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Climate Change And Sustainable Development Summary Of The Scoping Study1
Publication, 01 January 1970
In Durban, a day to focus on climate communication
News, 19 December 2011
The Sundarbans mangrove forest (dark green on the image) is a fragile ecosystem threatened by rising levels of salinity (Photo: European Space Agency)
Making ecosystems resilient through Bangladesh's Delta Plan
… The climate threats facing Bangladesh pose a very real threat to the … Delta Plan 2100 Bangladesh's geographic vulnerability to climate change, combined with growing demand for water from urbanisation and … from members of the Government Group Network on Climate Change Mainstreaming . The first focused on insuring against climate risk in …
Insight, 12 June 2017
The Maasai believe that community-managed slaughterhouses can help fight climate change. Here, effluent is stored in ponds (Photo: Hannah Reid/IIED)
Slaughterhouse five
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
… the publication, entitled 'Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate-resilient drylands development' . A product of research from … the environment." Many dryland people know how to live with climate change and work with variable rainfall. They recognise variability as an … IIED, Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI), the Adaptation Consortium and funded by the Ford Foundation . Notes to …
News, 27 April 2015
A community discusses water and energy challenges in Alango, Kenya (Photo: Ibrahim Jarso, Resource Advocacy Program)
Participatory investment planning for environment, water and energy in the dryland of northern Kenya
Project, 25 August 2016
Testing the water in Kenya's Tana River watershed. The river's ecosystem is being affected by a range of factors. Public and private organisations are exploring ways to improve ecosystem management (Photo: Georgina Smith/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
'Sustainable development science' for transforming our world
… be, but are much weaker at framing how things actually are and how change occurs in reality. In addition there is little evidence of … the natural foundations of human life is at least as significant as climate change. From understanding to action The MA had a rather modest … than 30 years on what is dubbed, rather uninspiringly, 'environmental mainstreaming'. The 'push' by environmentalists has begun to be …
Insight, 09 October 2015
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… workers living in the global South – are becoming more precarious as climate change and overfishing reshape the risks they face. Almost 90% of global … this stress increases the vulnerability of the fisheries sector to climate change .  Social protection and labour programmes can help …
Insight, 06 June 2022
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … are reached, Chinese businesses – the key driver of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable … navigate more than 240 tools and methods relevant to ecosystem-based adaptation. Indigenous peoples and local communities have been working …
Article, 27 December 2019
A man walks with his roaming goats.
Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions
… be presented at the 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 22-25 April. "Policymakers often dismiss … Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions …
News, 19 April 2013