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Women delivering a package to another woman, all wearing face masks.

Blog

Climate justice needs vaccine justice

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

Events

IIED and the 2021 ‘super year’

Icon of a tree in the wind

Annual review video

The Pamoja Voices toolkit, Tanzania

Drylands landscape with cattle in the background

Blog

CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?

Women fishing in shallow water

Event

CBA15: Local solutions inspiring global action

Members of a community risk reduction committee fill gabion bags with stones to prevent flood damage to farm land in Ethiopia (Photo: USAID/CRS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

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

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

A beach with cows

Project

Supporting LDCs to develop long-term strategies

Members of a community risk reduction committee fill gabion bags with stones to prevent flood damage to farm land in Ethiopia (Photo: USAID/CRS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Project

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

Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan

Project

Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments

Climate-resilient development

How IIED is supporting public policy responses in delivering climate-resilient development outcomes for the most poor More in this collection

Indian women working a rice field

Project

Enhancing climate resilience impacts of India’s social protection programme

A USAID programme training workers to install solar panels at health clinics in Rwanda. Rwanda is an early adopter of low-carbon climate resilient development (Photo: Walt Ratterman, Sunepi, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Article

The political economy of financing climate resilient development

A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)

Project

Government group network on climate change mainstreaming

Latest publications

Access to climate finance - Workshop Report - 23 February 2021

Digital technologies for an inclusive, low-carbon future that puts people first

Poverty-centred local adaptation in Mozambique

Trust in climate finance requires meaningful transparency

Progressing the Global Goal on Adaptation — key issues

Principles for locally led adaptation

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Women and three donkeys walk in a desert

LIFE-AR: inspiring change within IIED

Blog, Apr 2021

Two hands planting a small plant in the soil

Business unusual: LDC-led climate action

Blog series, Apr 2021

2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries

Blog, Apr 2021

Two men with vests from the Red Cross in front of a destroyed building

Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest

Blog, Apr 2021

Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building

Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation

News, Mar 2021

Hundreds of protesting young people march behind a sign saying "Global strike for climate change"

Q&A: CBA15 – is your climate innovation hot enough for the Dragons’ Den?

Interview, Mar 2021

Man speaking in front of a wall that reads "UN Climate Change Conference UK 2020"

UK aid cuts threaten climate leadership role of COP26 president

Blog, Mar 2021

Icon of a tree in the wind

The Pamoja Voices toolkit, Tanzania

Annual review video, Mar 2021

Man cycling in an arid landscape

When public finance shrinks, what are the priorities for climate action?

Blog, Mar 2021

Five people sitting on a table delivering a presentation

Challenges for climate diplomacy during a pandemic

Blog, Mar 2021

Remembering Adam Thiam

Blog, Mar 2021

Water tank made of stones

Working with nature to manage water resources in a changing climate

Blog, Mar 2021