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Financing Local Adaptation
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A glimmer of hope ahead of COP26 – financing for adaptation
A newly formed group of champion countries committed to ramping up flows of adaptation finance brings promise − provided they can also improve access, explains guest blogger Angelique Pouponneau
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New Champions Group on Adaptation Finance launched amid call to accelerate adaptation finance
A new Champions Group on Adaptation Finance, launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2021, has issued a clear political commitment to work with developing countries to accelerate adaptation finance and invited other climate finance providers to join them.
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Climate finance not reaching the local level
IIED research has found that less than 10% of funding committed under international climate funds to help developing countries take action on climate change is directed at the local level
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Monitoring and evaluation in a local context
Assessing how climate change adaptation and development investments can strengthen local people's resilience to climate extremes
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Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap
Communities often know how to adapt to changes in the climate and extreme weather events but they lack access and control over the funds which could help them put these solutions into practice
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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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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
