Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) is an independent public research institute located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Our researchers work with partners around the world to study, understand and communicate global issues.

DIIS work on climate change adaptation includes collaborative research projects and studies on:

• Locally Led Adaptation and devolved climate finance
• Loss & Damage
• Everyday adaptation strategies and livelihoods
• Climate mobility and migration
• Climate change and resource conflicts

Our work seeks to combine in-depth research with practical policy outreach and public debate.

Latest:

1. The ambiguity of “climate change adaptation” and financing decisions in public budgets
2. Climate migration management?
3. Stakeholder interests disrupt climate finance coordination
4. Integrating bottom-up and top-down approaches in Tanzania’s climate change adaptation planning
5. Locally-led climate change adaptation works: Here are eight ways to support it
6. Locally-led adaptation: moving from principles to practice in the water sector
7. Financing Solid Climate Action: Locally Led Nature-Based Solutions
8. Bridging the gap in climate change financing to violent conflict affected areas
9. Governing climate mobility in Africa
10. Climate change adaptation as social navigation
11. Climate Change Adaptation and Land Tenure: Exploring pastoral adaptation strategies under communal and private land ownership in Kenya
12. Climate-related losses and damages to social cohesion are overlooked | DIIS