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Responses to Putin’s war risk impeding international cooperation on climate

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Annual review

IIED annual review 2021

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Podcast

Shifting the power – climate justice means gender justice: Make Change Happen podcast episode 16

Project

Scaling up support for locally locally-led adaptation

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Blog

Applying the lessons of COVID-19 to the climate crisis

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Adaptive evaluation: considering climate risks in theory and practice – first episode of a new mini-series

UN climate change conference (COP26)

IIED at the 2021 UNFCCC climate change summit in Glasgow More in this collection

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Events

IIED and the ‘super year’

Blog

The climate crisis and the fastest societal change, ever

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Blog

Bringing youth’s energy from the streets to the climate negotiating table

Stepping up global ambition for climate action and justice

How IIED is supporting the most vulnerable countries to increase global ambition to stay below 1.5°C More in this collection

Delegates from the LDC Group, including chair Gebru Jember Endalew and IIED's Achala Abeysinghe discuss the revised APA text, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo: IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth)

Overview

Introduction to our work on global climate law, policy and governance: supporting LDCs in and outside of the UNFCCC process

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Project

Providing on-demand legal, technical and strategic advice to the Least Developed Countries Group

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Project

Supporting the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR)

Mobilising money to where it matters

Researching the benefits and challenges of getting development and climate finance flowing to the local level More in this collection

Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

Project

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

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Article

Principles for locally led adaptation

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

Project

Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Latest publications

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Money where it matters for people, nature and climate: driving change through support for local level decision making over resources and finance

Still bearing the burden: how poor rural women in Bangladesh are paying most for climate risks

African timber cities: carbon sinks with development benefits?

Taking stock of the Global Goal on Adaptation: from the Paris Agreement to the Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh work programme

Un balance de la Meta Global para Adaptación: del Acuerdo de París al Programa de trabajo de Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh

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Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate

Blog, May 2022

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CBA16 and locally led adaptation: an interactive dialogue

Webinar, May 2022

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Financing locally-led action for people, nature and climate in the Decade of Action

Event, May 2022

Climate change, health and informal workers – highlighting urban challenges and responses from India and Zimbabwe

Webinar, May 2022

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New report highlights evidence for directly involving people at the frontline of the nature, climate and poverty crises

News, May 2022

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Prema Gopalan remembered

News, May 2022

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Making finance flow for locally-led action in the Decade of Action

Webinar, May 2022

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Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action

Project, May 2022

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Why women are footing the bill for climate: lessons from Bangladesh

Event, May 2022

A group of woman wearing bright clothes and masks huddle under umbrellas, with a flooded river behind.

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Webinar, May 2022

A man, his head hidden by the two large rocks he carries on his shoulders, on the edge of a large river

The Global Goal on Adaptation: how to make the GlaSS work programme inclusive

Event, May 2022

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Guide for linking sovereign debt to climate and nature action supports decision-makers to restructure debt in response to COVID-19 and the Ukraine war

News, Apr 2022