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News

Innovative financing for African economies to tackle debt, climate change and biodiversity loss

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News

New Champions Group on Adaptation Finance launched amid call to accelerate adaptation finance

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Podcast

Debt swaps for climate and nature: innovation for resilience? Make Change Happen podcast episode 8

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Webinar

A green recovery for inclusion: debt relief and special drawing rights for climate action

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Blog

Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature

Feature

Profit with purpose: the role of business in achieving sustainable development

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

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Project

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

Latest publications

Follow the money: tracking Least Developed Countries’ adaptation finance to the local level

Key performance indicators for climate and nature outcomes in debt management in West Africa

Principles for locally led adaptation

Tackling the triple crisis. Using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19

Shallow water shrimp fishery in Mozambique: who benefits from fiscal reform?

Making the market work for nature

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A fisherman standing in shallow water bends over to tend his nets, alongside a basket

Innovative financing for African economies to tackle debt, climate change and biodiversity loss

News, Oct 2021

Women in a field bend over to harvest crop

New Champions Group on Adaptation Finance launched amid call to accelerate adaptation finance

News, Sep 2021

Woman in a millet crop

Accelerating adaptation finance

Webinar, Sep 2021

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Building resilience and greening the COVID-19 recovery in least developed countries

Project, Sep 2021

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Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa

Project, Sep 2021

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Lessons for building a natural capital legacy

Blog, Aug 2021

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Understanding the challenges faced by LDCs in COVID-19 recovery

Webinar, Jul 2021

A glass full of coins, with a plant sprouting out of the top

A green recovery for inclusion: debt relief and special drawing rights for climate action

Webinar, Jul 2021

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Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots

Project, Jul 2021

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Frontline funds: investing in grassroots-led responses to climate change

Webinar, Jun 2021

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Community-led housing: a pathway for more caring and just urban futures

Webinar, Jun 2021

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“We need a stronger taskforce”: pushing for better access to climate finance for vulnerable countries

Blog, Jun 2021