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2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries
… Question: In all of recorded history, did 2020… Tie as the warmest year ever for global surface temperatures? … wreaked havoc in the background. As the pandemic ravaged the world, climate impacts continued to break records, mostly affecting the world’s most … Climate change … 2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries …
Insight, 08 April 2021
Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… Issued last month by heads of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Group climate negotiating bloc, the Thimphu Call for Ambition and Action on … predictable and reliable access from year to year. Accessible:  In 2020,  LDCs received only 21% of climate finance (PDF)  due in large … Climate change … Business unusual: LDC-led climate action …
Insight, 03 November 2021
Two men bend down with their hands on a small tree.
Only a fraction of international climate adaptation finance for least developed countries found to also support nature
… Despite growing recognition of the links between climate change and nature, our preliminary research shows that less than … impacted by climate change. In their '2050 Vision' (PDF) launched in 2020, LDCs committed to advance "climate-resilient landscapes and … adaptation-related development finance in the four years we chose to review. Building from our 2021 analysis of climate finance flows in our …
Insight, 10 March 2022
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… sustainable development, this 48-page guide which launched in January 2020: Lays out the main steps involved in scoping, designing and … .  2 Tackling the triple crisis: using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19 I ssue paper  Even before … one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’’ . 7 Delivering change: IIED annual review 2019 A nnual report IIED’s annual review published in February …
Article, 23 December 2020
People posing in front of national flags.
Building political ambition for adaptation at COP28 and beyond
… countries’ collective progress towards the goals of the Paris climate change agreement , is set to conclude at COP28 . This is a … . But less than $30 billion in adaptation finance was delivered in 2020. It is well known that the goal for channelling $100 billion per … and Champions Group on Adaptation Finance undertook a joint evidence review, looking at good practice in adaptation financing from both their …
Insight, 01 December 2023
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… while innovation and creatively were still to the fore, the events of 2020 and the greater reliance on communicating and collaborating … to webinars and documentaries. Indeed, IIED’s own 2020 annual review, to be published in February, will have a strong video element. … European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Sewing on the street in Djibouti. The informal sector still plays an important role in most of the LDCs (Photo: Charles Roffey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
… far?  Slow progress I recently participated in the Antalya mid-term review of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA)  for LDCs, a review of … ambitious 10-year plan that aims to see half of LDCs (23) graduate by 2020. But since the creation of the group, only four countries have … the Sustainable Development Goals, IPoA, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, to name a …
Insight, 29 June 2016
Aerial view of an isle surrounded by water
A new climate finance goal is in the making: what must happen in 2023?
… The new collective quantified goal on climate finance, or NCQG, is set to be agreed by 2024. This goal will … unclear. The current goal has a static time frame: “$100 billion by 2020”, but some countries say the new goal should be structured … and out to 2050. And these milestones could also be accompanied by review cycles at shorter intervals (every five years, for example). We …
Insight, 02 March 2023
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… to be achieved by 2015 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which has a long history of negotiations to … climate change. The parties to the UNFCCC meet annually at the COP to review progress and update commitments. Paris is particularly … , which was created to channel US$100 billion a year of funding from 2020 from rich countries to developing countries to tackle climate …
Insight, 17 April 2015