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Unlocking urban climate finance: barriers and progress in African cities
… in the global South, are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, despite their negligible contribution to global warming. Climate-related events are rapidly increasing in frequency, severity and … Nairobi, this briefing examines barriers and progress towards climate finance access and outlines institutional, financial and partnership …
Publication, 18 May 2026
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The promise of direct access to climate finance: evidence and lessons from LDCs and SIDS
… States (SIDS) are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.  Two of the most important funds providing climate finance for LDCs and SIDS are the Adaptation Fund and Green Climate … Climate change … The promise of direct access to climate finance: evidence and lessons from LDCs and SIDS …
Publication, 07 May 2026
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Locally implemented or locally led? Tracking finance for community climate action
… Local communities are directly affected by the impacts of climate change and are essential to developing and implementing … never been more important to understand, track and measure flows of climate finance to the local level. However, information on these flows is not … Climate change … Locally implemented or locally led? Tracking finance for community climate action …
Publication, 14 November 2025
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Breaking down siloes: reforming financing and trade for climate adaptation in LDCs
… countries (LDCs) face a three-pronged challenge in accessing finance for climate adaptation: escalating impacts, shrinking domestic fiscal space … domestic resources and include a reoriented trade agenda to support climate-vulnerable economies. This briefing identifies critical gaps and … Climate change … Breaking down siloes: reforming financing and trade for climate adaptation in LDCs …
Publication, 09 October 2025
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Financing social and environmental justice in the global South
… Communities most affected by the overlapping climate, environmental, social and economic crises receive the fewest … first edition of the Global South House at the 2025 United Nations climate change conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, these funds and … Climate change …
Publication, 22 June 2026
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Transforming nature finance for people, nature and climate: IIED’s nature finance strategy, 2025–2030
… This strategy lays out our vision for transforming the way that nature finance is delivered and redirected, in support of locally led action for people, nature and climate. It is a five-year strategy, for the period 2025–2030. The … that IIED and our partners have multiple offers and asks for nature finance. The strategy will be implemented by a core group of IIED staff …
Publication, 22 August 2025
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Shifting climate adaptation finance to local communities through effective intermediaries
… Climate adaptation finance is failing to reach marginalised communities that are most vulnerable to climate impacts – including women, girls and Indigenous Peoples. This briefing sets out how to direct climate finance, and specifically financing for locally led adaptation (LLA), … Climate change … Shifting climate adaptation finance to local communities through effective …
Publication, 23 June 2025
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Growing your internal finance: a toolkit to guide forest and farm producer organisations
… inhabit forest landscapes. Many of them struggle to access finance from banks and microfinance institutions, government support … or private-sector partners.  To improve their access to markets and finance, individuals work together to establish forest and farm producer … income generation, food security, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation. To address their members …
Publication, 14 July 2026
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Complementarity and coherence among climate funds: a tool for improved access in LDCs and SIDS?
… Accessing climate finance remains slow, complex and resource intensive, with … and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In response, the Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, Adaptation Fund and other major climate funds are advancing an agenda of ‘complementarity and coherence’ … Climate change …
Publication, 02 July 2026
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Making private digital extension services work for Uganda’s smallholders
Publication, 31 August 2026