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Community-Based Adaptation (CBA)
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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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CBA15: Four messages ahead of COP26
The annual international conferences on community-based adaptation (CBA) are unique events where adaptation practitioners, researchers, donors and decision-makers come together with grassroots community representatives and engage in open, dynamic conversations about how best to drive locally-led adaptation to climate change. This year’s event, CBA15, saw more than 400 people from more than 60 countries discuss how adaptation that is inclusive and locally led can be delivered in practice. This blog shares highlights from these exchanges
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UK minister says enabling more locally led adaptation is a key aim for COP26
The UK's COP26 Adaptation and Resilience Champion Anne-Marie Trevelyan says enabling more locally led adaptation informed by inclusive plans is a critical part of what the UK wants to achieve at this year's UN climate talks
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Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
CBA15 is the leading practitioner-focused forum on climate change adaptation, delivering dialogue and evidence to inform policy and action from the local to the global scale. More than 400 people from almost 70 countries gathered online for learning, networking and creative dialogue. This page brings you daily highlights from the five-day conference
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CBA15 opens with LDC chair warning that 2021 is a critical year for action
The chair of the Least Developed Countries Group on climate change has warned that while the world’s attention has been on COVID-19, the crises on climate, biodiversity loss and poverty continue – and the stakes have never been higher than today
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Q&A: CBA15 innovation theme highlights transformative change
This year’s International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA15) has a new theme: innovation for adaptation. Here Chris Henderson and Susan Nanduddu explain why innovation is needed and preview some of the sessions on offer
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Q&A: CBA15 – is your climate innovation hot enough for the Dragons’ Den?
Juliet Grace Luwedde, joint winner of the Dragons’ Den contest at the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA14), talks about her experience, what she learned, what she gained and how we can make this year's Dragons’ Den event even better
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CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?
Innovation will be key in bouncing forward from COVID-19 and delivering on the ambitions of the 'super year' – to protect nature, tackle poverty and accelerate climate action. The CBA community will be ready to hold decision-makers accountable on the commitments they make this year
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CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action
CBA15 provided a hub for people who are on a pathway to climate-resilient, low-emission and sustainable development and want to thrive in the face of climate change
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Become a partner at CBA15
Partners are the lifeblood of the CBA event; without their support the conference would simply not take place!
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Local must lead action to tackle world’s multiple interconnected challenges
Sam Greene distils key messages drawn from lively online dialogue with the 500-plus participants from over 70 countries who joined the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to climate change
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Community solutions for a nature-based, resilient future beyond COVID-19
Globally, COVID-19 has claimed more than one million lives and disrupted even more. At the same time, locust swarms have ravaged farms in Africa, forest fires are devastating the west coast of the United States and floods have affected many people in Asia. It’s a stern reminder that we must work better with nature to avoid greater spread of disease and natural disasters
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CBA14 closing: UK minister urges countries to allocate more finance to nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change
UK international environment minister Zac Goldsmith says there is no pathway to net zero emissions without a major effort to protect and restore nature
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CBA14 opens with LDC chair call for greater ambition on climate change
The chair of the Least Developed Countries negotiating group on climate change warns that climate change impacts are “clear and increasing” and calls for increased urgency and ambition to protect communities
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Organisers offer busy events programme in the countdown to CBA14
The organisers of CBA14 are hosting a range of innovative side events in the run-up to the main CBA conference – including many sessions that are open to everyone
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Q&A: Are you ready for the Dragon’s Den at CBA14?
For over 15 years, ther vibrant and growing community-based adaptation (CBA) community of practice has come together to develop practical, innovative, locally-driven initiatives to support communit
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Twitter chat: CBA14 – from local solutions to global action
Join IIED and Practical Action for a Twitter chat on 8 September to discuss how to scale up local climate action. The Twitter chat will use the hashtag #CBA14
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Introduction to the CBA14 Dragon’s Den
Do you have a business idea for a project that you want to develop further? Do you want to update and test your pitching skills by working together with your peers?
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Event highlights: CBA14 – 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
CBA14 is the leading practitioner-focused forum on climate change adaptation, delivering dialogue and evidence to inform policy and action, from the local to the global scale. Read our daily reports from CBA14 below.
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CBA14 preview event uses climate cartoons to trigger discussions
More than 300 participants from 50 countries participated in an innovative digital meeting previewing this September’s International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA14)
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CBA14 conference agenda
Explore the conference agenda of sessions at the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14)
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CBA14 Setting the stage: from crisis to climate action
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced communities to adapt quickly. What can we learn from their experience that can inform community-led adaptation in the future?
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CBA14: From local solutions to global action
The 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change took place online and was a chance to meet fellow practitioners, listen to local perspectives and share experiences of effective solutions for building resilience to climate change
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Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
The 14th community-based adaption event (CBA14) will call on local communities to use their collective power to hold climate decision makers to account
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Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
From a smallholder farming community in south-central Ethiopia come inspiring stories of adaptation and resilience in the face of climate change
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CBA13: bringing key messages to the global stage
The 2019 international conference on Community-Based Adaptation saw more than 300 practitioners, policy makers and researchers discussing how to build a climate resilient future. The key messages from CBA13 have been published today: they present a vital opportunity to get local-level climate change adaptation onto the international agenda.
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Climate adaptation: its time is now
As adaptation shares more of the limelight, champions of community-based adaption have messages on three key areas that international policymakers must hear
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CBA13: event highlights
The 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) took place in Addis Ababa in April 2019. Organisers say this gathering was a vital opportunity to get local-level adaptation on the international climate-change agenda. This page brings you coverage of the event
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Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
Guest blogger Gebru Jember Endalew sets out key questions for the adaptation community to be tackled at this year’s community-based adaptation event (CBA13) taking place in Addis Ababa
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CBA conferences: what's so good about them?
As we get ready for CBA13, find out what participants say about attending CBA conferences
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CBA13: Adaptation finance – show us the money
Nisha Krishnan and Stephen Porter will lead the ‘climate finance’ theme at this year’s community-based adaptation event. In this Q&A they discuss what’s in store
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CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
The pressure is on: this year’s flagship event in Ethiopia is a crucial opportunity for getting local adaptation solutions firmly on the global climate policy radar
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CBA13: Local solutions inspiring global action
The 13th international conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) took place in Ethiopia from 1-4 April 2019. It had the theme: "Local solutions inspiring global action'
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EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
In Peru IIED, IUCN and ANDES are using practical experiences of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in mountain ecosystems, learning and reflecting on their effectiveness, and contributing to the ongoing country efforts to position and mainstream EbA into national climate change and development policies.
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How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?
Delegates to this week's UN High Level Political Forum on sustainable development will be considering the subject of resilience. Clare Shakya highlights some of the insights from CBA12 in Malawi that are relevant
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The International Centre for Climate Change and Development
Building long term capacity for adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh and across the Global South
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CBA12: Key messages
CBA12 took place in Lilongwe, Malawi from 11-14 June 2018. Adaptation practitioners, researchers, policymakers and investors met to discuss how to promote local action on climate change. This page contains the key messages from the three workstreams developed from three days of collaborative work, plus summaries of the daily activities at the event
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CBA12: Local experience driving climate action
Malawi hosted this year's CBA event from 11-14 June 2018, when experts in locally-driven climate action shared innovation, skills and knowledge on how to get climate finance behind what works
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CBA12 Day 3: How can we drive investment to locally-driven adaptation?
Day 3 of CBA12 will focus on investing in locally-driven adaptation. In this Q&A, IIED’s Nanki Kaur discusses the challenges and opportunities around this new field of investment and tells us more about the day’s sessions when hopefuls working with local communities will pitch real-life proposals to investors in a ‘dragons den’
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Sharing knowledge on climate change adaptation in Brazil
The AdaptaClima online knowledge platform supports effective adaptation to climate change in Brazil by allowing users to share information and tools online
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Tiempo
Tiempo was a printed bulletin published quarterly by IIED and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state
Devolved climate finance programmes incorporate local knowledge and community priorities into decisions about how climate finance is planned and budgeted. At CBA12, practitioners will discuss the different components of these programmes, exploring the environment when they are most effective and why, and sharing experiences from several contexts
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Q&A: What’s new about this year’s CBA event?
This year's CBA event takes place from 11-14 June 2018. We asked the organisers about how this year's gathering will benefit the CBA community of practice
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Book summary: Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation – Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development
Essam Yassin Mohammed, of IIED, and Zenebe Bashaw Uraguchi, co-edit 'the book Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation: Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development'
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Book summary: Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries Through Community Based Adaptation
IIED's Saleemul Huq contributes to a chapter in a new book, 'Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries Through Community-Based Adaptation', published by the African Centre for Technology Studies and partners.
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Building our shared learning on climate action in Kampala
At the upcoming community-based adaptation conference in Kampala, our vibrant and growing community of practice will reflect on today's geopolitics around climate and development, and consider how we can be more influential in driving action on adaptation and resilience in the post-Paris world
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Making ecosystems resilient through Bangladesh's Delta Plan
Ahead of CBA11 this month, a government policy planner in Bangladesh makes the case for integrating ecosystems-based adaptation in the country's main long-term geospatial plan
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Field visits to highlight community-based adaptation in Uganda
Participants at CBA11 will have chance to see first-hand how communities in Uganda are adapting to the impacts of climate change. David Nkwanga highlights some of the types of schemes that will be on show
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The 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA11)
The 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA11) focused on harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation
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CBA10 field trips: adaptation in practice
The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation offered field trips to see how people in urban environments are taking practical steps to deal with the impacts of climate change. IIED's Matt Wright reports
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Is community-based adaptation suited to cities?
In the week of the urban-themed 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation, we ask what is needed for this approach to succeed in urban spaces
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CBA10 side events
CBA10 will feature a range of side events alongside the main conference on community-based adaptation
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2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2)
Leading climate experts discussed climate change and adaptation at a major conference in Dhaka
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1st International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA1)
In January 2005, IIED and partners organised the first major conference on community-based adaptation (CBA) in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
Ahead of the 10th conference on community-based adaptation (CBA10), to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh this year, Saleemul Huq highlights some of the lessons learned from organising these events
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Global Initiative on Community-Based Adaptation (GICBA)
The Global Initiative on Community-Based Adaptation (GICBA) initiative was launched by IIED in 2010 to allow collaboration between organisations and individuals working on community-based adaptation to climate change
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Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation
Ecosystem management and restoration can be a very important part of climate change adaptation, and communities can play a central role in the process, but the evidence base needs strengthening. IIED and partners are working in 12 countries to promote effective EbA and sustainable development.
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Shadows in the child's memories
The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation featured stanzas as well as sessions and statements; rhyme as well as reason. Here, guest poet Evah Wanjiru shares some environmental verse based on her experiences in Kenya
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CBA9 highlights – day four
The production of the Nairobi Declaration on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change was the headline news on the fourth and final day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 30 April
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Community-based adaptation (CBA) conference archive
Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take action. IIED and its partners have organised a series of international conferences on community-based adaptation to enable practitioners, governments and donors to share latest developments and best practice
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Introduction to community-based adaptation to climate change
Poor and vulnerable people are particularly affected by climate change impacts, such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather events. For decades, IIED has worked to help share knowledge developed by local communities, academics and project managers so that communities can better cope with climate change.
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CBA9 highlights – day three
Ecosystem-based adaptation was at the top of the agenda on the third day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 29 April
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Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference
Bangladesh has become a "poster child" for adaptation work. For people working at a national level, attending CBA9 provides an opportunity to learn and share experiences internationally
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CBA9 highlights – day two
There was a focus on learning through game-playing on the second day of the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) in Nairobi on 28 April
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Slaughterhouse five
Guest blogger Hannah Reid reports back from a CBA9 field trip where she discovered how a slaughterhouse can help fight climate change
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CBA9 highlights – day one
Judi Wakhungu, Cabinet Secretary of Environment, Water and Natural Resources for the Government of Kenya, gave the keynote address as the 9th International Community-Based Adaptation Conference (CBA9) got under way in Nairobi on 27 April
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A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
As CBA9 delegates convene in Nairobi, Pablo Suarez, associate director at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre reflects on what makes the conference a regular event in his calendar
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How to be heard at CBA9
IIED's communications team is providing comprehensive coverage from the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9). Kate Wilson outlines why such global exposure is important
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CBA9 highlights – pre-conference field trips
A round-up of the CBA9 participants' experiences and photographs during a series of field trips to experience at first hand issues related to community-based adaptation to climate change and measuring and enhancing effective adaptation
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CBA9: 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9)
The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA9) took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 24-30 April, 2015, hosted by the Government of Kenya
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Voices of people with disabilities must be heard in climate change adaptation debate
We need to strengthen the capacity of people with disabilities so they can access the resources needed to adapt to climate change, says the Kathmandu Declaration that was launched last month
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Kathmandu Declaration: recommendations for financing communities most vulnerable to climate change
At the close of the 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA8) in April 2014, delegates released a declaration that called for a radical shift in flows of finance to ensure the most vulnerable communities can adapt to climate change
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Toulmin: More power to the people to tackle climate change
Watch a series of speeches from the opening and closing ceremonies of CBA8, including those by IIED director Camilla Toulmin, the Nepal Prime Minister and Christiana Figueres
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Can voodoo help to resolve climate change?
What will you bring to the table to address the challenges of climate change? Emilie Parry, a volunteer at CBA8, draws comparisons between her recent experiences in Nepal and her time in Haiti
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Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
As everyone increasingly experiences changes associated with a warming planet, does a global phenomenon like climate change affect people in the same way?
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Conference ends with declaration on finance for community-based adaptation to climate change
Delegates at 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA8) have released a declaration that calls for a radical shift in flows of finance to ensure the most vulnerable communities can adapt to climate change
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Investing in adaptation to climate change brings bonus benefits
Is a problem shared a problem halved? This is the question that sprang to mind this week in Nepal as participants of CBA8 met for the pre-conference field trips
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CBA8: 8th conference on community-based adaptation to climate change
Over 400 participants from more than 60 countries attended IIED's 8th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to climate change (CBA8) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014. Hundreds more followed the event and interacted via live web streamed video, comments and social media. The conference shared the latest developments in community-based adaptation financing, planning and best practices
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Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
Proponents of community-based adaptation to climate change need to put communities in the driving seat, says Anju Sharma
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7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA7)
Over 250 participants attended IIED's 7th community-based adaptation to climate change conference (CBA7) in Dhaka, Bangladesh in April 2013, with many more taking part virtually through a live blog which featured live web streamed video, comments and social media
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Virtual conferences: not in the future, but now
In this digitally connected world, could virtual participants meaningfully follow and take part in an IIED conference, cutting carbon footprints and expense?
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Vulnerable communities tackling climate change are our best teachers
The poorest communities (and poorest countries) are leading the world in learning about and practising adaptation to climate change. The rich would do well to learn from them.
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Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh
This long-term action-research project is learning from and providing support to vulnerable communities in Bangladesh as they adapt to climate change. The project aims to use rigorous research to identify proven adaptation strategies that can be scaled up and replicated in many locations.
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Learning how to adapt to climate change: advocacy, training and capacity building
IIED works to help support southern countries as they adapt to climate change and the extreme weather events it brings. We do this by supporting partner organisations and experts that offer climate change adaptation training, advocacy and capacity building.
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Empowering communities to adapt to climate change
Many communities that are vulnerable to climate change impacts have been dealing with climate variability for decades and have a wealth of knowledge about how to adapt. Community-based adaptation to climate change focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making processes to take action.
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A tale of typhoons, trees and tiny creatures that stood between a community and climate resilience
We were in Da Loc commune, a sleepy part of Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province. It’s a place that on a single day witnessed both the fury and the protective power of nature.
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6th Conference on community-based adaptation to climate change
More than 300 climate change specialists from 60 countries gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 6th Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change in April 2012
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Creating a communication buzz in Zimbabwe
Mobile lectures, a mock newsroom tussle between journalists competing for their editor’s attention, and imagining a day in the life of policymakers and poor farmers were just some of the innovative elements of two workshops on climate change communication run by IIED in Zimbabwe in February 2011.
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5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5)
The 5th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA5) took place in Bangladesh in March 2011. The event, which attracted nearly 400 participants, had the theme "Scaling up: beyond pilots"
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CBA 2011: conference feedback
The Fifth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from Monday, 28 to Thursday, 31 March 2011. Participants, represented NGOs, government, international organisations, and academia. Here are some of the things they had to say.
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Reality check: climate change and the poor
Hannah Reid reports on a field trip to a site in Manikganj District, about three hours from Dhaka city in Bangladesh, to see how vulnerable people are coping with climate-change related impacts
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Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
Climate change adaptation may cost US$75–100 billion per year between 2010 and 2050. Where these funds will come from, how they will be channelled and how adaptation should be achieved is still being debated. I propose part of the solution is to go micro: linking microfinance with community-based adaptation.
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IIED Insights: Q&A with Hannah Reid on community based adaptation
Climate change is set to significantly impact people and the environment. Rising temperatures will change crop growing seasons and impact food security. Changing rainfall patterns will cause water shortages or flooding in some areas. And rising sea levels means a greater risk of storm surges, flooding and wave damage for coastal regions across the world.
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Afloat: Bangladesh adapts to climate change
'Afloat', a film from IIED and Panos, shows how in Bangladesh they are combining tradition and innovation to adapt to climate change
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Community-Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA)
This project helped communities in Africa think and communicate about climate change and adaptation, and to share their experiences with stakeholders
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4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4)
The 4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4) to climate change took place in February 2010 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Beyond buzzwords: making adaptation a development norm
Day 1 of IIED’s Development and Climate Days: Land, Water and Forests
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3rd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA3)
Donor agencies, international NGOs and research institutes from more than 50 countries agreed to set up a new initiative to help the world's poorest adapt to climate change at the 3rd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA3)
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Haramata Communications Initiative
Haramata – bulletin of the drylands – published issues from 1988 to 2010. It established itself as a valuable information and networking channel for people working for the sustainable development of dryland areas, mainly but not exclusively in Africa
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Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
The farmers of southern Bangladesh have seen it all: cyclones, catastrophic flooding, silted-up rivers and creeping salination. Their South Asian homeland — a wedge of the tropics regularly exposed to searing heat and heavy monsoons — is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries on Earth.
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Film festival 2007: Community-based adaptation
Community based adaptation to climate change from around the world. A mini film festival took place as a side event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP13)
