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Sharing knowledge on climate change adaptation in Brazil
… rainforest to rapidly developing megacities. It faces a wide range of climate risks, from sea level rise to droughts and flooding.  … Adaptation Plan identified a vital need for accessible information on climate adaptation, and the plan, published in 2016, called for the … develop the online platform AdaptaClima  to support climate adaptation in Brazil. The work was supported by the British …
Project, 14 May 2018
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Decentralising climate finance to reach the most vulnerable
Publication, 01 October 2016
The Asian Development Bank is helping herders in Mongolia combat the consequences of climate change by training them to cultivate fodder or animal feed that is more resilient towards extreme weather changes, using plants that are adapted to the area (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Finance for inclusive investment in climate resilient development
… solutions that we desperately need to ensure inclusive investment in climate-resilient development (CRD). I see this outcome as potentially … to support inclusive investment that allows the poorest to invest in climate-resilient development. This is not easy. Current flows of … incentives can play an important role in mobilising and delivering finance for inclusive investment in CRD. Ethiopia's …
Insight, 03 August 2015
Aerial footage of palm oil plantations alongside a river
Q&A: CBA15 innovation theme highlights transformative change
Article, 03 June 2021
Woman waling with crutches steps outside a hut to a flooded road
New solidarity funds could ringfence finance for loss and damage
… Deep and irreversible loss and damage from the impacts of climate change is devastating lives across the world: climate and weather-related disasters have affected 1.7 billion people … that over the last 50 years almost 70% of worldwide deaths caused by climate-related disasters were in the least developed countries. Some …
Insight, 08 November 2021
Community group siting in a circle and listening to a speaker
Raising ambition in locally-led action for 2021: calling for business unusual
… unusual’. These are: Why local leadership matters Mechanisms for delivering change Reforming climate finance , and Closing the learning loop in locally led adaptation . Building on these briefings, IIED is looking to the climate finance landscape, to identify where there is already good … Climate change …
News, 16 November 2020
Participants around a table at D&C Days 2016 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Transparency and accountability in the Paris Agreement: eight questions climate negotiators must tackle
… The disparity between the scale of estimated losses from climate impacts and international adaptation funding available to … for the effective measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of climate mitigation measures, and the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of … area, transparency and downward accountability requirements of the climate deal will be one of four themes at this year’' D&C Days .  This …
Insight, 23 October 2017
A Bangladeshi fisherman sleeps under a tree, one of thousands planted by the government in an attempt to slow tidal erosion and shield against winds as the country. As countries take such measures to tackle climate change, negotiators prepare for the road to Paris and COP21 (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Climate negotiations on the road to Paris: the Geneva stop
… 2015 is a critical year for global climate negotiations . The agreement adopted at the climate summit in Paris in December (COP21)  will test the willingness … in June. As such, Geneva is the most important step this year for delivering a new global climate agreement in Paris. It will help further … Climate change …
Insight, 06 February 2015
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Responding to climate change: UK international civil society organisations
… Climate change poses significant disruptions — both positive and … civil society organisations (ICSOs) have started integrating climate change into their work. Although plenty of~research has explored … development work to help us understand how they can get involved in delivering and implementing climate-informed responses. …
Publication, 01 January 2016
IIED research associate Nathalie Seddon discusses nature-based solutions to climate change in a video interview (Photo: IIED)
Consensus grows on nature-based solutions to climate change, but challenges remain
… the growing consensus about the value of nature-based solutions to climate change – including ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation – … Watch Nathalie Seddon discuss nature-based solutions to climate change in this video interview. The video is also available on … had highlighted growing recognition of nature-based solutions to climate change. Seddon said: “There's a real sense of a growing …
News, 10 August 2018