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A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)
Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
Project, 29 September 2014
Aerial view of a flooded village. Only roofs and vegetation are visible.
Action on climate resilience is business critical
Insight, 12 May 2023
An oil flare in Port Harcourt Nigeria.
Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
… Progress Panel , is calling for greater transparency so that African countries can manage their resource wealth for positive transformation … Times earlier this month , Annan called for the G8 to empower African governments through capacity building. “The region’s revenue authorities … and high-profile support. But it is also a weakness, because the need to assure ongoing government and business commitment limits the …
Insight, 23 May 2013
Ships lay stranded in a dry reservoir in China.
China: can the ‘factory of the world’ clean up its act?
… demands will be an important force to drive change. Consumers can act as powerful agents of change; having access to information can lead … meeting the same standards? It’s not just private enterprises that need further scrutiny. Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are big … trade should be developed carefully so they don’t inadvertently act as a market barrier and exclude small-and medium-sized enterprises …
Insight, 27 June 2012
A corridor in Kisenyi, with a semi-permanent hostel and a permanent structure.
Driving change for Kampala’s urban refugee population
… locals lodging in ‘pay-per-bed’ accommodation tend to be traders who need a bed for just one night and can simply move on at the break of …
Insight, 31 October 2024
Participants in a 2016 short course for government officials from developing countries organised by ICCCAD and partners in Dhaka (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The International Centre for Climate Change and Development
Project, 02 July 2018
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
International climate adaptation conference says 2015 summits must address the needs of the world's poor
… More than 400 delegates from 90 countries attended CBA9 in Nairobi from April 27-30. CBA9 is the latest … this year's conference.    CBA9 brought together representatives from governments, civil society, the scientific community, and international … to and enhancing their resilience to climate change. They now need developing countries to go one step further in supporting them to meet …
News, 29 April 2015
Members of the Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Africa leaders' group. From left to right: Kauna Schroder, Marie-May Jeremie, Juliane Zeidler, Samson Mulonga, Dineo D Gaborekwe, Baboloki Autlwetse, Felix Monggae, Chipanqura Chirara.
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development
… and share the benefits of genetic resources equitably. The 193 countries party to the CBD were revising their national biodiversity … policy, plans and budgets. It may also be useful for those who are developing or revising an NBSAP and want to check it supports poverty … at the national level, and the obstacles and constraints that need to be overcome to promote further, and more effective, integration. …
Project, 11 May 2014
Men queue in front of a table. A woman hands them bags.
Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
Insight, 13 October 2021
Policymakers at a UN meeting in New York discuss how to end the legal 'no man's land' on 50 per cent of the Earth's surface (Photo by IISD/Francis Dejon)
Governing the ungoverned 50% of the planet
Insight, 11 April 2016