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Rwanda
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Untold stories: climate activism and the brutal realities of loss and damage
People in the least developed countries (LDCs) have done the least to cause the climate crisis. Yet they suffer its worst impacts. This online event saw activists in the Solomon Islands, Rwanda and Sierra Leone bring their unseen stories to life in a series of powerful animations
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Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
IIED launches the last of a three-part animation series that recounts the lived experience of climate change loss and damage, as told by Rwandan youth activist Ineza Umuhoza Grace
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Demanding attention for the loss and damage from climate change
Blogs, briefings, animations and practical guidebooks are some ways IIED and partners are getting the injustice of climate change loss and damage recognised in policy spaces
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Towards planet and people-positive agriculture in East Africa
IIED and partners are reviewing the state of planet and people-positive agriculture in Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda to identify entry points for environmentally sound agriculture and food systems that create social and economic benefits
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Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
On 9 September 2020, IIED and ICCCAD are hosting a webinar on climate-related loss and damage in the least developed countries. Ineza Umuhoza Grace reports on how climate change is impacting Rwanda
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Restorative insights at the pool in Kigali
A recent meeting in Rwanda concluded that enabling investment in business capacity development is vital to get small-scale forest entrepreneurs ready for 'asset investment' – and promote forest landscape restoration at scale
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Author Q&A: The political economy of low carbon resilient development
Neha Rai answers questions on a new book that highlights how low carbon resilient development approaches can reduce carbon emissions at the same time as increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change
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Why low-carbon urban development in African cities makes economic sense
City governments in East Africa are grappling with rapid urbanisation and widespread poverty. Pursuing low-carbon urban development could offer a many of benefits
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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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First steps in communication: raising awareness
A visit to Rwanda with the WAVES programme brings up the question of whether you should communicate when it seems you have nothing substantial to say
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How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?
Ethiopia, Rwanda and Bangladesh are developing their national low carbon climate resilient strategies. The public policy team within the Climate Change Group at IIED have just finished 18 months of research into these planning processes. The research helped clarify what is motivating countries to become more climate resilient. It also highlighted some ways these processes could be better supported and brought together.
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Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Progressive countries, including some of the world's poorest, are acting to green their economies and build resilience to climate change
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The private sector’s role in low carbon resilient development
How can the private sector be effectively engaged not just to reduce the long-term impacts of climate change, but also to help communities adapt to the changes they’re experiencing now?
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Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?
Rwanda hopes climate change will provide an opportunity to secure additional climate finance. Will its new finance mechanism succeed?
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Exploring how climate change interventions can work best to deliver more than the sum of their parts
Public sector planning plays a key role in making regions and countries resilient to climate change. But tackling climate change’s huge potential impacts will stretch limited public sector resources to the limit. With partners we are exploring how to use sequence and synchrony to make climate change planning, and public sector interventions, most effective — to help them deliver ‘more than the sum of their parts’.
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Five-nation study sheds light on costs of adapting agriculture to climate change
Research in Africa and Asia has shown that efforts to assess the costs of adapting agriculture to a changing climate often fail to reflect the diversity of the sector.
