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Climate change mitigation

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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?

Event on 03 October 2016

A family at the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia. Some 650,000 migrants and refugees travelled through Croatia between September 2015 and January 2016 (Photo: Meabh Smith/Trócaire, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Responding to transit refugees in Croatia

Insight, 19 August 2016

An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)

Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities

Insight, 06 May 2016

Brazil's favelas are a legacy of a more passive resistance reflecting an unwillingness to plan for anticipated population growth (Photo: Chris Jones, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Exploring inclusive urbanisation and other migration crises

Insight, 28 October 2015

Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty

Insight, 30 September 2015

A rubber boat carrying around 50 refugees arrives from Bodrum, Turkey to the Greek island of Kos (Photo: Christopher Jahn/IFRC, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

In this war of words, no one is the victor

Insight, 04 September 2015

Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse

Insight, 18 March 2015

Solar-powered irrigated water pumps such as this one in Bangladesh can help villagers cope with unreliable rainfall patterns (Photo: Neha Rai/IIED)

Climate finance must reach poor families

Insight, 16 February 2015

Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)

Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation

Insight, 05 December 2014

Inspiring climate leaders, such as UNECA's Fatima Denton, are needed for Africa to tackle climate change (Photo: UNECA)

Africa moves ahead to tackle climate change

Insight, 17 November 2014

The British Library will host the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture, with guest speaker Dr Fatima Denton (Photo: Wikipedia Commons licence)

2014 IIED lecture: Let's rewrite the narrative on Africa and climate change

News, 07 October 2014

A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)

Government group network on climate change mainstreaming

Project

Ejura Market in Ghana is an important centre for farmers selling their yam crops (Photo: IITA)

Rural urban linkages

Active Project

This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter

Insight, 24 March 2014

The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater

Inclusive environmental investments

Active Project

Rickshaws on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city.

Bangladesh: from adaptation to low carbon resilience?

Insight, 10 July 2013

The private sector’s role in low carbon resilient development

Insight, 20 June 2013

Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option

Insight, 05 April 2012

Urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change

News, 26 May 2011

Making gender and generation matter

Archived Project

Climate change: governments should support migration, not fear it

News, 02 February 2011

Climate change study provides greenhouse-gas emissions for 100 cities in 33 nations

News, 25 January 2011

Less erosion, less warming

Insight, 11 November 2010

Politics, sustainable energy security and the South

Insight, 02 September 2010

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Climate change adaptation