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The climate crisis and the fastest societal change, ever
… yet started. Going into COP26, the best assessments were that even if countries delivered everything they submitted in their mitigation plans, … the ground-breaking Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance at COP26. Some least developed countries (LDCs) have shown that leadership: Nepal joined The …
Insight, 27 January 2022
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Action, ambition, investment: what success at COP23 looks like for LDCs
… and making progress on a set of guidelines to implement it. For the Least Developed Countries, this means getting all countries to step up their action, … Action, ambition, investment: what success at COP23 looks like for LDCs …
Publication, 01 October 2017
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
Insight, 20 April 2021
Protection for high seas is crucial to safeguarding vulnerable coastal communities – new research
… Oceanography Centre (NOC), demonstrates that coastal communities in least developed countries (LDCs) are highly dependent on key areas of the ‘high seas’. …
News, 11 March 2019
A masked woman sits behind a desk reading an information booklet next to a sign that is labelled 'Rwanda'. behind her is a large banner proclaiming the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference
Why COP26 was worth it
… I chose to align my focus with the context of my country and the least developed countries (LDCs) where the main priority is the availability and …
Insight, 06 January 2022
IIED's 2017 strategy update
Our strategy: 2014-2019
… Development was recognised as a universal enterprise involving all countries, rich and poor. And sustainability was placed at the heart of … successful implementation of the Paris Agreement by  working with the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group  and our networks in the LDCs to promote …
Page, 29 July 2022
Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
… as both the defining challenge and opportunity for developing countries to progress. Enhancing productive capacity will help these … collaboration with the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and the Small …
Insight, 25 July 2014
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From climate risk to climate resilience
… Zambia, like most of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is facing a future where smallholder crop production …
Publication, 01 December 2017
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
Insight, 06 March 2019
The opening of the UN climate change talks in Bonn in June. The negotiators meet in Bonn again this week (Photo: UNClimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate negotiations: the last stop before Paris
Insight, 19 October 2015