All Blog Posts Tagged 'IIED' (9)

A new CDKN briefing guide, ‘Climate Change and Poverty Reduction’ by Simon Anderson of IIED, explores how climate change is making it increasingly difficult to achieve and sustain development goals. Anderson suggests some basic principles to guide policy-makers in locking in and achieving further development gains in a changing climate.

The report’s key messages are:

• More variable climates are making it harder for the poor to climb out and stay out of…

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A major international conference in Bangladesh has ended with strong recommendations on how to help communities in developing countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

 

More than 300 participants from 60 countries attended the 5th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka this week.

 

The conference ended with calls for greater scientific analysis of adaptation at the community level, better communication of what…

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A small tax on international airline tickets could raise US$10 billion a year to help people to adapt to the impacts of climate change, say economists at the International Institute for Environment and Development.

 

Tom Birch and Muyeye Chambwera make the case for such a tax in a briefing paper to be published online on Monday 4 April, as the latest round of intergovernmental negotiations on how to tackle climate change get under way in Bangkok,…

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IIED has published a short briefing paper that explains the six key issues for governments to resolve at the COP16 climate-change negotiations that begin in Cancun, Mexico on 29 November.



Here’s a summary… and you can download the 4-page briefing paper here…



Summary - We must mitigate and adapt to climate change. On this, the international community is agreed. But exactly… Continue

Research published today shows that developed nations are failing to keep the promise they made last year to provide adequate finance to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to the impacts of climate change.



The paper — published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) — includes a five-point plan to enable developed nations to fulfil their pledges and build the trust needed to advance the next session of UN climate-change negotiations, which begin… Continue

The International Institute for Environment and Development is proud to make available an international edition of the documentary The Climate Game and the World’s Poor, which shows what happened when 193 governments tried – and failed – to agree a global deal to tackle climate change.



IIED is making this film available at no cost to television stations in any of the UN lists of Least Developed Countries or Small Island Developing States, as well… Continue

Rich nations’ pledges mean nothing without baselines, say academics



Academics warn that the industrialized world’s promise of billions of “new and additional” dollars to help developing nations tackle climate change is meaningless without a baseline from which to count new funds.



In a briefing paper published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), they outline two workable options for defining a baseline… Continue

On Tuesday 11 May, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard, will give a speech in London hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (for the 2010 Barbara Ward lecture, named after IIED’s founder).



You can follow the speech live online from 1pm UK time at the IIED website -- …

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IIED has today published a four-page briefing paper for journalists about the COP15 climate change summit that will take place in Copenhagen in December.



This briefing covers COP15, its build up and its aftermath. It explains key processes, major actions to be agreed and possible outcomes.



It has been reviewed by three international lawyers who sit on national delegations during UN negotiations.



It covers things like:

• The future of the Kyoto Protocol – do… Continue