July 2020

Climate change newsletter

IIED's climate change newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our research to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and community adaptation to climate change.

CBA14: local solutions inspiring global action

14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change

Join us for the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14), the leading practitioner-focused forum on climate adaptation, delivering dialogue and evidence to inform policy and action – from the local to the global scale.

CBA14 will take place online from 21-25 September 2020, bringing together practitioners, grassroots representatives, policymakers and donors for interactive discussions, workshops and skillshares.

Find out more and register to attend now

Climate change news and blogs

A solar-powered drying platform for fresh fish in Sudan as part of a programme to increase resilience and sustainability of local livelihoods (Photo: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Webinar series

LDCs and the Paris Agreement: moving from international commitments to national implementation

A series of webinars will bring together participants from least developed countries to discuss their strategies to implement the Paris Agreement and share their diverse experiences and lessons learned.

Find out more about the series

Register for the first webinar in the series:
'What does the Paris Agreement’s transparency framework mean for LDCs?', 11am (BST), 4 August

A sign sets out COVID-19 safety protocols introduced by local government in Muntinlupa City, Philippines (Photo: Minette Rimando, ILO via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Beyond COVID-19: grassroots visions of change

Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet

In this third report in our series on lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, we discuss the importance of greater interaction between people working on public health crises in cities and those managing the risks of climate change and disasters.

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New IIED evidence in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh shows that few MGNREGS officials or rural households use information about weather and the climate in their decision-making (Photo: Water Alternatives via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Blog by Ritu Bharadwaj

Why we need to plug the climate information gap in social protection schemes

Timely flow of climate information under the MGNREGS social protection programme could reliably warn communities of impending crises. Being prepared to respond to hazards can dramatically reduce risks of livelihood loss for India’s rural poor.

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Alok Sharma, the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and COP26 president gave a keynote speech in a discussion titled ‘Resilience in light of COVID-19: climate action on the road to COP26’, hosted by IIED and E3G during London Climate Action Week.

London Climate Action Week

Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19

At a recent event co-hosted by IIED and E3G, COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma said the world does "not have the luxury of time" to take urgent action to address the climate crisis.

Read the report and watch the video from the online event

Climate change publications

Working paper, 56 pages

Deepening knowledge of MGNREGS’ contribution to climate resilience: a study of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh

This working paper explores the extent to which India’s largest social protection programme – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGS) – helped households prepare, cope and recover from the 2018 summer drought across Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. As well as providing baseline information on the climate information services accessed, it offers practical guidelines for how the scheme can use climate information in its decisions and planning.

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IIED briefing papers

Climate change briefings

Closing the learning loop in locally led adaptation

Farmer-herder conflict in Africa: rethinking the phenomenon? / Conflit entre agriculteurs et éleveurs en Afrique : repenser le phénomène ?

Local institutions: resilient in the face of change? / Résilience institutionnelle face au changement

Wanted: latest advertised roles at IIED

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IIED jobs

We are advertising for a senior researcher to be our nature-climate policy lead and a researcher to work on inclusive blue and green economics:

Senior Researcher: Nature-Climate Policy Lead: apply by 6 August

Researcher (inclusive, green and blue economics): apply by 16 August