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LDCs and the Paris Agreement: moving from international commitments to national implementation
… at the start of August, will bring together practitioners from least developed countries (LDCs) with global practitioners, technical experts and other … LDCs and the Paris Agreement: moving from international commitments to …
News, 20 July 2020
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Impact of climate change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible?
… render these aspirational goals almost impossibly challenging for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) unless the current level of ambition in development and … Impact of climate change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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Transparency programme: supporting LDCs to negotiate and implement the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement
… (ETF) , an enhanced transparency system to report and review countries’ progress towards that target as well as their adaptation and … under the ETF. While recognising the special circumstances of the least developed countries LDCs, they establish a single set of rules for all … Transparency programme: supporting LDCs to negotiate and implement the enhanced transparency framework …
Project, 27 April 2021
Negotiators from over 190 countries are attending the Paris climate summit (Photo:UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Least Developed Country experts raise their voices at COP21
… Members of IIED's Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (IEG) will be at the UN Framework … agencies. Their role is to help Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have a stronger voice in international negotiations on sustainable … Least Developed Country experts raise their voices at COP21 …
News, 03 December 2015
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A Review of the Least Developed Countries in the IPCC AR5 WGII - Presentation
Publication, 01 November 2014
A man in traditional robes bending to inspect crops in a large field of green vegetation
COP29 must deliver bold commitments to limit catastrophic climate impacts
… As a climate negotiator from Sudan and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group , I can see the potential of COP29 as a beacon for …
Insight, 11 November 2024
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
… significant for the poorest communities in the world and the poorest countries – which is why IIED recently hosted a retreat in New York to focus on the demands of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the post-2015 agenda. These four strands … 2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries …
Insight, 17 April 2015
A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: involving growing low-income urban populations in urbanising countries will help result in more inclusive urbanisation (Photo: bobthemagicdragon, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test
… will be left behind. From the vantage point of the world's poorest countries the targets behind these goals might seem almost surreal. … in GDP per capita needs to be seven per cent a year or more in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), even as inequalities are being reduced, and … Least developed countries (LDC) challenges: how can SDG implementation …
Insight, 07 June 2016
A dilapidated road is repaired in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India (Photo: Rikynti Marwein via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Transforming growth for least developed countries
… institutions for ensuring social justice. Forty-nine members of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have an ambitious goal to meet within the next ten … Transforming growth for least developed countries …
Insight, 10 March 2014
A man on the phone outside a small orange hut. A nearby sign advertises prices for mobile phone air-time.
How the digital divide threatens the success and legitimacy of the COP26 talks
Insight, 08 October 2021