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Three women standing on a patch of open land, peeling vegetables.
Lima's community-organised soup kitchens are a lifeline during COVID-19
… institute CENCA adopted when the pandemic broke out. As of mid-July 2020, CENCA identified 35 ollas comunes in the district of San Juan de … CENCA adoptaron al inicio de la pandemia. A mediados de julio de 2020, CENCA identificó 35 ollas comunes en San Juan de Lurigancho, el …
Insight, 07 August 2020
Screenshot from animation explaining how decentralised climate funds operate (Image: Near East Foundation)
How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
… billion of climate finance flows to developing countries each year by 2020. To date, much of the committed international funding for climate …
News, 14 November 2016
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
Insight, 06 November 2016
An Ethiopian farmer arrives for a field day on climate change adaptation. Ethiopia is the first LDC to submit its intended Nationally Determined Contribution in preparation of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC (Photo: ILRI/ZerihunSewunet, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Next steps for climate negotiations on the road to Paris
… issues; issues relating to the transition period between 2015 and 2020; issues that need further work beyond Paris; and financial pledges …
Insight, 17 June 2015
Biomass: boon or bane?
… In Europe, for example, national renewable energy action plans for 2020 suggest an additional requirement of 40 million oven dry metric …
Insight, 31 August 2011
Do or die in Durban
… year that they were open to a second commitment period to last until 2020 – but subject to a list of ‘conditionalities’, which include a … aim for an agreement to be drawn up by 2016, and come into force in 2020. For six years, governments have tried to find a way through these …
Insight, 30 November 2011
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
Insight, 15 December 2014
The island state of Tuvalu is profoundly threatened by climate change. Tuvalu’s Prime Minister announced plans to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. He was one of several LDC leaders to announce climate action. (Photo: Tomoaki Inaba)
Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries
… announced his commitment to employ 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. Though Tuvalu's commitment will not be easy, the Prime Minister …
Insight, 28 September 2014
COP21 president Laurent Fabius (second right) and UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres (second left) celebrate the Paris Agreement (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A historic agreement in Paris
… (separate from the agreement that does not come into force until 2020) contains provisions to strengthen national plans over the next …
Insight, 14 December 2015
The event was held in the Africa pavilion at the Paris climate summit (Photo: IIED)
COP21 side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries
…  that estimates that the cost of all 48 LDCs implementing their post-2020 climate action plans would be around US$93 billion per year. IIED …
News, 02 December 2015