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Women from least developed countries and the international climate negotiations − how can we close the gap?

The first woman to chair the LDC Group in UNFCCC negotiations, Madeleine Diouf Sarr discusses what is needed to enable greater representation of women from the least developed countries in international climate decision-making spaces

05 July 2023

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Event

Housing and equitable cities: bolstering local action for the implementation of SDG 11

Event on 19 July 2023

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Event

IIED at London Climate Action Week 2023

Event on 24 June 2023

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Blog

Integrating four urban agendas for climate resilience

David Satterthwaite
04 July 2023

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Blog

IIED launches SAGE version 2.0 – a tool for improving governance and equity in nature conservation

Phil Franks
28 June 2023

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News

New strategic alliance aims to build collaborative approaches to tackle climate crisis

21 June 2023

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Blog

Reform the global financial system to support transformational adaptation

UnaMay Gordon
03 July 2023

Podcast

Challenging queer erasure in climate action and urban development: Make Change Happen podcast episode 22

26 June 2023

IIED at LCAW 2023

Throughout London Climate Action Week 2023 from 24 June to 2 July, IIED and partners hosted and participated in digital, in-person and hybrid events falling under the theme of delivering fair inclusive and just climate transitions

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IIED at London Climate Action Week 2023

Event on 24 June 2023

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Event

Scaling practical solutions for tackling loss and damage in LDCs and SIDS

Event on 30 June 2023

Design with a book, a tablet and picture of Brianna Craft. Text reads "UK launch of Everything that Rises: A Climate Change Memoir by Brianna Craft"

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Everything That Rises: an evening with Brianna Craft

Event on 27 June 2023

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Delivering LLA: lessons from the frontline of climate action

Event on 29 June 2023

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Event

Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action

Event on 30 June 2023

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City resilience bonds: an idea whose time has come?

Event on 29 June 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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Shock-responsive social protection in fragile and conflict-affected states

Layering debt relief solutions to move countries from vicious to virtuous cycles of debt

Centring local values in assessing and addressing climate-related losses and damages

Enabling city resilience bonds

D&C Days at 20: Ambition, action, resilience

Assessing the implementation and impacts of gender-sensitive by-laws in Kisarawe

Site-level Assessment of Governance and Equity (SAGE) for protected and conserved areas: manual for SAGE facilitators

Scaling up locally led adaptation in Bangladesh: three action areas

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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IIED Europe

Our work in depth

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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