Climate finance

Rwanda: test case on international commitment to financing climate change adaptation?

A Rwandan farmer checks his coffee beans. A banana tree is visible behind him.
6 March 2013
Blog entry
Climate change
Policy and planning
Rwanda hopes climate change will provide an opportunity to secure additional climate finance. Will its new finance mechanism succeed?

Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds

Solar panels on a floating school, Bangladesh
17 December 2012
Article
Climate change
Policy and planning
IIED is examining the ideas, resources and ‘power dynamics’ that shape how the Climate Investment Funds achieve development impacts. Together, these factors make up the ‘political economy’, and examining them will help governments and development organisations understand how climate investment funds can best bring about the transformational change the funds aim for.

Tracking adaptation and measuring development

Street market in Pakistan
17 December 2012
Article
Climate change
Policy and planning
Countries need new tools to check whether climate change adaptation is keeping development on-track, and whether costs and benefits are fairly distributed. IIED and partners are developing a framework that does this by assessing risk management and resilience at many levels.

How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?

Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
6 December 2012
Blog entry
Climate change
Governance
Policy and planning
IIED and its partners are developing tailored frameworks to help developing countries evaluate their climate adaptation investments.

Rich nations fail to meet 8 climate-finance pledges analysis shows

Men survey a flooded road in Kenya.
26 November 2012
Media release
Climate change
Rich nations score poorly on climate finance in most detailed analysis to date and have failed to keep promises to provide poorer ones with funds to tackle climate change.

Taking the long view on adaptation

12 December 2011
Blog entry
Climate change

The impacts of climate change do not happen overnight but play out over decades. Funders looking to support people to adapt to those impacts must take the long view and accept that their investments may not provide measurable outcomes for ten years or more.

Three ways Durban climate conference can ensure rich world meets finance promises

21 November 2011
Media release
Climate change

A briefing paper published today (21 November) by IIED outlines three steps to ensure developed countries meet their agreed commitments to help poorer nations adapt to climate change.

Multi-billion dollar climate change fund hits barrier

20 October 2011
Media release
Climate change

Plans for a multi-billion dollar fund to help developing countries deal with climate change hit a big barrier this week when countries could not agree on the design of the fund.

Donor nations get low scores on climate finance transparency scorecard

16 September 2011
Media release
Climate change

Developed countries are being far from transparent about the climate-change finance they promised to developing nations at the Copenhagen summit in 2009, according to a scorecard published today (19 September) by IIED.

Plans to protect forests could do more harm than good unless power is in local hands

25 August 2011
Media release
Forests
Governance

Tropical countries that seek a share of billions of dollars of climate finance in return for protecting their forests risk creating strategies that fail to bring social and environmental benefits, according to a report released today by IIED.

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