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A group of young people protest holding signs about climate change and loudspeakers
High-level summit and video showcase poorest countries’ spearheading efforts to tackle climate crisis
News, 04 December 2020
Desertic landscape
A new COP26 decision for long-term strategies: what’s in it for LDCs?
Insight, 31 May 2021
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Practical action to tackle loss and damage risks: ten guiding principles
… The need for practical action to address loss and damage caused by the climate crisis is now urgent. Climate change impacts not only occur over a wide range of time … Climate change …
Publication, 03 October 2022
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"
COP27 and the important year ahead
Insight, 22 November 2021
A house on stilts, surrounded by flood water
Politics at play at the UN climate talks? The LDCs don’t have time for games
… This year has forced a climate change reality check on the world. A wealth of new evidence highlighting the speed and severity of the climate crisis has flooded our news feeds, the science irrefutable and … of the communities that have endured thousands of deaths due to climate-related disasters this year, the loss indescribable. People, …
Insight, 04 December 2019
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Adaptation finance: How can Durban deliver on past promises
Publication, 01 November 2011
People planting mushrooms.
Redesigning grant making for locally-led conservation
… locally led adaptation (LLA) principles – developed to ensure that climate adaptation finance is designed and delivered by local actors – … recognise that locally led adaptation is essential to effective climate action , there is also ample evidence that locally-led action is … biodiversity finance must reach the local level in the same way as climate finance.  The LLA principles – which include devolving decision …
Insight, 26 February 2024
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Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital
… cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.  Just three … need to recognise the centrality of this work, improve efforts to get climate and nature finance to these local groups, and improve their …
Publication, 27 February 2024
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Nature-based solutions: delivering national-level adaptation and global goals
… ecosystems, and the communities reliant on them, are vulnerable to climate change. But there is increasing recognition that ecosystems — if … can also form a strong line of defence against the direct impacts of climate change and support human adaptation over the long term. As the evidence base grows, ecosystems are increasingly prominent in climate change policy, especially in developing nations. Yet intentions …
Publication, 01 November 2018
Women delivering a package to another woman, all wearing face masks.
Climate justice needs vaccine justice
Insight, 01 February 2021