Overview
Introduction to locally led adaptation
21 October 2024
Our nature finance work
Learn about IIED's efforts to transform nature for finance
Mobilising money to where it matters
Helping 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
Humankind and the natural world face an intertwined triple crisis of rising inequality, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, accompanied by a climate emergency. Only systemic change can tackle such complexity.
Climate finance – money to help developing countries reduce emissions and adapt to climate change – is the ideal ‘lubricant’ to set this systemic change in motion. However, IIED has shown that less than 10% of global climate funds prioritised local action between 2003 and 2016.
IIED and its partners are helping to scale locally-led actions to sustainably build resilience against the triple crises by influencing finance mechanisms at all levels and establishing unconventional partnerships to catalyse change.
Contact
LLA team: [email protected]