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The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
Insight, 06 November 2016
A woman scoops water in a dry riverbed near Kataboi village in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya (Photo: Marisol Grandon/DFID via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
Insight, 03 April 2014
Cover for G03816.pdf
A Government Group Network for Climate Change Mainstreaming Into Development Planning: 2014-2015 Strategy and Plan
Publication, 01 August 2014
Participants around a table at D&C Days 2016 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Transparency and accountability in the Paris Agreement: eight questions climate negotiators must tackle
… The disparity between the scale of estimated losses from climate impacts and international adaptation funding available to … of topics and issues at the interface of development and climate change. This year the host partners intend to go further.  VIDEO: What … private sector, the climate negotiators and the climate adaptation community. The host partners –  Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre , …
Insight, 23 October 2017
Boji Drug Store: financed by the European Union through the Community Development Trust Fund (Photo: John Nyangena)
Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
… Mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) were set up to enable climate vulnerable countries … for Kenya where four county governments are developing County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) legislation to coordinate and mobilise climate … finance from international and domestic sources. Financing for community development initiatives falls under two main approaches - …
Insight, 04 December 2016
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
… fellow Saleemul Huq, also director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), provided regular vlogs from Lima … for building synergies between adaptation and mitigation.  Mountains community-based adaptation  Workshop Date: Thursday 4 December Speakers: … Climate change … IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) …
Event, 01 December 2014
Heads of government will pledge action on climate change at the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September (Image: UN)
Leaders take note: There are two sides to the climate change coin
… As this week's report by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate shows, spending money to tackle climate change will drive economic growth, creating jobs and prosperity. As our … in April this year delegates at the 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change adopted the Kathmandu …
Insight, 18 September 2014
CLACC Fellows gather in Durban, South Africa
Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC)
… are:  To strengthen the capacity of civil society in LDCs to adapt to climate change and fostering adaptive capacity among the most vulnerable groups … Change Convention talks in 2008 and 2009. 2008, Poznan, Poland Community Based Adaptation in Malawi – CURE, Malawi Rainwater Harvesting … Climate change … Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC) …
Project, 05 September 2008
VIDEO: Saleemul Huq on new research into how communities adapt to climate change
… in peer-reviewed academic journals and at the annual conferences on community-based adapation to climate change, which take place in Bangladesh every second year. … Climate change … VIDEO: Saleemul Huq on new research into how communities adapt to climate change …
News, 27 May 2011
Reality check: climate change and the poor
Insight, 28 March 2011