❗️SAVE THE DATE | 13 MAY 2024

REDAA is back with a 2nd grant call. We're offering programme grants for locally-led, research-to-action work that helps people and #nature thrive together.

Stay tuned for more info on eligibility criteria and how to apply▶️redaa.org

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: 'Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities' explores how climate change mitigation policies and practices can align with the imperative to secure social justice in cities and to support urban social movement agendas
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Is China’s rate of urbanisation too fast or too slow? --> iied.org/chinas-rate-ur…

Prof Bingqin Li discusses, is #China urbanising at an appropriate pace? This question has returned to policy debates repeatedly since the 1980s, with conflicting views aired throughout that time.

.IIED's Laura Kelly calls on World Bank, IMF and the G20 to deploy climate-and-nature swaps to ease sovereign debt crisis: iied.org/debt-swaps-cou… #ClimateChange Spring meetings a chance to reform 'colonialist, 20th-century thinking' that dominates our financial system

There are just 2 days left to submit your short film for this year's international community-based adaptation conference!

We want powerful videos showing the nuances of an issue, personal experiences of #ClimateChange or lessons from a project.

More: iied.org/cba18

How do #vulnerable communities in #Bangladesh view #climate risks, #adaptation priorities, and their own sense of #resilience ? 🇧🇩 ✊

Ground Truth Solutions, ICCCAD and IIED surveyed over 2300 citizens to shape future adaptation plans and policies ⬇️

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Pressures faced by a fisher community in the Philippines...

❌ Floating solar panels can disrupt water quality
❌ Dam construction can alter water flow/temp
❌ Shifts in lake ecology can affect fish stock availability and the livelihoods of communities.

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Simon Stiell highlights the need for climate finance to meet the needs of local populations across the developing world speaking at Chatham House. locally led adaptation principles #LLA offer a way to do this in practice.

Smallholder farmers in Viet Nam are making big strides in #climate adaptation with local, ecosystem-based solutions - from agroforestry innovations to eco-labelling schemes. 🌱💪

Kata Wagner highlights 6 ways to help them scale up their activities --> iied.org/how-smallholde…

In this short piece, Lorenzo Cotula and I offer a few thoughts on the ongoing #ISDS reform discussions, based on Malcolm Rogge's powerful documentary 'The Tribunal'

Algunas reflexiones sobre el gobierno del litio desde la perspectiva de las comunidades y la transición justa

Parte de mi proyecto Fondecyt 'Inversiones Extranjeras y Comunidades Locales', realizado junto con IIED
Lorenzo Cotula

Version en español: iied.org/es/una-transic…

We know we need dramatic #carbon cuts - but how to achieve them? We're proud to have helped draft the #ClubDeMadrid 's latest report, setting out recommendations for leaders across government, civil society, and business. clubmadrid.org/club-de-madrid…

ICYMI: The #CBA18 agenda is live! Join us from 6-9 May for 4 days of discussion, collaboration and interactive #ClimateAction .

Check out the agenda and register now! --> iied.org/cba18-agenda

Extracting minerals to power the so-called ‘green economy’ affects local communities in the global South - but their views are rarely considered.

Nicolás Perrone explores how lithium extraction from the Atacama Salt Flat affects the Lickanantay people: iied.org/just-energy-tr…