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Producer organisations offer huge potential for delivering nature and climate finance
… to generate crucial investment finance for their members and deliver climate and nature funding to rural communities.  Small-scale and family … to smallholders: it extends to their significant capacity to channel climate and nature finance directly to the local level.  Researchers say … Producer organisations offer huge potential for delivering nature and climate finance …
News, 04 April 2024
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A shrinking pot: how can the LDC climate fund keep up with targets?
… At the 2024 UN climate negotiations held in Baku (COP29) parties set a new climate finance goal − the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) (PDF) . This goal sets the target to mobilise finance for climate action from a new floor of $300 billion to $1.3 trillion per … Climate change … How can multilateral climate funds reach people that need it most? …
Insight, 16 January 2026
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REDAA impact strategy
Publication, 23 September 2026
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Global climate finance leader to deliver 2024 Barbara Ward Lecture
… welcomes Mafalda Duarte , the executive director of the Green Climate Fund, to share her aspirations to challenge this major part of … 14 May 2024.  Ms Duarte has been at the forefront of the Green Climate Fund, the world’s largest multilateral climate fund, since August 2023.  She is renowned for her innovative …
News, 19 March 2024
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Multilateral climate funds: three ways to step up for the world’s most vulnerable nations
… ‘ New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG') delivered at last year’s UN climate negotiations (COP29) set a goal of mobilising at least US$300 … annually for developing countries by 2035.  To deliver this goal, climate financiers, including multilateral climate funds (MCFs), set up by the United Nations Framework Convention …
Insight, 28 October 2025
Woman checking the ground and how the forest is growing in Timor-Leste.
Multilateral climate funds are making changes to support locally led adaptation: where have they got to?
… Locally led adaptation (LLA) represents a fundamental shift in how climate adaptation finance is designed and delivered. The approach, … These principles are increasingly shaping how multilateral climate funds structure and deliver on financing mechanisms and programmes. In this insight, we examine how two multilateral climate funds that are particularly important for adaptation finance …
Insight, 18 November 2025
Two women are checking crops in a field, talking.
How LDCs and SIDS are building finance tools to take adaptation projects to scale
Insight, 19 March 2026
A women wielding a hoe tends to her crops before a spectacular background of green hills
Bhutan’s climate ambition: showcasing leadership, delivering inclusive action
… Bhutan grapples with tackling poverty in the face of escalating climate risks such as flash floods, glacial lake outburst, floods, … with a fragile mountainous ecosystem, we are highly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, hydropower and forestry. … we are doing more than our fair share in taking action to mitigate climate change and adapt to the impacts. As part of the LDC climate …
Insight, 08 March 2022
Two farmers washing up a solar panel in Senegal.
Reframing energy access within climate adaptation and resilience for smallholder farmers
… Agriculture underpins global livelihoods but is highly vulnerable to climate uncertainty. While the sector consumes around 30% of global … the interlinked challenges of energy poverty, gender inequality and climate vulnerability requires integrated approaches and stronger … close persistent funding gaps across agriculture, energy access and climate adaptation. What is IIED doing? In 2024 IIED published work on …
Project, 16 January 2026
Protestors at a cafe sit-in near COP21. They are holding signs that say 'Ambition fair shares for 1.5', 'Finance adaptation finance now!' and 'Justice human rights'.
COP30 is the moment to show the world why climate adaptation must be locally led
… The fast-approaching UN climate negotiations (COP30) have been dubbed the ‘adaptation COP’. Hosts Brazil are demonstrating strong commitment to delivering collective, concrete action on adaptation. And they have been … leadership at the centre of adaptation is not optional; it is key to delivering meaningful and effective adaptation. …
Insight, 25 September 2025