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Reflections on a year of change and challenges ahead
… working with young people and women in Tanzania and Zanzibar on climate-resilience planning – the stories in this brief review of 2020 …
Publication, 01 May 2021
The island state of Tuvalu is profoundly threatened by climate change. Tuvalu’s Prime Minister announced plans to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. He was one of several LDC leaders to announce climate action. (Photo: Tomoaki Inaba)
Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries
… As the first Special Climate Envoy from a LDC , I left the United Nations on Tuesday encouraged. The climate summit that concluded that evening was the largest gathering of world leaders to discuss climate change in recent history.   While many only paid attention to … Climate change … Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries …
Insight, 28 September 2014
Forest with abundant vegetation
World leaders urged to back innovative nature financing at One Forest Summit in Gabon
… and civil society to tackle issues of environmental and climate protection alongside labour market and economic opportunities.  … are not offsets and could align with the Paris Agreement on climate and the recently adopted Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity … global partnership and platform to accelerate and scale-up programmes delivering biodiversity-positive carbon credit and nature certificates …
News, 01 March 2023
A flooded house
2020: the year to get money where it matters
… For climate and sustainable development policy, 2020 is the most important … signing of the Paris Agreement. In less than ten months' time when climate negotiators meet in Glasgow at COP26, they will be charged with … realise the promises of Paris, which pledged to bring the escalating climate emergency under control. But for the 2020 ‘super-year’ to truly …
Insight, 20 January 2020
Evidence of coastal erosion in The Gambia. Erosion is threatening not only Gambia's tourist industry but also wetlands, roads and infrastructure (Photo: Diego, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A diplomatic approach to raising climate ambition
Insight, 19 February 2016
Group of women forming a circle in a discussion
Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
Insight, 12 July 2021
Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.
How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable
… in local decision-making and contribute to the development and climate-resilience agenda. What do the women leaders do? Ensuring … during crisis The effectiveness of social protection programmes in delivering climate resilience during a crisis depends on benefits reaching the most … Climate change …
Insight, 05 July 2022
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
Event, 02 December 2018
IIED director Camilla Toulmin makes a key speech during the closing ceremony of CBA8
Toulmin: More power to the people to tackle climate change
… of the 8 th international conference on community based adaptation to climate change , which took place in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014. … systems for planning and financing the building of resilience to climate change, and what we've learned, whether from urban or rural … the amount of money available – although 50 per cent of the Green Climate Fund to adaptation would be great – but also how the funds are …
News, 12 May 2014
People use the pavement on Boulevard Richard Lenoir, close to the Bataclan concert venue which was the focus of the Paris attacks on 13 November, 2015, to share messages of support, and hope (Photo: Gael_Lombart, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
French lead drive for global climate agreement
Insight, 17 November 2015