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Climate adaptation needs urgent philanthropy support
… Climate change, once seen as a threat to our future, is now understood as the … resilience is possible In 2021, 15 countries formed the Champions Group on Adaptation Finance to increase and improve finance for … to drive justice and change, beginning with the steps listed above. A group of adaptation and climate justice champions within philanthropy …
Insight, 31 May 2023
New tool helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change
… to rainfall and temperature, to Malawi in Southern Africa where climate change threatens to increase both droughts and flooding. Funded by the … In the Outer Hebrides, for example, the Climate Change Working Group of the islands’ Community Planning Partnership used the framework … Climate change … helps communities from Outer Hebrides to Southern Africa to adapt to climate change …
News, 10 August 2022
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Improving climate negotiation skills for African officials
News, 07 November 2023
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Champions Group on Adaptation Finance join forces to accelerate adaptation finance solutions beyond COP26
News, 08 November 2021
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Brazilian philanthropies’ vision to tackle social and climate injustices
… on the role of philanthropic action in driving transformative change. Could philanthropy move on from pursuing incremental approaches … action to support locally-led action to tackle social and climate injustices. Here are some lessons we learned. Brazilian … explore more effective ways of tackling social inequalities and the climate crisis.  We learned about initiatives ranging from establishing …
Insight, 22 May 2025
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Scoring adaptation finance for locally led adaptation: a way to make it accountable
… chain. This chain typically comprises providers (bilateral donors, climate funds, philanthropies), intermediaries who hold and reallocate … But this model often fails communities on the frontlines of climate change. Climate funding dwindles as it travels through the … Climate change …
Project, 02 September 2024
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Announcing the Saleemul Huq Memorial Scholarship finalists and C-CIQ toolkit launch
… The world is witnessing an unprecedented scale of climate change impacts that are manifesting in both slow and rapid onset events, … , executive director, IIED Zinta Zommers, vice-chair, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead for … Climate change …
Event, 09 September 2024
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Understanding the gender imbalance at the international climate negotiations
… under the banner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to negotiate key decisions and champion ambitious action … with a focus on LDCs. To support and guide this research, an advisory group composed of LDC negotiators, experts from the UNFCCC secretariat … Climate change … Understanding the gender imbalance at the international climate negotiations …
Insight, 07 June 2023
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Fostering regional collaboration and national implementation
Article, 13 October 2023
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Good practices in accessing and delivering adaptation finance to support Small Island Developing States and least developed countries
… Adaptation finance is central to action on climate change, yet it often fails to adequately reach those who need it the … the current adaptation finance systems and practices, the LDC Group, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Champions Group … Climate change …
Publication, 10 October 2024