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Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
… of climate politics following the Copenhagen climate summit (COP15). Then Christiana Figueres , executive secretary of the UN …
Insight, 21 October 2014
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
Insight, 14 December 2015
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
Insight, 21 October 2015
Climate protestors in Doha, Qatar.
Seven ways to reignite climate action after dismal Doha
… campaigners have rightly been accused of crying wolf. Before COP15 in Copenhagen, there was talk of “ten days to save the planet”, …
Insight, 10 December 2012
Haramata Communications Initiative
… Focus on... climate change: Copenhagen – what happened?; voices from COP15; climate change: the reality in Kenyan villages; small grants to …
Article, 13 October 2008
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… degrees where we are currently headed. It follows a failed attempt at COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.  LDCs have been identified under …
Insight, 17 April 2015
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Le bilan de l’Objectif mondial d’adaptation: de l’accord de Paris au Programme de travail Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh
Publication, 11 April 2022
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15).  The post-2020 GBF will be a major milestone in global …
Article, 17 December 2021
Bangladeshi climate negotiator Qazi K Ahmad
Q&A: World leaders must abandon their narrow political interests to deliver the best deal at COP21
… on the basis of 12 points, which are taken from Copenhagen (COP15). For example, the warming target of 1.5 degrees or less than 2 …
Article, 24 November 2015
Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum in developing nations
… receive ongoing support and briefings in the run up to the crucial COP15 meeting Copenhagen in 2009. They will be helped to join networks …
News, 21 January 2008