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A builder labours in the sun in India. Outdoor workers lose weeks of work every year due to extreme heat

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Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

20 July 2026

People from the Youth Group at COP30 gathered and listening to someone speak off-camera.

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The power of the process: why multilateral climate negotiations still matter

Binyam Gebreyes
03 June 2026

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A shared vision, clear actions and a growing community: the next 20 years of locally led adaptation starts now

Paul Mitchell and May Thazin Aung
21 May 2026

Panel discussion at the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. Four speakers are sitting on chairs behind a table on a podium with a big blue screen behind while the audience is sitting on chairs and listening.

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Santa Marta conference highlights legal barriers to the energy transition

Lorenzo Cotula and Kyla Tienhaara
18 May 2026

An aerial view of a river that has flooded the surrounding area, showing fields and houses partly submerged by water.

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Is any country truly food-secure in the climate change era?

23 March 2026

Speakers, including chief executive officer of the COP32 presidency secretariat office and member of the government of Ethiopia Negusu Aklilu, IIED executive director Tom Mitchell, the Rt Hon. Baroness Chapman of Darlington and chief executive officer of British International Investment Leslie Maasdorp, at the opening plenary of the 2026 summi

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Brutal heatwave spurs leaders to action at climate resilience finance summit

26 June 2026

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Locally led adaptation

See how IIED is working with diverse partners, including governments, donors, academia and other NGOs, to promote locally-led approaches that advance justice and resilience for people, climate and nature.

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Evidence and tools for locally led adaptation

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's climate change work

UN climate change conference (COP29)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 2024 UNFCCC climate change summit in Baku

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Stepping up global ambition for climate action and justice

A programme of work showing how IIED is supporting the most vulnerable countries to increase global ambition to stay below 1.5°C

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Mobilising money to where it matters

A programme of work helping to 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

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Climate-resilient development

A programme of work showing how IIED is supporting governments, civil society and communities to achieve climate-resilient development outcomes for the most vulnerable people

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