Search results

922 results
Image of Kigali, Rwanda.
Navigating climate adaptation in urban Africa: lessons from Kigali
… Climate change poses significant challenges for cities worldwide, but especially … urbanisation and environmental pressures converge. Mainstreaming climate adaptation strategies in urban development is crucial for building … Policy and planning … Navigating climate adaptation in urban Africa: lessons from Kigali …
Insight, 03 October 2024
Cover for 22751G.pdf
Strengthening agrobiodiversity conservation: ensuring food security and environmental protection
… fertilisers and pesticides. Land conversion, urbanisation and climate change exacerbate these pressures, placing biodiversity, food security, … It argues that the Kalanguya-Ikalahan experience can inform national policy and be adapted across similar upland and Indigenous agricultural …
Publication, 16 July 2026
People gathered around the COP30 president, deliberating.
Putting pledges into practice: what did COP30 mean for the multilateral climate funds?
… fossil fuels makes the situation worse. With the risks and impacts of climate change increasing with every incremental rise in global temperatures, sufficient and timely delivery of adaptation finance to support the poorest and most climate-vulnerable … Climate change … Policy and planning … How can multilateral climate funds reach people that need it most? …
Insight, 12 December 2025
Maasai men herding cattle
VITAL Climate Collective: connecting demand for climate adaptation needs with supply of climate finance
Project, 01 July 2024
Protestors standing in front of a COP30 sign, holding a banner that reads 'Keep your promises. COP30 for the people'.
COP30 decision "a recipe for delay and confusion"
… “Not only has the goal of tripling funds for adapting to climate change been pushed five years further away, to 2035, but there's no … at all. The language is infuriatingly weak. “Behind the jargon, 'adaptation' is about people’s lives. It means protecting homes, … Climate change … Policy and planning …
News, 25 November 2025
Cover for 22667iied.pdf
Practical guidance for aligning operations with the LLA principles
… Climate finance is highly centralised and often beset by bureaucratic … of developing locally appropriate solutions to adapt to climate change. Without a step change in policy and practice from funders and … this situation will not change.  By aligning with the locally led adaptation (LLA) principles, funders and international intermediaries …
Publication, 05 September 2025
Illustration from Development and Climate Days 2025. Text says 'Development and Climate Days, October 30 2025. Turning ambition into action'.
D&C Days 2025: Key messages
… Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) provide a crucial informal space for … open, honest conversations and ideas about how to tackle climate change and build resilience. The first part of D&C Days 2025 on … be addressed to speed progress on climate change: scaling locally led adaptation (LLA) approaches to climate action, financing resilience, and …
Article, 07 November 2025
A woman signs a piece of paper in front of an audience.
LIFE-AR à la COP28 : de nouveaux engagements pour accélérer les efforts d'adaptation et de résilience au climat dans les pays les moins avancés
… Climate change … Policy and planning … UN climate change conference (COP28) … à la COP28 : de nouveaux engagements pour accélérer les efforts d'adaptation et de résilience au climat dans les pays les moins avancés …
News, 19 February 2024
Group of women gathered for a regular meeting on aquaculture. One woman is standing and speaking with a poster behind her, while a groups is sitting and listening.
Gender equality and climate finance: from local realities to global commitments
… Climate finance has been a cornerstone of global climate action, yet … finance: a persistent disparity Women play a critical role in climate adaptation and resilience-building, yet financial mechanisms remain … they are many. For instance, I remember attending my first UN climate change conference in 2019 (COP25). At the time I had just founded Green …
Insight, 05 March 2025
Tree seedilings being watered and tended in Vrassan, Burkina Faso.
Climate finance for least developed countries: lessons on locally led adaptation
… Climate change … Policy and planning … UN climate change conference (COP29) … Climate finance for least developed countries: lessons on locally led adaptation …
Insight, 06 November 2024