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Woman waters seedlings
Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries
… is also captured in the widely endorsed principles for locally-led adaptation . Predictable:  climate programmes supporting LDCs … very short timeframes − commonly 1-3 years. It is often unclear if initiatives will continue until after funding has stopped. Short-term … finance goal is high on the COP26 agenda. Now, the international community must reflect on how to make this finance high-quality, …
Insight, 03 November 2021
Prema Gopalan stands centre stage in an orange sari. Two men present her with a certificate; two others stand behind and applaud.
Prema Gopalan remembered
News, 23 May 2022
A group of people sit in a circle outside on grass.
Engaging citizens for socially just climate action
… income level, literacy and migratory status. The challenge is for countries to build consensus around the policy reforms that are … understand how citizen engagement participatory processes and locally led climate action can be improved and fed into national level climate policy decision-making. We focus on social movements as initiatives for locally-led engagement and participation in policy …
Project, 15 October 2020
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Win–win in Belize: incubating community businesses that protect forests
… Belize is a small country with high forest cover, accounting for 61% of the land. But the nation’s biodiverse forest landscapes are … area management, resulting in the founding and growth of sustainable community forest businesses. A project funded by the Darwin Initiative and led by the University of Edinburgh attempted just that. With support …
Publication, 01 April 2018
Landscape of fields and forest
Q&A: Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
Article, 09 August 2021
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
Insight, 30 September 2021
People sitting in a pasture
International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)
… INMIP is an Indigenous Peoples-led network coordinated by the Peruvian indigenous NGO ANDES (Association for Nature and Sustainable Development) . It aims to strengthen the … learning about how to address shared challenges through empowering community-led processes. Background INMIP was established in Bhutan in …
Project, 27 June 2019
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… Flickr channel  that you don’t want to miss.  1 Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development … global South.   Local governments and grassroots organisations have led urban responses that have been pivotal in shaping the pandemic’s … Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international community and the LDC Group might support LDCs to effectively engage in …
Article, 17 December 2021
A solar panel outside a rural house on stilts
Critical theme: Can China help build a global eco-civilisation?
… a false binary choice: between China “ buying into the Western-led world order or trying to overthrow it by waging war ”. Commentators … and Road Initiative is pushing state-backed and private financing for infrastructure projects deep into the lands and rural communities of developing countries.   Both these initiatives could have profound effects on global climate and …
Event, 25 September 2019
A group of people, largely young people, gather to pose for a photo, inside a conference venue.
Building a resilient future led by youth
News, 17 November 2022