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CBA12: Key messages
… CBA12 focused on getting local experience on climate action heard. The CBA community of practice shared innovation, … rather than creating new ones Governments have a key role in the mainstreaming of DCF – ensuring what takes place supports national … examined how technologies help local communities adapt to climate change and how these technologies can attract investment. New technology …
Article, 11 June 2018
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… by [COVID-19] restrictions on movement. 3 Locally-led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey January : In early 2021, … and the journey ahead . This 10-year journey to promote locally led adaptation will use three annual events to keep partners – both …
Article, 23 December 2021
Gambia has appointed Pa Ousman Jarju as Special Climate Envoy. His appointment shows Gambia's commitment to effective climate diplomacy (Photo: Global Environment Facility)
Engaging in climate diplomacy – policy pointers from an LDC
… special envoys gathered at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to discuss the future of the international climate regime. Named by Responding to Climate Change as the who's who of people tasked to stop climate change, the … into the national interest debate is enhanced by the practice of mainstreaming. The Gambia has successfully mainstreamed climate change …
Insight, 06 August 2014
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
Insight, 06 June 2017
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… It will also be a crunch year for international environment and development diplomacy. The 2030 international development agenda – … against the goals will be assessed; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will assess whether the commitments for 2020 laid out in … Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an …
Insight, 29 April 2019
A drought in East Africa: the Green Climate Fund will help developing countries mitigate and adapt against climate change (Photo: Wikipedia Creative Commons)
Setting up the Green Climate Fund: Watch This Space
… The Green Climate Fund (GCF), established in 2010 by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is a financial mechanism by which developed countries will fund climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in developing countries. At a … Climate change … Setting up the Green Climate Fund: Watch This Space …
Insight, 11 July 2014
Covers of best publications 2021.
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 investments in … published alongside the issue paper .   3 Principles for locally-led adaptation Issue paper Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic …
Article, 17 December 2021
View of a forest with a volcano in the background
2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference
… – Barbara Ward, IIED’s founder – by inviting outstanding woman in development to speak. And Grynspan, a recent chair of the IIED board of … farmers, rich in biodiversity but poor in other resources, become a climate leader for the world?’ Volcán Arenal National Park in Costa Rica … parliament. “That obliged us to have a common project. We didn’t change so much because a lot of decisions had to be made through …
Article, 16 December 2021
There was an 'atmosphere of suspicion' at the climate change talks in Warsaw in November (Credit: DrabikPany, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Climate diplomacy can build the trust needed to secure our common future
Insight, 14 January 2014
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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation in the integrated hill farming systems of Nepal
… gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires … supporting communities in undertaking adaptations to climate change, are currently inadequately disseminated. While the generation of …
Publication, 01 September 2011