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Cranes tower over the construction of a dam, with a body of water in the foreground
Chinese hydropower starting to adopt social and environmental safeguarding norms, but with limitations
News, 17 March 2022
Cover for G03671.pdf
Background note for the High-level Event on Sustainable Energy for LDCs (New York, 23 September 2013)
… expressed in Rio+20 are most critical in the context of the least developed countries (LDCs), which constitute the poorest and most vulnerable group … Background note for the High-level Event on Sustainable Energy for LDCs (New York, 23 September 2013) …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Workshop participants were briefed on the climate negotiating priorities of the Least Developed Countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks
… participants included new negotiators and officials from more than 25 countries. They were briefed by leading climate negotiators and … opened with a session led by Gebru Jember Endalew, the chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group  at the UNFCCC negotiations. The LDC … Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks …
News, 13 November 2017
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
… at the Paris climate summit (COP21) . It focused on how developing countries could access financial mechanisms to help them meet the twin … which need it most. The meeting was opened by the chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, Giza Gaspar-Martins of Angola. In his … side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries …
News, 02 December 2015
Cover for 17726IIED.pdf
Time to redress the globally unjust cost of climate change
Publication, 01 September 2019
Arid landscape in the Mount Kenya region
Archive of completed 'Global ambition for climate action and justice' projects
Article, 14 April 2021
Man stands next to a hut and a jerrycan. Another man, wearing red, points to the right.
Can COP26 lay firm foundations for an ambitious new climate finance goal?
… importance . It recognises this issue as a matter of trust between developed and developing countries, as well as a matter of finance. The least developed countries (LDCs) – who have done least to cause climate …
Insight, 11 October 2021
Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
… scenario appears in UN climate change negotiations. I work with the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group – the 48 poorest countries in the world – at the … Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN …
Insight, 12 November 2016
Women in a field bend over to harvest crop
New Champions Group on Adaptation Finance launched amid call to accelerate adaptation finance
News, 22 September 2021
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
Article, 24 November 2015