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Development and Climate (D&C) Days
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D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
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Record attendance expected at first-ever virtual D&C Days alongside ‘pivotal’ COP meeting
Development and Climate Days 2021 kicks off today (November 9) with a record number of participants, bringing together grassroots leaders, researchers, development practitioners and policymakers to explore how to build a climate-resilient future for all
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Development and Climate Days 2021
Development and Climate Days 2021
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IIED at COP26
Our key research, commentary, analysis and events from the 2021 UN climate summit
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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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D&C Days 2019: five pathways to a climate-resilient future
Over the last decade, Development & Climate Days (D&C Days) has built a reputation for providing stimulating and interactive debate on topics and issues at the interface of development and climate change during the middle weekend of the UN climate change talks
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D&C Days 2019: Illumination amid ‘a sea of warnings’
The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre reports from the 2019 Development & Climate Days event, where IIED director Andrew Norton highlighted that "every year the remaining carbon budget for a safe world declines"
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Development and Climate Days 2019
Development & Climate (D&C) Days 2019 focuses on climate justice and key messages for climate negotiators. This page rounds up what happened
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D&C Days 2019: five themes for climate resilience for all
The 2019 Development & Climate Days event at COP25 will explore the ambitious plans and transformational systems that are needed to deliver climate resilience for all. This page provides more information on each of the themes of the event, and the ways you can join and contribute to the conversation
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"Follow the science": Least Developed Countries Group lead negotiator
The chair of the UNFCCC Least Developed Countries Group, Gebru Jember Endalew, called for climate action to be guided by science when he spoke at the closing of Development and Climate Days 2018
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"Half a degree matters" – D&C Days focuses on IPCC special report on global temperature-rise scenarios
The 2018 Development and Climate Days opened with a stark warning: "We don’t have 12 years to save the world; in fact we probably have 12 minutes"
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Development and Climate Days 2018
This year's Development and Climate (D&C) Days event explored four themes that are vital for delivering climate resilience for all
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Climate change: "The biggest social injustice of our generation"
IIED director Andrew Norton told the Development & Climate Days audience in Bonn that climate change is "the biggest social injustice of our generation"
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Transparency and accountability in the Paris Agreement: eight questions climate negotiators must tackle
Transparency and downward accountability, arguably key aspects to delivering the Paris Agreement, will be one of four themes explored at this year's Development & Climate Days (D&C Days). Simon Anderson sets out some tough questions and explains how session outcomes will seek to influence the COP23 climate negotiations and beyond
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Development & Climate Days 2017
The Development & Climate (D&C) Days event at COP23 explored four key themes towards climate resilience for all
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Development & Climate Days 2016
This year's Development and Climate (D&C) Days event had the theme 'Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for all'
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Breaking out of the development silos
Many of the world’s least developed countries, hit hard by the impacts of climate change, are among the front-runners in finding ways forward for climate-friendly economic development, Fatima Denton has told IIED
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Zero carbon – costs and opportunities for Least Developed Countries
The zero carbon, zero poverty agenda at Development & Climate Days is challenging for all countries. For the Least Developed Countries the costs are high, but the opportunities may be even greater
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Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
Development & Climate Days in Paris, France, heard that we are entering a new era in which we must achieve global solidarity for climate justice, CDKN's Mairi Dupar reports
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May we suggest a cricket crostini? Mealworm chocolates?
A session at the Development and Climate Days conference looked at the potential of insects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production.
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Participants in Development & Climate Days focus on "bold action needed now"
More than 200 policymakers, scientists and development practitioners urged immediate and bold climate action on the first day of the 2015 Development & Climate Days
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Least Developed Country experts raise their voices at COP21
Members of IIED's Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group will be at D&C Days in Paris as well as playing an active role at COP21
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2015 Development & Climate Days: tough talk on crucial transitions
This year’s Development & Climate (D&C) Days event in Paris delivered "tough talk on poverty and climate" and focused on the key transitions needed to tackle climate change and eradicate poverty by 2030
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IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21)
IIED attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris from November 30 to 11 December, 2015.
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Development & Climate Days: the history
This annual D&C Days gathering links the issues of climate change and development, and promotes dialogue, information sharing and informal discussion at the United Nations climate change talks
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Development and Climate Days event at COP20 focuses on zero-zero
An IIED-hosted event looks at how to get to zero poverty and zero emissions within a generation
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Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
IIED director Camilla Toulmin reflects on her trip to Lima for the COP20 Development and Climate Days
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Sound Art competition explores rising sea levels, response to eco-crisis
The 2014 Development Climate Days Story and Sound Art competition invited entrants to produce sound compositions that depict rising sea levels
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Winning entry of 'My Story' competition says extreme weather affects Mexican festivals
The winner of a competition to write a blog on how dealing with the impacts of climate change affects everyday life highlights how rainfall hampers the celebration of Mexican festivals
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D&C Days in Lima to highlight 'historic opportunity' to reduce poverty and emissions to zero (#zerozero)
Extreme poverty and the impacts of climate change can be overcome by far-sighted, joined-up action on both at once, the Development and Climate Days event at UN climate talks in Peru will hear
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IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
The full programme of IIED activity at COP20 in December 2014, including video blog updates and round ups of the coverage from each day
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IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
The full programme of IIED activity at COP19 this November, including video blog updates.
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Can beans and dice change lives? The potential of serious, fun games
The power of games to get people thinking about their climate vulnerability was revealed this weekend at Development & Climate Days.
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Playing climate change — can games unblock the negotiations?
Everyone loves a game. Putting some fun into the serious subject of climate change can be a powerful way to explain risk and the hard choices we face.
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IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit
Qatar hosted the 18th UN climate summit. IIED researchers attended the talks and supported negotiators from the Least Developed Countries
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United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
IIED was the summit in Durban, sharing learning from our research, training journalists and providing analysis of the unfolding events
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Hope from action
As climate-related impacts become more frequent and extreme, the primary preoccupation of a progressive global society should be to protect the more vulnerable amongst us – countries and individual
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Development and Climate days at COP17
The 2011 Development and Climate (D&C) Days event focused on “evidence-based adaptation planning”.
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Development and Climate Days Film Competition 2011
We're pleased to announce that Ripples, a film about climate change and disaster management in Bangladesh, by Soren Vestergaard Neilsen, for RDRS Bangladesh was the winner of our Development and Climate film competition.
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Development and Climate Days COP16
The 2010 Development and Climate (D&C) Days focused on supporting the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge by practitioners and researchers from developing countries
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2009 Development and Climate Days film festival highlights
The film festival that was held as part of the 2009 Development and Climate (D&C) Days was a popular feature of the four-day event.The short films represented the work of amateur and independent film-makers. Many of the films demonstrated the impacts of climate change on vulnerable regions and population groups, as well as adaptation and action measures. Numerous film makers were present at D&C Days and participated in discussions about their work.
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Action stations: vulnerable countries and the talks
‘What we need to do is stop talking,’ said President Nasheed of the Maldives.
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Moving right along: climate change and migration
Day 2 of Development and Climate Days: Justice, Ethics and Humanitarian Issues
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Thank you for the days...
Amid the debates swirling round this conference with cyclonic intensity is one very big question: how can the world’s most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change with such a serious shortfall in targeted funding? Oxfam estimates the task as demanding US$50 billion a year — some US$49 billion more than what’s actually available.
