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Danise Love Dennis
Learning to negotiate for climate action
… Protection Agency . Her role is to increase public awareness of climate-related issues and how they affect her small West African … European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop … workshops to monitoring the capacity building track for the LDC Group at the  UNFCCC negotiations in Madrid . …
Long read, 20 February 2020
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Philanthropy’s role in sustaining fisheries for people and nature
… communities, numbering about half a billion people, are the largest group of ocean users and are central to achieving Sustainable … for sustainable fisheries management, biodiversity conservation and climate action, and they play a pivotal role in food security and good … from inequitable governance, overfishing and the impacts of climate change.  Philanthropy can provide flexible, patient funds to help local …
Publication, 21 November 2023
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
Event, 05 November 2016
A host of government leaders made pledges at the 2015 UN Climate Summit hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Photos: Saleemul Huq/IIED)
A week that may change the world
… society invited by Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to attend the UN Climate Summit . The week kicked off on 20 September, when I was invited … communities in Bangladesh. A South Asian contingent against climate change The next day, on Sunday, 21 September, I joined the People's … (LDCs), including Bangladesh, the Gambia, Nepal (which chairs the LDC Group in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change …
Insight, 25 September 2014
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Enhancing women’s diversification into tree growing for climate resilience
… This climate resilience case study (No.7) from Tanzania is the seventh of ten … supports its members to find nature based solutions (NbS) that give climate resilience – with a particular focus on women’s empowerment.  … market opportunity – and TTGAU helps them gain market access. Climate change affects not only tree planting, but also associated farming …
Publication, 01 November 2020
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Technology development and transfer, the Least Developed Countries and the future climate regime
Publication, 01 November 2015
In 1992 the United Nations called Mexico City "the most polluted city on the planet". City authorities took radical steps to cut pollution, but Mexico City still has smog and is increasingly vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Fidel Gonzalez, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Should cities invest in climate mitigation?
Insight, 21 September 2015
34 wind turbines in Adama, Ethiopia, produce 51 megawatts. Ethiopia is an early adopter of climate change policy (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Author Q&A: The political economy of low carbon resilient development
… Efforts to tackle climate change have historically fallen into one of two separate camps: … Q&A, Neha Rai , a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group  and one of the book's editors, discusses the how and the why. Why … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP22) …
Article, 08 November 2016
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
… The debate on geoengineering as a potential approach for addressing climate change has been hotting up over the last year. This is partly due to the … research is regulated and governed. The Least Developed Countries Group has been a powerful voice for global social justice in the climate … Climate change …
Insight, 20 December 2017
Gaspar Martins sits alongside representatives of the Marshall Islands, United States, Germany, Norway and others as part of the "High Ambition Coalition" (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Least Developed Countries create pressure for climate shift
News, 09 December 2015