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Climate change studies analyse risks and resilience in urban Vietnam
… to protect workers from heat exposure, and develop a heat stress index to enable government officials, employers and workers to better …
News, 22 October 2013
IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
Insight, 11 December 2014
COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
News, 19 December 2014
The St Briavels wind turbine in construction (left) and completed (right). Source: Abundance
Can investment crowdfunding deliver Sustainable Energy for All?
… because wind turbines are a proven technology that receive a fixed index-linked price for the electricity they generate, such risks are …
Insight, 20 October 2013
A dilapidated road is repaired in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India (Photo: Rikynti Marwein via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Transforming growth for least developed countries
… Programme of Action. The LDCs have the lowest Human Development Index ratings and low levels of socio-economic development. But they …
Insight, 10 March 2014
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Earth Summit 2012: Crucial opportunity that needs broader buy-in
… to work alongside Gross Domestic Product and the Human Development Index (a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and …
Insight, 20 December 2011
In Kenya's Isiolo County, repeated droughts are forcing pastoralists out of herding and into farming. The county has used TAMD to assess climate risk management schemes (Photo: Martin Karimi/ECHO)
Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD): Country work
Article, 28 October 2014
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021