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CBA17: event highlights

The 17th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA17) took place in Bangkok, Thailand from 22-25 May, 2023. Practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors discussed how locally led action can drive a climate-resilient future. This page contains updates direct from the event

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Four ways local organisations can use AI to support locally led adaptation and build resilience

Sam Greene
25 May 2023

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Climate action is being held back by ‘hidden handbrakes’

Tom Mitchell
18 May 2023

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New evidence shows the hidden value of improving housing in informal settlements

16 May 2023

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PCLG launches small grants initiative

15 May 2023

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Urbanising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

David Satterthwaite and David Dodman
15 May 2023

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Action on climate resilience is business critical

Tom Mitchell
12 May 2023

Focus on CBA17

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CBA17: event highlights

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CBA17 agenda

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CBA17: local solutions inspiring global action

Event on 22 May 2023

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Annual review 2022

In our 50th year, our locally rooted evidence spoke to entrenched issues, from loss and damage to national debt. Our annual review provides snapshots of activity and impact from the last 12 months.

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Scaling up locally led adaptation in Bangladesh: three action areas

Mobilising internal finance within a forest and farm producer organisation: a case study of the Santa Anita Savings and Credit Cooperative

Mobilising internal finance within a forest and farm producer organisation: a case study of the Masopo Women’s Club of Choma, Zambia

Urgent preventative action for climate-related suicides in rural India

Working with informality: constructive ways to transform food systems

Protecting against sovereign debt defaults under growing climate impacts: role for parametric insurance

Mobilising internal finance within a forest and farm producer organisation: a case study of the Jwa Ngwaane Community Cooperative Credit Union

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Global research priority tracker

New research by IIED Europe shines a spotlight on the policy priorities for the European Union as determined by experts from the Majority World

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IIED Europe Global Research Priority Tracker

EU policies and the Majority World

25 January 2023

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Our researchers are active on a range of projects under wider programmes of work to tackle the biggest global challenges...

Mobilising money to where it matters

A programme of work helping to initiate a positive shift in the quantity and quality of climate finance reaching the local level to support locally-led solutions that address climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss

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Housing justice

A programme of work producing knowledge and methodologies for housing policy and initiatives that promote wellbeing and sustainability in cities of the global South

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Localising forest-climate action

A programme of work engaging with locally-controlled forestry organisations to upscale effective climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation through the restoration of forest landscape biodiversity

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