-planting initiative . A community tree planting event (Photo: copyright Brian Ochieng Otieno, … 3. Capturing content from the grassroots The 13th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA13) brought together more than …
Insight, 10 March 2020