Items tagged:
Climate resilience
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Envisioning a better future for The Gambia
The Gambian environment minister outlines a better future for his country, where climate action and sustainable development go hand in hand
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Book summary: Resilience reset − creating resilient cities in the global South
A book co-authored by IIED’s Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner of SOAS makes the compelling case for a "resilience reset" – to take stock and chart a new path to enhance resilience in the world’s towns and cities, particularly in the global South
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Rethinking urban climate resilience: time for a reset?
Aditya Bahadur and guest blogger Thomas Tanner discuss their new book which explores the changing nature of climate risk in towns and cities and explains why existing approaches for tackling this risk need a shake-up
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Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
Evidence shows that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) can help increase people's resilience and ability to adapt to climate change. However, policy-makers have not adopted this approach as widely as they could. Following a recent CBA15 event, Gabriela Flores outlines three ways communications could help increase EbA uptake.
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Argentinian city Rosario wins award for urban sustainability
The World Resources Institute Ross Centre ‘Prize for Cities’ competition has awarded its grand prize to the municipality of Rosario, to recognise major progress in building climate resilience and equity through urban agriculture
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Policymakers take note: climate displacement is driving millions into slavery
Many factors force people into slavery; but climate change as a driver is largely ignored in policy and planning
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
Twenty-five years after the landmark UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, gender equality has not been achieved anywhere. Tracy Kajumba and Clare Shakya reflect that if we want to transform society, we need a radical new approach, starting with the way we respond to climate change
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2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries
Evolving and overlapping global crises hit the world’s most vulnerable nations the hardest. Now, more than ever, world leaders must demonstrate solidarity and support with concrete action
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Climate justice needs vaccine justice
Andrew Norton reflects on the inequalities faced by developing countries in accessing vaccines and says the world needs fair and inclusive responses to the pandemic in order to effectively respond to climate change and achieve a green recovery
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Participatory toolkits help rural marginalised communities make their voices heard on climate change
The Pamoja Voices toolkits enable people and communities in Tanzania and Zanzibar to articulate their priorities for building resilience to climate change
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Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
This year’s climate change summit may be postponed, but the 18th annual D&C Days will go ahead in an online format at the start of December
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Thriving and just societies: integrating climate, nature and development in a COVID-19 green recovery
COVID-19 has exposed deep inequalities in our society. This event on 17 November brought together experts to discuss integrated action on climate, nature and development, in the context of a green recovery from the pandemic
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Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet
In this third report in our series on lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, we discuss the importance of greater interaction between people working on public health crises in cities and those managing the risks of climate change and disasters
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Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19
COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma last week said the world does "not have the luxury of time" to take urgent action to address the climate crisis
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City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
City leaders from around the world are meeting in Abu Dhabi for the 10th World Urban Forum on sustainable urbanisation (8-13 February). IIED director Andrew Norton and Maimunah Mohd Sharif, executive director of UN-Habitat, highlight the need for leaders to work with residents of informal settlements in order to prepare for the impacts of climate change
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Least Developed Countries launch 2050 Vision for a climate-resilient future
The world’s least developed countries have launched a long-term strategy for climate resilience and net zero emissions by 2050
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LDC 2050 Vision for a climate-resilient future
The world's least developed countries have set out their response to the climate challenge, with a long-term vision for 2050 that aims to ensure that no country is left behind
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Join us for the 17th Development & Climate Days at COP25
Registrations have opened for Development & Climate Days 2019 at COP25
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IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
This page summarises the activities of IIED, its researchers and partners around the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in September
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Author Q&A: Resilience – the science of adaptation to climate change
Saleemul Huq discusses a new book exploring the term ‘resilience’ – one of today’s hottest buzzwords in climate and development. The book includes a chapter he has co-authored with researchers Yousuf Mahid and Nadine Suliman from the International Centre for Climate Change and Development
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Snapshots of a changing world – climate change impacts in Bangladesh
On a recent visit to Bangladesh, IIED director Andrew Norton saw first-hand the impacts of climate change and efforts to build resilience
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Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
Vincent Mutie Nzau from the National Treasury of Kenya highlights how innovative approaches to disaster risk finance can help communities manage climate uncertainty
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Using social learning to address climate uncertainties
Uncertainty about the speed and impacts of climate change makes it difficult to design and implement policies that are resilient to long-term climate shocks and stresses. Institutional processes based on social learning offer a flexible approach that can help to address uncertainty and complexity, and enable effective climate responses
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Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Approaches developed in Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania offer insights for building resilience in areas facing risks of climate change, disasters and conflict
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Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Farah Kabir discusses how the Least Developed Countries have been driving their own sustainable development, and outlines what's needed for these vulnerable countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Finance for inclusive investment in climate resilient development
Inclusive investment that allows the poorest to invest in climate-resilient development requires practical solutions, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda points the way, says Nanki Kaur
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The political economy of financing climate resilient development
IIED is undertaking a three-year research programme to understand the policy linkages between the two themes of climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This research focuses on countries that are investing in what has been termed 'low-carbon climate resilient development' (LCRD) – policies and strategies that address the challenges posed by climate change in an integrated response.
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Farming on the city's periphery to enhance resilience
Farming land on the edge of the Gorakhpur, India, can help boost the city's flood defences, support livelihoods and reduce migration, finds guest blogger Nivedita Mani
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Reaching those that need it most: learnings for climate finance programmes
Representatives from Nepal, Bangladesh, Rwanda and Ethiopia, including government stakeholders' researchers, civil society groups and multilateral bodies, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), this week discussed how climate finance can better reach the people who need it most – the poorest in society
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From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Supporting government engagement with communities in Tanzania has identified three key ways in which the government can improve climate resilient planning
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Ten projects receive funding for research into climate change resilience
Ten organisations have been selected to receive IIED funding for research into helping Asian cities adapt to climate change
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Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries
The Gambia's Special Climate Envoy, Pa Osman Jarju, reflects on the Least Developed Countries (LDC) leadership at the UN Climate Summit
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Low carbon resilience in the least developed countries: a panacea to address climate change?
Instead of talking about climate change mitigation or adaptation, low carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate policy.
