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Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park is a World Heritage Site, but resource degradation has made lowland areas vulnerable to flooding caused by changing rainfall patterns. (Photo: Hulivili, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Building zero carbon emission economy in a decade
… to Andualem Sisay (AS) about the country's challenges in relation to climate change and the progress made towards achieving its ambitious target of … the economy growing fast aspiring to join the middle income countries group within a decade? AS:  It is a meaningful and attainable target as … Climate change …
Article, 24 November 2015
The CBA9 participants gather for a group photo on the final day of the conference, shortly after the Nairobi Declaration was announced (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA9 highlights
Article, 05 May 2015
CBA5 participants visited Char Kukri-Mukri island on the southeast coast. Here women tend mangrove seedlings destined to provide a barrier against erosion (Photo: B. Koelle)
5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
Article, 13 April 2011
Venn diagram of LDCs
Least Developed Countries
… The leading international body for assessing climate change, the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) , … seek to redress. How IIED works to support LDCs IIED's Climate Change Group aims to support, increase and utilise the capacity of development … Climate change …
Article, 30 April 2009
The Maasai believe that community-managed slaughterhouses can help fight climate change. Here, effluent is stored in ponds (Photo: Hannah Reid/IIED)
Slaughterhouse five
… County, which locals argue is "a powerful and effective tool to fight climate change and save the future of African pastoralists". The visit was … consultant researcher working with IIED as part of the Climate Change Group and the biodiversity team. This is the fifth CBA conference she … Climate change …
Insight, 29 April 2015
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
News, 27 April 2015
Sumaya Zakieldeen
Q&A with Sumaya Zakieldeen
Article, 21 June 2012
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
… The Urban Climate Change Research Network organised the event in collaboration with the … Institute for Space Studies, where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She recently co-chaired the New York City Panel on Climate … Program. She was a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report, and is also Co-Editor of the Urban …
News, 22 January 2013
Cover for G00051.pdf
Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Sectoral Issues Section 2.6. Ecosystems
… Document begins: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION ON KEY RESEARCHABLE ISSUES SECTORAL … REID AND JAMES MAYERS Saleemul Huq and Hannah Reid Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development 3 … Climate change … Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues …
Publication, 01 January 1970
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati consists of 33 atols and reef islands. Here, adaptation includes coastal protection measures such as mangrove re-planting, as well as strengthening laws to reduce soil erosion and population settlement planning (Photo: AusAID)
How to measure a global goal for adaptation?
Insight, 27 March 2015