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Rising water levels submerge trees and encroach on land

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Can COP26 reach ambitious outcomes for LDCs?

IIED at COP26

IIED at COP26

A solitary tree on an island surrounded by water. Some people and cattle stand and sit underneath the tree.

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Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities

Two-day digital conference

Development and Climate Days 2021

A green mangrove forest on the edge of a lake, with the roots of the mangroves exposed

Blog

Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries

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News

Taking locally led adaptation global – episode 3 of podcast mini-series

UN climate change conference (COP26)

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

Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets

Events

IIED and the 2021 ‘super year’

People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"

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COP27 and the important year ahead

Piles of bags and jerrycans. Men pick some of them up.

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Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?

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

Two women harvest crops in a field

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

Global Stocktake: three priorities to drive adaptation action

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Connecting the dots: climate change, migration and social protection

Declaration of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP): Indigenous Food Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Loss and damage case studies from the frontline: a resource to support practice and policy

Creating a Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) at the IMF: How to Support Climate-vulnerable Countries

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Woman squatting in a garden, looking to the ground. She's surrounded by vegetables.

Decoloniality and the new ethics of climate and nature

Blog, Nov 2021

People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"

COP27 and the important year ahead

Blog, Nov 2021

Piles of bags and jerrycans. Men pick some of them up.

Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?

Blog, Nov 2021

Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.

D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action

Article, Nov 2021

Man stands behind a lectern in the sea to give a speech, with the water above his knees.

COP26 debrief: where do we go from here?

Event, Nov 2021

Record attendance expected at first-ever virtual D&C Days alongside ‘pivotal’ COP meeting

News, Nov 2021

Six men and one woman wearing masks line up for a group photo on a stage.

Champions Group on Adaptation Finance join forces to accelerate adaptation finance solutions beyond COP26

News, Nov 2021

Man crouching next to a crop bed.

Significant new support for locally-led adaptation principles

News, Nov 2021

Woman waling with crutches steps outside a hut to a flooded road

New solidarity funds could ringfence finance for loss and damage

Blog, Nov 2021

Elder woman kneels on the ground behind weeds.

Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are central to tackling the climate crisis – but they need finance

Blog, Nov 2021

Two people sail a canoe around stilt houses.

Financing least developed countries’ climate strategies: taking the long view

Blog, Nov 2021

Woman waters seedlings

Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries

Blog, Nov 2021