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A group of young people protest holding signs about climate change and loudspeakers
High-level summit and video showcase poorest countries’ spearheading efforts to tackle climate crisis
… The leadership of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group to the United Nations Framework Convention for … least to cause it. Committing to action The LDC Group represents 46 LDCs – the poorest 46 nations in the world and home to one billion … High-level summit and video showcase poorest countries’ spearheading efforts to tackle climate crisis …
News, 04 December 2020
A woman, surrounded by a standing group of people outside, points to the floor where there are brightly coloured markings.
Tackling climate change loss and damage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes
… However, despite the potential of these programmes, vulnerable countries grapple with challenges in in delivering anticipatory and risk … that lack comprehensive climate hazard coverage, particularly in least developed countries (LDCs) Inefficient decision making and delivery …
Project, 29 October 2023
Thousands of scientists attended the March for Science in Washington D.C. to protest against political attacks on climate science and evidence-based research. Similar protests were held in over 600 cities around the world (Photo: Adam Fagen, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Marching into May talks: LDCs lead the way on climate change
… climate justice (29 April) are welcome signs for the world's poorest countries that the vital issue of climate change has not been … by training and come from Ethiopia. I also chair the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the UN climate change negotiations. The 48 … Marching into May talks: LDCs lead the way on climate change …
Insight, 04 May 2017
Economics of climate change adaptation in least developed countries
… The IPCC has identified the least developed countries (LDCs) as those that will be most affected by climate change … Economics of climate change adaptation in least developed countries …
Project, 24 September 2008
Woman and donkey walk an arid landscape.
Adaptation finance must reach and pass the US$40 billion target
… 15th UN climate change conference (COP15) in 2009, the world’s rich countries agreed to give developing countries US$100 billion a year to … next to nothing to the problem, low-income countries – especially least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) – …
Insight, 02 November 2022
Woman holds a hose in a greenhouse of pepper plants
New briefing supports greater ambition for countries’ NDCs
… every five years to keep global warming below 1.5°C. While many countries have missed the 2020 NDC deadline, they are still expected to … and analytical capacity.   This can be even more challenging for least developed countries (LDCs), but they are committed to submitting updated … New briefing supports greater ambition for countries’ NDCs …
News, 12 August 2021
People walking on a flooded street.
Loss and damage fund: two funding frameworks reimagining climate finance delivery
… can bypass bureaucracy by drawing on the strengths and innovations of least developed countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other …
Insight, 12 February 2024
Four women smiling at the camera.
UN climate talks: how new negotiators benefit from media training
… Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties (countries) don’t cut emissions, they ‘mitigate’. They don’t set targets … try. But when there is pressure from the outside – such as when the Least Developed Countries Group (LDCs) helped build a narrative in the lead up …
Insight, 24 October 2023
Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region; smallholder folders in Least Developed Countries would be adversely affected by climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation
… Over the last 14 years, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) has provided support, capacity building and … Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation …
Insight, 01 September 2015
A seated man in shirt and tie leads forward on a table, with a microphone in front of him.
Loss and damage scholarship created in memory of Prof. Saleemul Huq
… Prize for Loss and Damage Research, for early career scholars from least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the …
News, 05 December 2023