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Delivery plan announced for $100bn climate finance
… wealthy countries have gone a long way to fulfil their promise of delivering US$100bn in climate finance to the world’s most climate vulnerable countries – finally putting words into action. And … Delivery plan announced for $100bn climate finance …
News, 25 October 2021
Drylands landscape with cattle in the background
CBA15: Can adaptation be a superhero in the 'super year' for climate and nature?
Insight, 17 February 2021
A couple walking a dog on a small island very close to the water.
Transformational change is needed in the adaptation finance landscape for LDCs and SIDS
Insight, 06 July 2023
Fishing boats
Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives
… and culture to regulating important functions such as carbon sinks, climate and flood protection. Coastal waters are the workplace of … Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives …
Project, 31 July 2019
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… With less than a week to the UN climate change conference in Paris (COP21), African countries, … the talks. African countries have seen some of the worst effects of climate change and currently many are experiencing the effects of El … the reality that they face, the actions being taken, the role for climate finance – and their hopes for a Paris treaty. Furthermore, on …
Article, 24 November 2015
Members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity celebrate the adoption of the decision on the new Subsidiary Body for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at the closing plenary of COP16.
Historic platform for Indigenous Peoples, but finance failure at COP16
… – could not be finalised.” Nicola Sorsby, researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group, agreed: "It is disappointing that a … “This sets a poor precedent for the upcoming agreement of the new climate finance target (New Collective Quantified Goal) at COP29 in … Baku. Underinvestment in nature will undermine any decision made on climate finance, since nature and climate are so closely linked and …
News, 06 November 2024
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Money from within: leveraging producer organisations' finance
… and farm producers is limited, hindering their effective action on climate, nature, livelihoods and food security. However, forest and farm … diverse member needs, strengthen solidarity, empower women, increase climate resilience and fund sustainable, productive activities, often at … finance. They can effectively provide an efficient channel to deliver climate and nature finance to the local level. …
Publication, 03 April 2024
New tool helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change
… to rainfall and temperature, to Malawi in Southern Africa where climate change threatens to increase both droughts and flooding. Funded … of Europe recently shows that nowhere is immune from the effects of climate change and we will all need to adapt.” Ruth Wolstenholme, managing director of Sniffer, said: “Climate change is a global issue, we need to learn from each other about …
News, 10 August 2022
A motorbike rides through a flooded road. A woman tries to cross the road from the left hand side pavement.
IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities
… The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last week provides a definitive assessment of the impacts of climate change. With its wide-ranging analysis of oceans, water systems, … poverty – the findings are stark in their warnings of how changes in climate will impact our world. The report does however also outline …
Insight, 09 March 2022
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Ensuring COP25 delivers increased ambition in 2020
… Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Madrid, Spain, this December will be a turning point … on the political momentum generated by the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit held on 23 September in New York. To that end, … Climate change …
Publication, 01 November 2019