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How to unlock US$1.3 trillion in resilience finance: using risk assessment to drive investment and impact
… Climate change is intensifying economic losses worldwide, with the … Climate change …
Publication, 10 November 2025
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Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions
… and basic services, making them especially vulnerable to climate change. At the same time, up to two-thirds of global greenhouse … used to draw the straightforward conclusion: cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost, as UN Secretary General Antonio … urban experts, the IPCC is preparing a Special Report on Cities and Climate Change , expected in 2027. But for the 1.1 billion people in …
Insight, 20 November 2024
Group of community members Kibaale, Uganda are sitting down and discussing during consultations with officials. Two women are sitting on blue chairs, listening and noting things down on notebooks.
Country platforms: are we asking the right questions?
… have capacity to align diverse funding sources behind national climate priorities, reduce fragmentation and improve coordination.  From the Bangladesh Climate and Development Partnership to the Just Energy Transition … loans and grants, support sectoral transitions, and aim to scale climate action. Yet, most platforms still operate within donor-recipient …
Insight, 29 October 2025
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How devolved climate finance can deliver climate resilience at local level
News, 14 November 2016
The Finance and Biodiversity pavilion at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.
Finance for nature and climate: shared learning on common challenges
Insight, 28 October 2024
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Delivering real change: getting international climate finance to the local level
Publication, 01 March 2017
A woman buying firewood at Bamako, Mali. IIED has been working with the government of Mali to set up local climate funds to help communities be more resilient during floods and droughts (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Poorest must be heard on climate action to deliver Paris Agreement’s success
Insight, 04 November 2016
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
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Climate funds need to prioritise local action
… biggest multilateral ‘green funds’ needs to ensure locally-led climate action is central to any reform plan. The organisation’s … wants to make it easier for countries from the global South to access climate finance. Its focus is on four main funds: the Green Climate … the G20 review process can help build momentum for change.”   In delivering IIED’s 2024 Barbara Ward Lecture , the executive director of …
News, 17 June 2024
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Interview: New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it
Article, 30 November 2023