Nature-based solutions for climate change: from global ambition to local action
The world is facing two unprecedented environmental crises: biodiversity loss and climate change. The causes of these challenges are interrelated, as are the solutions.
Join IIED for an online event on 22 May, the International Day of Biological Diversity, to discuss how we can translate the global ambition around nature-based solutions for climate change into local action.
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Blog by Gabrielle Swaby
Developing a vision for The Gambia’s future
The Paris Agreement invites all countries to submit mid-century low-carbon, climate-resilient development strategies by 2020. Gabrielle Swaby chronicles The Gambia’s progress towards fulfilling this commitment.
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Guest blog by Fatima Denton
Will COVID-19 leave fuel-rich African countries gasping for breath?
As coronavirus takes its toll on Africa’s oil and gas-reliant economies, Dr Fatima Denton asks if recovery could herald an era of bold new thinking on economic diversification to reduce reliance on natural resources.
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People, Planet and Public Finance podcast
Four countries working together to get climate finance to the local level
Government and non-government institutions in Senegal, Mali, Tanzania and Kenya are working out the best and most inclusive way to get funding for sustainable climate investment to the local level.
Members of this devolved climate finance alliance share their experience in a new episode of the 'People, Planet and Public Finance' podcast from IIED and the International Budget Partnership.
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Webinar report
Gender inequalities in social protection
How can social protection schemes incorporate climate-resilience objectives and respond to the different needs of women and men? That was the topic under discussion at an online meeting hosted by IIED on 2 April 2020.
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Annual review
Delivering change
Women seaweed farmers in Zanzibar need to reach seaweed that, due to climate change, now grows in cooler, deeper waters. Read the story on page seven of our annual review to find out how we worked with partners to create platforms so these farmers' needs - such as swimming training - can be heard.
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Briefing
Calling for business unusual: mechanisms for delivering change
The climate finance system is failing to respond to the triple crises of poverty, nature and climate. This briefing outlines a climate finance system led by agile, flexible, pro-poor and locally led adaptation financing institutions that will facilitate more sustainable adaptation actions, and put decisions and resources into the hands of the people and places that need them most.
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Briefing
How can standardised evaluation metrics increase climate resilience?
Climate shocks are hitting the Least Developed Countries with increased frequency, undermining development progress and leaving communities even more vulnerable. Adaptation initiatives seeking to combat this are hindered by a lack of clear information about what works, where and for whom. This briefing proposes that evaluation practitioners adopt a common base method that would address the current deficiencies and enable iterative learning. With this, decision makers could improve adaptation project design and select interventions that best serve individual communities’ resilience needs.
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