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Formerly arable land is seen dried in Fuyuan county due to drought in southwest China's Yunnan province, an area known for its mild climate (Photo: Mingjia Zhou, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Extreme climate impacts already causing devastation in mountain communities
… for their water .  Mountain ecosystems are extremely vulnerable to climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … must make these regions a priority when agreeing and implementing adaptation policy." IPCC research (PDF)  shows that even modest changes … Such shifts have already been observed among climate-sensitive livelihoods in high mountain environments. Yet mountain people rarely …
News, 18 November 2015
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… people attended the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13)  in Addis Ababa to discuss how adaptation can … solutions. They are because they have to be: their lives and livelihoods are at stake.  "Through a dedicated action track, we seek to … Climate change …
Article, 04 April 2019
Adaptation in Bangladesh: notes from the field
Insight, 29 March 2011
Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)
Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Insight, 23 October 2014
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
… On arrival in Lima last week, I realised I hadn't been to a climate Conference of the Parties since Copenhagen in 2009. The sense of … countries and communities achieve low carbon prosperity, and build livelihoods that are more resilient to climate risk. A team effort … – such as D&C Days, CBA (our annual workshop on community-based adaptation ) or Rio – I am struck by the huge respect and admiration in …
Insight, 11 December 2014
A delegate at COP18 in Doha (Photo: N. Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit
… Doha talks A blog by Camilla Toulmin, entitled Seven ways to reignite climate action after dismal Doha Video updates IIED senior fellow … REDD+ governance can go beyond ‘doing no harm’ to improving the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities. It also looked at what … practitioners to debate the central theme of climate change adaptation (CCA). Sessions at COP 18 focused on learning-by-doing, …
Article, 20 December 2012
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Climate Resilience Assessment Toolkit - Kenya
… NGOs staff, the logic of their production strategies in the face of climate variability and change. The aim of resilience assessment to the Consortium is to pilot … the factors that constrain their resilience to the impacts of climate change, and practical ways to build adaptive capacity and … Climate Resilience Assessment Toolkit - Kenya …
Publication, 01 January 2016
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Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable groups to disasters and climate change: sustainable energy solutions in Quy Nhon City
… the coastal communes of Nhon Ly and Nhon Hai, Quy Nhon. The principal livelihoods in these communes are fishing and seafood processing, … conditions. This research also finds that, in spite of awareness of climate change and its impacts, adaptation measures are not being considered either by households or the …
Publication, 01 June 2014
People use the pavement on Boulevard Richard Lenoir, close to the Bataclan concert venue which was the focus of the Paris attacks on 13 November, 2015, to share messages of support, and hope (Photo: Gael_Lombart, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
French lead drive for global climate agreement
… effort to lay the groundwork for a successful outcome to the COP21 climate conference has been outstanding. Embassies around the world have … states such as Bangladesh and Gambia, and massive damage to livelihoods and well-being elsewhere.   Finance commitments for adaptation to climate change impacts are not big enough and not reaching …
Insight, 17 November 2015
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Finance for housing, livelihoods and basic services
… house construction. There are also papers on finance to support livelihoods and housing in Tamil Nadu, Hubli-Dharwad and a low-income … from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake. There are also four papers on climate change and cities, with a case study of Mombasa’s vulnerability, a discussion of mitigation and adaptation for Indian cities, and papers on climate change and health …
Publication, 01 April 2008