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UK aid cuts threaten climate leadership role of COP26 president
Insight, 30 March 2021
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Can COP26 lay firm foundations for an ambitious new climate finance goal?
… In 2009, wealthy nations pledged to jointly mobilise US$100 billion of climate finance per year by 2020. This collective fund was designed to support developing nations deal with the effects of climate change and build greener economies. Yet here we are, over a decade on, and the climate finance goal remains unmet. As COP president, the UK government …
Insight, 11 October 2021
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COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, and the Indigenous Peoples and local communities governing them
News, 23 November 2023
Woman walks after a donkey carrying jerry cans
IPCC publishes its Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report
… “We are seeing first-hand the cost of inaction on climate change. While many rich countries are suffering a cost-of-living … delivered to help lower-income countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and pay for what those countries have already lost.” … Climate change …
News, 20 March 2023
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CBA17: back in person, ready to harness energy to drive forward the locally led adaptation agenda
… different sectors and areas of expertise.   Four of the themes are: Climate finance: we will focus on how climate finance delivery mechanisms can be transparent and deliver … intermediaries and recipients. We will reimagine ways to deliver climate finance that enables flexibility, and innovative approaches to …
Insight, 15 March 2023
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From risk to resilience: incubating adaptive climate-proof businesses
… to support forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) to achieve “climate-resilient landscapes and improved livelihoods".  The training … support capabilities that incorporate 30 practical options for climate resilience in FFPO businesses in Africa. Across all sectors, … problems that cause failure, including the ever-increasing threat of climate change, seen in variable rainfall patterns and extreme weather …
Article, 15 February 2022
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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2024
… The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) is pioneering a model for delivering finance directly to forest and farm producer organisations … FFPOs can be game-changing investors in landscape restoration, climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity and …
Publication, 31 March 2025
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
Insight, 15 December 2016
Aerial view of trees with a town and the sea in the backround.
Reform the global financial system to support transformational adaptation
Insight, 03 July 2023
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Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa
… The world faces a triple and interconnected crisis: the climate emergency, rapid biodiversity destruction and entrenched … new, innovative and catalytic approaches for adapting to a changed climate.  IIED, FSD Africa (FSDA) and Cambridge Institute for … to 'business-unusual' investments that can utilise public climate finance to tackle the biggest challenge of our time.   What is …
Project, 01 September 2021