Search results

107 results
Cover for 22656GES.pdf
Declaración de Recife de la 19ª Conferencia Internacional sobre Adaptación basada en la Comunidad
Publication, 23 June 2025
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
… ratifying the 17 SDGs with sustainability at the core.  At COP21 in Paris in December 2015, the World Bank agreed to increase the …
Insight, 10 October 2016
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
An Ethiopian farmer arrives for a field day on climate change adaptation. Ethiopia is the first LDC to submit its intended Nationally Determined Contribution in preparation of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC (Photo: ILRI/ZerihunSewunet, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Next steps for climate negotiations on the road to Paris
Insight, 17 June 2015
International climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are preparing the text for a global climate deal to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A 1.5 degree goal could save us from ourselves
Insight, 10 June 2015
An image of the front of a stationary train on the Addis Ababa light rail system, which opened in 2015, and was the first to be built in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two railway lines, which have their own dedicated power grid, demonstrate how Ethiopia is seeking low-carbon energy initiatives (Photo: Wikipedia, via Google licence)
Q&A: Linking low-carbon pathways with the SDGs
… gap by 2030. Launched at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate talks in Paris, this initiative will significantly …
Article, 30 May 2016
Workshop participants were briefed on the climate negotiating priorities of the Least Developed Countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks
… for climate change '. One of IIED's most popular publications at COP21 in Paris in 2015 was ' Becoming a UNFCCC delegate: what you need …
News, 13 November 2017
A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… local stakeholders. I was in Paris last month on the sidelines of COP21 at IIED's REDD+ workshop , the Global Landscape Forum and the …
Insight, 07 January 2016
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
… post-2015 summit and the agreement of a post-2020 climate regime at COP21 in Paris next December. (He doesn't mention the other big one, …
Insight, 15 December 2014
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
… the public and private sector. On 30 November 2015, the first day of COP21, Norway, Germany, and the UK jointly pledged US$5 billion to REDD+ …
Insight, 17 December 2015