Kate Wilson
Former publications and marketing manager, Communications
Twitter: @katewilson55Kate Wilson worked for IIED until July 2016
Kate Wilson's blog posts
As Valentine's Day approaches, IIED is feeling the love in the responses to a publications survey – but there are also valuable lessons to be learned.
Our four-day international conference on community-based adaptation to climate change starts today (27 April) in Nairobi, Kenya, and members of IIED's communication team will be on the ground throughout, keeping those unable to attend up to date and sharing the latest news and developments in community based adaptation.
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.
Is a problem shared a problem halved? This is the question that sprang to mind this week in Nepal when I met with fellow field trip participants ahead of the 8th international conference on community based adaptation to climate change (CBA8).
What's next for schemes that pay communities to protect local ecosystems? This is what leading researchers and practitioners in the field came together to discuss at IIED's conference in Edinburgh last week.