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COP21 president Laurent Fabius (second right) and UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres (second left) celebrate the Paris Agreement (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A historic agreement in Paris
… emissions has been perceived as intrinsically linked to the rights of countries to prosper and accumulate wealth and power in the world.   The … be needed to meet the challenge on many fronts. IIED's role and the Least Developed Countries Group We got to this point through a huge global …
Insight, 14 December 2015
Q&A: climate negotiations
… Q. From a Least Developed Country (LDC) perspective, what is a desirable outcome at … action. A good agreements has three parts: Firstly the major emitting countries, particularly the richest countries like the US and Europe …
Article, 17 March 2009
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… side events, our researchers provided support to negotiators from the Least Developed Countries and analysed progress at the main negotiations. IIED worked to …
Event, 06 November 2017
A plenary session at COP15 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP15 UN Climate Change Conference
Event, 20 December 2009
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… economic impact pushes millions more women, children and men in these countries into poverty. This issue paper published in September 2020 … . 5 What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the least developed countries I ssue paper Adaptation is an investment that …
Article, 23 December 2020
Screenshots from IIED best videos
IIED's best of 2020: videos
… 400 hours more than the previous year by mid-December – from over 50 countries. 1 Water before gold: voices from Santurbán … Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop their skills and become specialist …
Insight, 30 December 2020
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… poor, mobilising groups of low-income urban residents in more than 33 countries, works to get climate finance to the most vulnerable. But … are notoriously political and tensions often arise between developed and developing countries. How has the 50/50 split on the board … a more practical focus on spending the money. The economies of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and African countries are most …
Article, 10 October 2016
Man on a dried beach. Palm trees with roots uncovered.
IIED at 50: making IIED future fit
… − something IIED has been supporting for a long time. The processes countries have to navigate and the hoops they have to jump through are, … of climate injustice. IIED can play a role in supporting least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to …
Article, 20 December 2021
Members of the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation learn techniques for building houses on land that is affected by climate-related hazards, including waterlogging.
Zimbabwe needs “more urban, more public” climate change strategy
News, 17 January 2013
Tianjin climate begotiation through the CLACC lens
… (AWG-KP) discussed emissions reduction commitments for the 37 developed countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. At the same … 2012. Dago Tshering is a member of CLACC (Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change), a network …
Insight, 19 November 2010