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Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
… page brings together a summary of IIED's work at COP19. Supporting Least Developed Countries IIED works with the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to …
Event, 01 January 2015
Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030
… of the SDG agenda will not be achievable, especially in the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) . For the LDCs, the Paris process brings the hope of …
Insight, 10 September 2015
Evidence of coastal erosion in The Gambia. Erosion is threatening not only Gambia's tourist industry but also wetlands, roads and infrastructure (Photo: Diego, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A diplomatic approach to raising climate ambition
… its response to the needs of the most vulnerable. Together with the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group , I spent the first two weeks of December in a …
Insight, 19 February 2016
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
… pandemic. These challenges disproportionately impact vulnerable countries, groups and individuals by exacerbating pre-existing dynamics … on 2020 and priorities for 2021 with climate leaders from the least developed countries (LDCs). Climate adaptation and resilience vision: …
Article, 02 February 2021
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… with clear direction . Frustrated by this unwieldy document, we have developed an alternative version of the New Urban Agenda – in one page. … financing mechanism to support climate action in developing countries. Neha Rai and Sarah Best reported on a study analysing over a … valuable (or essential) for local governments. Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries June: The Least Developed Countries Group was …
Article, 28 December 2016
A poster at COP25
COP25: the morning after
… key areas: a solid set of rules for carbon markets, and support for countries suffering loss and damage caused by climate impacts.  But … of the Warsaw International Mechanism on loss and damage (WIM) . Least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) hit …
Insight, 13 January 2020
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
Article, 24 November 2015
Sumaya Zakieldeen
Q&A with Sumaya Zakieldeen
… Dr. Sumaya Zakieldeen has recently been nominated as the Least Developed Countries (LDC) representative to the Adaptation Committee under the …
Article, 21 June 2012
The opening session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) begins in Bonn, Germany, on 31 August, 2015 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The tough journey on the road to Paris: addressing the needs of the most vulnerable
… negotiations journey on the road to Paris appears tough, but if countries walk together, they will advance towards building a … part III of this tool into parts I and II. LDCs' voices missing The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are gravely concerned that many of their most …
Insight, 02 September 2015
The Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN, Kunzang Choden Namgyel, signs the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Photo: Amanda Voisard, UN Photo)
Lessons in climate diplomacy from Ethiopia and Bhutan 
… diplomacy , as diplomats – including some from the world's poorest countries – have been working tirelessly to ensure cooperation between … Fourteen of these first 55 countries were among the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) .  This means the agreement has come into …
Insight, 27 October 2016