IIED at London Climate Action Week
14-20 November
This is the second series of London Climate Action Week events this year, with IIED again taking part following the successful series in July. This week of events falls on the dates when the UN climate summit (COP26) was originally scheduled, and is now a major milestone building momentum towards the rearranged summit in November 2021.
London Climate Action Week is an opportunity to bring forward the voices and amplify the climate actions of our partners on a global stage. Actors in the global South have a huge amount of experience on climate action, and it is crucial for us to learn from their work, so we can collectively make change happen.
Find out more about our events and register to attend.
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Climate change news and blogs
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Blog by Krystyna Swiderska and Philippa Ryan
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity
Modern food and farming systems are fundamentally unsustainable. A recent workshop hosted by IIED and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew explored how the way Indigenous Peoples grow and consume food holds answers to the world’s broken food system.
Read the blog from the workshop.
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Blog by Sam Greene
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 (CBA14).
Read the messages from the CBA14 online conference.
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Interview with Barry Smith
Using digital technology to engage citizens in climate action
Around 50 participants from the digital industry, government, community organisations, IIED and its partners joined a virtual dialogue recently to talk about how digital technology can be used to enhance the climate action led by social movements.
Barry Smith, a researcher in the climate change group in IIED, discusses the event in this recent Q&A.
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Blog by Binyam Yakob Gebreyes and Emilie Beauchamp
Can the Adaptation Committee find opportunity in adversity?
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a pause in climate negotiations, but it need not be time wasted. Binyam Gebreyes and Emilie Beauchamp consider how the Adaptation Committee is seizing the moment to tackle existing challenges, and how it could go further.
Read their blog.
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Climate change publications
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Working paper, 54 pages
Good climate finance guide: lessons for strengthening devolved climate finance
Society’s most marginalised people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is a key resource to help deal with the impacts of this crisis. This paper uses six criteria for ‘good climate finance’ to draw lessons and to understand where climate finance is being delivered effectively to support locally led solutions. It presents recommendations for how climate finance could better support local actors to access and deliver the climate finance that they need to build their own solutions.
Download the working paper.
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Research report, 104 pages
Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?
This report responds to concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations. Looking at the data available, we find that total levels of all forms of violence have been rising in the last ten years — especially in some countries in West and Central Africa. However, there is no evidence that incidents associated with farming and herding, or more generally incidents involving pastoralist populations, have grown at a faster rate than all other forms of violence.
Download the research report in English / en français.
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Briefing
Calling for business unusual: why local leadership matters
While most development interventions aim to benefit local people, they remain overwhelmingly top-down and exclude the perspectives of poor people. When funders do devolve resources, power over the purse strings often remains with international or national actors. Rather than building capabilities and giving people the agency to adapt to climate change, conserve their ecosystems and develop sustainably, this business-as-usual approach often entrenches the systemic issues that make people vulnerable. Funders must cede resources, rights and power to local actors, who are closer and more accountable to local people.
Download the briefing.
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Briefing
Disruptive resilience: an agenda for the new normal in cities of the global South
Urban centres across the world are unprepared for the ‘disruptive risks’ they now face. The compound impacts of COVID-19 and climate change are important examples of disruptive risks that are rendering existing risk-management systems and practices redundant. New kinds of data, modes of collaboration, financial mechanisms, innovation models and decision-making approaches are needed to bring a vision of ‘disruptive resilience’ to life and meet this challenge effectively. This briefing explores the need to address disruptive risk, proposes an agenda for moving this work forward and provides examples of fruitful approaches.
Download the briefing.
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