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Loss and damage animation chosen for Charity Film Award – and we need your vote!

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Blog

COP27 and the important year ahead

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News

IIED's Saleemul Huq awarded OBE

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News

Significant new support for locally-led adaptation principles

News

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

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Article

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

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’

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Blog

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

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Blog

Why COP26 was worth it

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

MGNREGS: Integrated watershed management and climate resilience

Assessing vulnerabilities to disaster displacement: a good practice review

Balance Mundial: tres prioridades para impulsar la acción para la adaptación

Global Stocktake: three priorities to drive adaptation action

Avaliação global periódica: três prioridades para promover as ações de adaptação

Bilan mondial : trois priorités pour la mise en oeuvre des mesures d’adaptation

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Loss and damage: erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is deep and irreparable

Blog, Jan 2022

A man sat behind a desk and sign labelled 'Ethopia' gesticulates with his hands

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

Blog, Jan 2022

IIED at 50 – reflecting on the past, looking to the future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 15

Podcast, Jan 2022

A masked woman sits behind a desk reading an information booklet next to a sign that is labelled 'Rwanda'. behind her is a large banner proclaiming the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference

Why COP26 was worth it

Blog, Jan 2022

An illustration of a man looking at his mobile phone

Planning ahead: how the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action

Blog, Jan 2022

Man speaks passionately into a microphone

IIED's Saleemul Huq awarded OBE

News, Jan 2022

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IIED at 50: making IIED future fit

Interview, Dec 2021

A group of men and women stand around an array of plants on the ground

Archive of completed forest-climate action projects

Article, Dec 2021

An illustration of a man in a boat rowing past a submerged house, with the text underneath "climate change is often called the biggest injustice of our generation"

Loss and damage animation chosen for Charity Film Award – and we need your vote!

News, Dec 2021

View of a forest with a volcano in the background

2021 Barbara Ward Lecture: Rebeca Grynspan says nothing is ever so small that it cannot make a difference

Article, Dec 2021

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

News, Dec 2021

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