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Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
Insight, 12 November 2016
Francophone negotiators sitting around a table (Photo: UNITAR)
Climate change negotiation skills: training for LDC negotiators
Insight, 28 July 2016
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
… also provide long-term feedback systems for the farmer.  A call to COP21  But markets are not going to change by themselves. Markets … need to learn to play by these rules.   Are we coming of age at COP21? Ina Porras  ( [email protected] ) is a senior researcher in the …
Insight, 08 December 2015
Paris, January 2015: More than one million people march against terrorism (Photo: Olivier Ortelpa, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Rushing into a new year
Insight, 13 January 2015
Citizens' protests against climate change action, such as this march in New York in 2014, have moved from the streets to the courts (Photo: South Bend Voice, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Using the power of judiciary to protect people from climate change
… there is a weak outcome at the Paris climate negotiations in Paris (COP21) in December, national governments could still face legal action. … have not been compelled to take the degree of action required. COP21 in Paris may result in a dynamic and durable international …
Insight, 24 July 2015
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
Insight, 28 August 2015
Tidal damage on the small island nation of Kiribati. Small island developing nations, especially the atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Jodie Gatfield, AusAID)
Paris Agreement must stand on three pillars
Insight, 01 June 2015
Heads of delegations at the 2015 UN climate talks (Photo: Office of the President of Mexico, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Steps to enforcing the Paris Agreement
… such early entry into force would continue the momentum created at COP21, help spur early implementation and reinforce the global … such early entry into force would continue the momentum created at COP21, help spur early implementation and reinforce the global … intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) in advance of COP21. However, an INDC has no legal status under international law and …
Article, 21 September 2016
Algeria unveils its renewable energy strategy; Africa has a "huge appetite for renewable sources of energy that will power its industries" (Photo: Magharebia, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
But, what is the Africa position?
Insight, 28 November 2015
An image of the world showing global surface temperatures: April 2016 was the hottest April on record, the seventh month in a row to break temperature records. You can watch a video progression of changing global temperatures below (Image: NASA)
Taking the Paris Agreement forward: what to expect in Bonn?
… the Paris Agreement, agreed at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in December. The agreement was a shared global accomplishment and … under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since COP21. The newly established interim body of the Paris Agreement – the …
Insight, 16 May 2016