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CBA14 Setting the stage: from crisis to climate action
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced communities to adapt quickly. What can we learn from their experience that can inform community-led adaptation in the future?
The annual International Conference on Community-based Adaptation (CBA) puts practitioners’ solutions to climate change first, with the 14th conference taking place online in September. Ahead of that event, IIED and partners are hosting an online event on 21 July to ignite discussion, and showcase CBA’s themes and interactive, participatory approach.
This session will focus on what we can learn from community-led responses to COVID-19 and how it can shape future climate action. Join the conversation on 21 July.
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New series
Beyond COVID-19: grassroots visions of change
IIED is launching a new series of online articles that will synthesise global responses to the coronavirus pandemic and aim to set a holistic, cross-sector agenda for the future. The series will draw on our partners’ experiences and insights, and provide a platform for grassroots voices from across the Global South.
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"We’re pleased to offer a platform that can share lessons and insights from the Global South on COVID-19. We hope it can help to create multifaceted strategies that can better address this complex crisis."
– Anna Walnycki, senior researcher
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Make Change Happen podcast episode 6
Reimagining refugee futures: cities, not camps?
Ahead of the recent World Refugee Day, we discussed new IIED research comparing refugees’ experiences of life in urban areas to that in camps, and heard about an energy access project that captures some of the complexity of working with displaced people.
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Blog by Natalie Lartey
Why global development needs Black activism
IIED's Natalie Lartey discusses how Black activism can support new commitments to fight racism in the global development sector.
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Blog by Xiaoting Hou Jones and Yufen Chuang
Working with nature to build back better from COVID-19: inspirations from farmers in China
Guest blogger Yufen Chuang and IIED senior researcher Xiaoting Hou Jones reflect on why working with nature to adapt to climate change can offer valuable lessons on how to build back better from COVID-19.
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Project
Tackling the debt, climate and nature emergencies together
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, urgent debt relief is needed. This is an opportunity to change how debt relief is addressed and delivered. Over the next two years, IIED will be working to have creditors and receiving countries take up climate and nature programme swaps – a system that makes it possible to tackle the debt, climate change and nature emergencies together, in order to reduce poverty and ensure an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID recovery.
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Online events
IIED at London Climate Action Week
For the second year in a row, IIED and our partners are participating in London Climate Action Week, a series of events to discuss climate leadership and how to scale up solutions to the climate emergency. This year’s events discuss how to focus climate policy to build back better after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Project material, 24 pages
Agency and advocacy in the food systems of the majority: Food for thought from the Sustainable Diets for All programme
Interventions to improve the sustainability and nutrition of food can be misdirected when based on assumptions about people’s priorities and level of knowledge. This paper highlights lessons and insights gained from the Sustainable Diets for All (SD4All) programme about the opportunities, dilemmas and tensions of putting citizen agency — with an emphasis on low-income citizens — at the centre of advocacy and interventions, when supported by external development agencies.
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