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A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… The GCF has promised a 'paradigm shift' by investing in more ambitious and innovative climate adaptation and mitigation activities. What should this shift … climate change really is the fundamental point here. Unless GCF projects help realign public and private investment, there’s a risk that …
Article, 10 October 2016
Woman carries a solar panel and walks through a forest
Five key questions for making the Global Goal on Adaptation work for local people and places
… May. Further informal workshops in June and July during the Regional Climate Weeks explored best practices for measuring adaptation, and … all of society.     The GGA must be based on an understanding of what resilience means for individual countries. So parties must think … salient given the recent dispute around the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) technical criteria for adaptation finance – when at the last GCF …
Insight, 22 July 2021
This sewage treatment plant in Delawas, Jaipur, was funded by the Asian Development Bank. There are concerns omitting local people from decision-making processes can lead to climate funds not sufficiently representing local priorities (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level
… Ahead of the Paris climate summit (COP21), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board will decide … and health ministries also have different roles to play in fostering resilience to climatic shocks among the poorest, and they often have … Climate change … Getting Green Climate Funding to the local level …
Insight, 28 October 2015
The event was held in the Africa pavilion at the Paris climate summit (Photo: IIED)
COP21 side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries
News, 02 December 2015
Vanuatu is one of the Least Developed Countries, and is increasingly affected by climate change. Here local people are constructing a river crossing using rocks and coral after flooding destroyed a bridge (Photo: 350.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs
Insight, 22 April 2015
Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
… The Green Climate Fund (GCF) board will meet at the end of this month in Songdo, … projects and programmes to reduce carbon emissions and build climate resilience in developing countries. But given the small number of … Climate change … The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend? …
Insight, 24 June 2016
Group of people listening to a man talking
Accessing climate finance in Kenya
… Kitui, and Wajir) are at an advanced stage of approving their County Climate Change Fund (CCCF) legislation. These new measures are providing … from the constituted pot to finance investments that builds their resilience to climate change.  Following Isiolo's example on resilience … to become "executing entities" under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) . The GCF was established by 194 governments to limit or reduce …
Insight, 18 April 2016
Officials on a climate finance course meet farmers in Bangladesh to learn about the benefits of solar irrigation pumps (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance for those who need it most
Article, 13 May 2016
Gambia is hoping to develop its tourism industry, but coastal areas are environmentally fragile and threatened by erosion. (Photo: Nick Brooks, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: The Gambia expects solid financial commitment at Paris climate talks
Article, 24 November 2015
Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region; smallholder folders in Least Developed Countries would be adversely affected by climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation
… Group (LEG) has provided support, capacity building and advice on climate change adaptation (CCA) to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). … adaptation and on how people and ecosystems can adapt to and build resilience against the impacts of climate change in highland, dryland … Future adaptation funding will most likely be supported from the GCF as 50 per cent of its funding is allocated to adaptation actions. Of …
Insight, 01 September 2015