by pennyurquhart | May 18, 2015 | adaptation, climate change, community-based adaptation
The Ninth International Conference on Community-based Adaptation – otherwise known as CBA9 – has come and gone, thankfully before the worst of the flooding experienced last week in Nairobi, where this year’s event was held. If the theme of CBA9 was...
by pennyurquhart | May 15, 2014 | adaptation, climate justice, community-based adaptation, Uncategorized
CBA8 – the 8th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation – has been and gone in Kathmandu. Concluding on 30th April 2014, it was a packed week of field visits and conference sessions involving over 400 participants that culminated in the...
by pennyurquhart | Dec 1, 2011 | environment
“In the negotiations, people are reading the same old statements that we have heard for two years” said Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at IIED, at a SADC networking dinner in Durban last night. As he spoke, my heart sank – it was back, that wave of...
