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Black polluting smoke billows from a ship.
Global Stocktake and Global Goal on Adaptation at COP28
… On plans for adapting to climate change in the Global Goal on Adaptation and Global Stocktake: … prioritise adaptation work led by the people most affected by this crisis. “The countries most at risk have made clear during these … should make good on promises made in Dubai to overhaul our broken food system, and they should redirect the billions in subsidies that go …
News, 13 December 2023
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Ethiopia readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection
Publication, 28 October 2023
A woman, surrounded by a standing group of people outside, points to the floor where there are brightly coloured markings.
Tackling climate change loss and damage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes
Project, 29 October 2023
A shepherd and a herd of sheep in a mountain
COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance
… Climate change epitomises injustice. Thousands of people have died in … likely to reach those actually living on the frontline of the climate crisis – in particular, Indigenous Peoples and local communities? The … protect evolving and co-evolving landscape-based gene banks of major food crops and livestock breeds adapted to climate extremes. These are …
Insight, 08 November 2022
A view over a forest
Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis
… essential for tackling the twin crises of biodiversity loss and the climate emergency. But, even though discussions on the Convention for … and they have largely failed to be achieved – hence the biodiversity crisis. But upping ambition is just revamping the rhetoric if we cannot … services in sub-Saharan Africa. This has included hosting the SNAPP Food and Forest in Africa Working Group and, more recently, a project in …
Insight, 30 June 2020
Elephants with a mountain in the distant background
Supporting Jordan and Kenya to mobilise finance for climate and nature
… due to the Ukraine war, which has dramatically increased fuel and food prices and led to more borrowing. In addition, many countries face growing economic impacts from climate change and nature damage. At a time when developing countries … or the Sustainable Development Goals , and that the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss poses a systemic risk to …
Project, 27 February 2023
Man standing next to a toppled tree in the middle of a road.
Private investors profiting from $200 billion of bond debt in climate-vulnerable developing countries
… countries, many of which are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to new analysis released by IIED ahead of next … major brake on lower-income countries’ ability to tackle the climate crisis, which they have done little to cause and to which they are often … Many countries have sunk deeper into debt as a result of COVID-19, food price rises and war in Ukraine. Although debt has been on the …
News, 05 October 2023
A man bends over to tend his crops in a field
Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
… At the UN Secretary-General’s climate summit in September, a day before the annual General Assembly … their plans to cut emissions to tackle the escalating climate crisis. Countries will also demonstrate how they are accelerating action … from her responsibilities. Spending less time going to market for food and fuel frees up to time to spend with her five children and to …
Insight, 02 September 2019
Man walking a flooded street
UN publishes new Adaptation Gap Report
… onerous systems and red tape. “Those people least able to cope with climate emergencies are already facing rising sea levels, scorching … grown hugely in the wake of the pandemic and amid a global energy and food price crisis.” Read a  blog exploring IIED's analysis of climate adaptation … Climate change …
News, 03 November 2022
Woman squatting in a garden, looking to the ground. She's surrounded by vegetables.
Decoloniality and the new ethics of climate and nature
Insight, 23 November 2021