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Communities adapting to climate change can learn from revolutionary conservation method
… be critical to the success of communities as they strive to adapt to climate change.” CBNRM is based on an incentive-driven notion that … identified eight key lessons that CBNRM has for community based adaptation: Blending strategies for sustainable livelihoods and resource management can make communities more resilient …
News, 03 May 2012
Inspiring climate leaders, such as UNECA's Fatima Denton, are needed for Africa to tackle climate change (Photo: UNECA)
Africa moves ahead to tackle climate change
… The fourth conference on Climate Change and Development held in Marrakech, Morocco, last month, … to share and discuss ideas for approaching the twin challenges of adaptation and mitigation. I found some of these especially striking: … key sectors, such as agriculture, energy and water, and secure livelihoods". Together with leaders such as Denton, from politicians to …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Tanzania has just 20 years to adapt agriculture to climate change, warn economists
… out for Tanzania to adapt. The researchers predict that impacts of climate change in Tanzania's agriculture sector will reduce the nation’s total … GDP by 0.6-1% by 2030. But they warn that unless there is meaningful adaptation in the sector this could rise to 5-68% by 2085 as greater … Climate change …
News, 01 October 2009
Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)
Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation
… Communities in many contexts have developed their own adaptation strategies, uniquely suited to their environment, to manage climate variability and uncertainty. Over time, they have developed … are limits to how well communities can continue to practise adaptive livelihoods in the context of a changing climate. They need the support …
Project, 26 November 2015
Women delivering a package to another woman, all wearing face masks.
Climate justice needs vaccine justice
… and communities that depend on international tourism have seen their livelihoods effectively destroyed. The reasons why many countries in … dominate systems for vaccine supply then this picture could easily change, with infections continuing to grow in poorer countries that are … proved to be important in responding to the pandemic. COVID and the climate crisis – not separate issues IIED has worked for decades for …
Insight, 01 February 2021
IIED director Camilla Toulmin makes a key speech during the closing ceremony of CBA8
Toulmin: More power to the people to tackle climate change
… ceremony of the 8 th international conference on community based adaptation to climate change , which took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014. … managing scarce water, and growing different crops and diversifying livelihoods, and this has given me a fundamental respect for the … Climate change … Toulmin: More power to the people to tackle climate change …
News, 12 May 2014
A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
… The changes in my country’s climate and the impacts on me, my family and our communities have … a privilege that allowed me to witness first hand the way climate change is impacting my home country. During my lifetime, the temperature … countries. We have limited capacity to protect our people’s lives and livelihoods.  The most recent period of intense rainfall in Rwanda began …
Insight, 03 September 2020
Slow onset climate disasters leaving migrants at greater risk of human trafficking
… People migrating to escape slow onset climate disasters like drought are two and a half times more likely to … few months leading to drought in some areas.  According to ' Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking ', people from 42% of … who had been farming when climate-related disasters wiped out their livelihoods. Desperate for work, they had little bargaining power, …
News, 25 May 2022
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and 2019, IIED, … Climate change … Ecosystem-based adaptation …
Project, 12 June 2018
Head and shoulders image of Alok Sharma talking to a computer camera in front of the Union flag
Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19
… speech in a discussion titled ‘ Resilience in light of COVID-19: climate action on the road to COP26 ’, hosted by IIED and E3G during  … who gave examples of the ambitious commitments and action on climate adaptation and resilience that they're working on at all levels, from … saying: “We need to recognise how precarious the lives and livelihoods are for people in vulnerable communities, but that they have …
News, 07 July 2020