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Indigenous people at the Himalayan workshop
Biocultural heritage landscape to be established in Eastern Himalayas
… the future, enhancing food security and securing crop diversity for climate change adaptation.  The area selected for the biocultural heritage … local food security and biodiversity conservation in the face of of climate change. Implementing the action plan developed will include …
News, 30 November 2017
Champion of urban climate action Debra Roberts will deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture. Click the image to apply to attend the event (Image: IIED)
Jack of all trades, master of the urban agenda
… soon moved to local government, pioneering work on biodiversity and climate change adaptation in the urban arena. She now heads up the Sustainable … co-chairing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 2 on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (IPCC WG2). She is, she …
News, 14 September 2016
Shaping the agenda and demanding action
Shaping the agenda and demanding action
… Agenda will be the first Habitat agenda that explicitly considers climate change in cities, for example. Looking back over the history of Habitat, …
Long read, 07 October 2016
Adaptation in Bangladesh: notes from the field
… Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. Last year, the British global risks analysis … active in adapting to climate change. And last weekend, as part of a group of delegates to the Fifth Annual Community-Based Adaptation … Climate change …
Insight, 29 March 2011
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Urban Livelihoods
… as WIEGO particularly works to mobilize female workers.~ ~Papers on climate change in cities address adaptation at two different levels: collaborative production of a municipal climate adaptation plan in Bergrivier, South Africa; and the adaptation …
Publication, 01 October 2016
More than 80 representatives of slum-dwellers federations attended the 9th World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur (Photo: United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?
… governments to account, there is a better opportunity for meaningful change to take place. At the end of the World Urban Forum, the … for Housing Rights (ACHR) , the Huairou Commission – could access climate finance to support adaptation in informal settlements. This … David Dodman is director of IIED's Human Settlements research group . …
Article, 14 February 2018
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Getting local governments, residents and enterprises to respond to the new IPCC assessment
… The new IPCC assessment – Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability ‒ highlights how city governments have to add climate change adaptation and mitigation to their policies, plans, …
Publication, 01 April 2014
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of climate change. Or cities that are keeping their greenhouse-gas emissions to a … of what is in the common good now needs to be expanded to address climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as sustainable …
Insight, 12 October 2015
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… This video exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many videos IIED … 25 ans dans les zones arides . Understanding pastoral livelihoods and climate change This project aimed to better understand pastoral … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity …
Article, 17 December 2012
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IIED launches podcast
… taken towards a more secure future for people and planet.  The Make Change Happen podcast – a series of audio recordings that can be … sets out IIED's response to the critical challenges of our time, from climate crisis to biodiversity loss and increasing inequality. Each … and the director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, Laura Kelly , also look at international attempts to improve …
News, 23 August 2019