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Barriers and solutions to effective climate change adaptation in Indonesia: perspectives of local planners
… at local levels. Local planners from several Indonesian urban coastal cities were interviewed about four key themes: perceptions of climate …
Publication, 01 August 2014
In the foreground, a hotchpotch of buildings close together, towered over by large buildings in the background.
Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… Transformative Urban Coalitions programme, which seeks to put cities on a path to achieving climate justice and zero-carbon emissions … needed so that communities can try something different and reimagine cities from the perspective of informal settlements and local … in the context of a warming planet . What is the key message or theme that IIED-AL wants to get across in 2022? JH: Our focus continues …
Article, 14 June 2022
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ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… start on small-scale farming , human rights , and climate resilient cities . If you want to join in, you’ll find full details, as well the … particularly interested in the learning alliance on climate resilient cities, which will take an environmental perspective. It will be … focusing on three questions: What has helped certain Latin American cities increase their climate resilience? What barriers and constraints …
Insight, 12 November 2012
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Perspectives of Indonesian Local Government Planners on Adaptation to Climate Change
… working for local governments from seven different Indonesian coastal cities. Several significant factors that need to be addressed in order …
Publication, 01 May 2014
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Urban Livelihoods
… works to mobilize female workers.~ ~Papers on climate change in cities address adaptation at two different levels: collaborative …
Publication, 01 October 2016
Three generations of Syrian refugees queuing at a registration point on the Syria/Lebanon border. The United Nations says 4.8 million people have fled the conflict in Syria (Photo: UNHCR/ M. Hofer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
…   Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the … that rural Syrian migrants and the existing residents of the Syrian cities that they've moved to then fought each other over those scarce … said it was possible that for many people, migration would be part of adapting to climate change: "So with the right kind of planning, with …
Event, 03 October 2016
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document
CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
… climate summit in September. The summit will challenge states, cities, companies and citizens, through domestic action and … policy planners take lessons from how other communities are adapting to climate challenges and can plug into key networks for …
Insight, 22 January 2019
An image of youth climate leader Greta Thunberg on a mural, with her speech: "You all come to us young people for hope. This is all wrong"
Development and Climate Days 2019
… need to decline at a rate of 7.6% per year to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, and Progress on climate finance remains disappointing, with … the format of the day. The event developed five themes. Click on the theme links below to learn more about each individual theme: Building … no one behind Financing a resilient future Establishing resilient cities and infrastructure Working with nature to build resilience Within …
Event, 08 December 2019
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Researching displacement: how do we know we are asking the right questions?
… half of all internally displaced persons (IDPs) now live in towns and cities, with urban environments increasingly the preference over camps. … are overlooked in this context, and we lack evidence on how cities and municipalities should best respond to displacement.  To …
Insight, 19 April 2021
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Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change
… This has an editorial and eight papers on this theme: -Assessing the risks of climate change to settlements in low elevation coastal zones ~-The vulnerability of global cities ~-The vulnerability of Cotonou to sea-level rise ~-Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka ~-Adapting water management to climate change ~-Stakeholder-based …
Publication, 01 April 2007