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PLA66: Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… participation, sustainable natural resource management and improving livelihoods, including: • How a participatory three-dimensional … Islands has generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. • How a modified form of scoring, used within a … Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Outdoor workers in Da Nang are prone to heat stress. Credit: COHED.
To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
… decide how vulnerable someone living in a city is to the impacts of climate change, or how they become more resilient? What makes some policy … from Vietnam, which IIED has supported through the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network , provide answers to such questions. … Climate change … To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability …
Insight, 30 October 2013
2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
… In Kenya, climate change is already having an impact. There have been 12 serious … Fund) via targeted projects (such the World Bank's Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience project ).   Kenya is one of the countries taking … Ahead of the 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation , for which registration is available until 14 June, IIED is …
Insight, 06 June 2017
Should public money from Europe used to build wind farms, such as this one in Mulan, around 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang, China, constitute official development assistance? (Photo: Land Rover Our Planet, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions
… Is spending to make agriculture in Bangladesh climate resilient best labelled as climate finance or development … distinguish between different types of international climate finance (adaptation and mitigation) and different types of recipient (Least … local and global benefits, including those related to climate change. We recognise the need for transparent accounting for climate …
Insight, 01 June 2015
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37 3 Climate Change - Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts
… Document begins: 37 3 Climate Change ­ Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts Hannah Reid, IIED1 Climate … is to learn to live with the inevitable changes. This is known as adaptation to climate change. 1. The author would like to thank Saliem … 37 3 Climate Change - Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts …
Publication, 01 January 1970
A mother struggles to feed her children in the face of flooding (Image: IIED Independent Expert Group)
What does the Paris Agreement mean for LDCs?
… What does the Paris Agreement on climate change mean for the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs)? A … the importance of increased funding for LDCs, particularly for adaptation, and it recognises the importance of loss and damage, which … for her country, where so many people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. The Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay, said the …
News, 04 January 2016
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IIED's best of 2021: publications
… jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that … published alongside the issue paper .   3 Principles for locally-led adaptation Issue paper Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic … options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems  Infographic …
Article, 17 December 2021
The case study for Manizales, in Colombia, in a new book edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite focuses on innovative community-oriented environmental policy and a commitment to disaster risk reduction (Photo: Melissa Delzio, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can we transform our cities?
… are expanding rapidly. Now, city governments also have to address climate change. Our new book, based on assessments in Bangalore, … but also integrate disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and low greenhouse gas emissions.   Cities on a finite planet … are about identifying and acting on local risks (to life, health, livelihoods and assets). All three need to be rooted in engagement with …
Insight, 19 April 2016
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Table of contents: PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… participation, sustainable natural resource management and improving livelihoods, including: • How a P3DM project in the Solomon Islands has generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change.~• How a modified form of scoring, used within a … 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
… Robinson, the former Irish President and champion of human rights and climate action, called on Sunday for global solidarity to tackle the … Panel on Climate change (IPCC)'s working group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability told Development & Climate Days: "We know … told the COP21 plenary that "we are in Paris to safeguard our livelihoods and our future" (reported on Twitter ) and recently told the …
Insight, 09 December 2015