This paper explores different mechanisms for delivering climate finance at the local level, with examples from Ethiopia and Kenya. It aims to understand how well these funds take into account the priorities of local communities, and incorporate national climate change policies and development plans.

The book synthesises the ESPA programme's compelling evidence on ecosystems and wellbeing. It addresses the evolving framings and contexts of ecosystem services for poverty alleviation, reviews the impacts of ongoing drivers of change and presents new ways to achieve sustainable wellbeing, equity, diversity, and resilience.

In Kenya, local people are conserving their mangroves in exchange for community development projects, in a scheme that is impacting both Kenyan and international policy. Mangroves are highly efficient at capturing carbon, much of which ends up buried below ground and is stored away from the atmosphere.

Prof. Charlotte de Fraiture of the CCMCC 'Investing in Land and Water' project discusses the complexity of conflict and cooperation, how assumptions made around climate financing need to be addressed while conducting research, and how collaboration resulted in learning across and between scales.

This BRACED policy brief explores how insurance can support smart decisions around risk reduction and adaptation to support the most vulnerable.