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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 … of topics and issues at the interface of development and climate change. This year the host partners intend to go further.  VIDEO: What … ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Climate Change research group . …
Insight, 23 October 2017
An art piece exhibited at the 2nd Fort Portal Annual Street Art Exhibition on Climate Change (Photo: Christopher Busiinge/KRRC)
Uganda: Is art the answer to communicating about climate change?
… Communicating about climate change is complicated. Forecasting the impacts of climate change is an … and participant numbers grew from 300 in 2012 to 1,000 in 2013. A group of young artists, Jabulani Africa (jabulani is a zulu word meaning … Climate change … Uganda: Is art the answer to communicating about climate change? …
Insight, 10 September 2014
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Linking sovereign debt to climate and nature outcomes. A guide for debt managers and environmental decision makers
… As countries grapple with the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss, compounded by the impacts of the COVID-19 … developing countries looking to increase their fiscal space, adapt to climate change, reduce their emissions and protect their natural … Potomac Group LLC … Linking sovereign debt to climate and nature outcomes. A guide for debt managers and environmental …
Publication, 05 November 2021
IIED's Krystyna Swiderska discusses the latest research on how indigenous people adapt to climate change at a side event at the 2016 UN climate conference in Marrakech (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Indigenous people use own knowledge to boost food yields despite climate change, research finds
… knowledge to counter growing threats to food security in the face of climate change. Droughts, floods, heat stress and other extreme weather can … Swiderska , principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group , who leads the SIFOR project, science has an important role in … Climate change …
News, 22 November 2016
Group discussions with women in Isiolo County, Kenya helped to generate specific evidence about why they and other marginalised groups are more vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Susannah Fisher, IIED)
Decision making in an uncertain climate
… The inherent uncertainties of climate change, now and in the future, present major challenges for decision … ) is a senior researcher in IIED's  Climate Change research group . Ben Garside ( [email protected] ) is senior researcher in the … Climate change … Decision making in an uncertain climate …
Insight, 23 January 2017
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IIED and partner events at COP25
… Climate negotiators gathered in Madrid in December for the 25th … Parties (COP25) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This page summarises IIED's activities during the … Date: Thursday, 5 December 2019 Venue : UK Pavilion Hosted by: LDC Group, AOSIS As a critical year for accelerated action this side event …
Event, 02 December 2019
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Climate risk assessment – Uganda
… Uganda is already experiencing impacts of climate change manifesting through increased frequency and intensity of … vulnerability high and the country is least ready to cope with climate impacts. With projected increase in the frequency of extreme … Climate change … Climate risk assessment – Uganda …
Publication, 23 April 2018
Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)
How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
… Climate negotiators from across the world are preparing to jet off to … two long weeks of talks, media attention will be drawn to climate change once again. Less glamorous, but equally important, … climate resilient? The public policy team within the Climate Change Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development …
Insight, 24 November 2014
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… in Addis Ababa, I have been close witness to the pressures that climate change has brought to Ethiopia, and how these pressures have worsened … as they seek to adapt and become more resilient. In response, the LDC Group - during Ethiopia’s chairmanship – launched the LDC Initiative for … Climate change … Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community …
Insight, 06 March 2019
Woman waters field with a hose.
The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
… This week, the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will meet to consider 15 funding proposals, totalling … To adapt effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change, LDC countries need capable national and local institutions … accountability, and agility is starker than ever. Under the LDC Group’s LIFE-AR initiative , LDCs are taking the lead on shifting to …
Insight, 17 August 2020