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What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the Least Developed Countries
… that becomes effective over time through learning. International climate talks are serving as a key platform for bridging such learning. The LDCs, from the frontlines of climate impacts, are pioneering large-scale and innovative adaptation … scope and delivery. Some key lessons that we can learn from the LDC Group are highlighted. …
Publication, 01 August 2020
Comoros, the home of LDC negotiator Fatima Athoumani, has the Indian Ocean as a close neighbour (Photo: David Stanley, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The sharp learning curve of an LDC negotiator
… archipelago, located 300 kilometres off east Africa’s coastline. Climate change is increasing our vulnerability to threats such as sea-level rise … and a Least Developed Country (LDC), we are battling hard against climate change – but the odds are stacked against us. I have worked in … Climate change …
Insight, 12 December 2018
Development and Climate days at COP17
News, 06 October 2011
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
… key global summits – on finance, on sustainable development and on climate – will define the ambition and direction of this agenda for the … event for establishing a new international agreement for climate change. Organised with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) , … Rai ([email protected]) is senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change Group . …
Insight, 28 August 2015
2017: pastoralists in Isiolo county in Kenya are digging for water in dried-up river beds. Agricultural insurance schemes can help pastoralists and farmers be more resilient to climate shocks (Photo: Denis Onyodi/KRCS)
Insuring against climate risk in Kenya
… In Kenya, climate change is already having an impact. There have been 12 serious droughts … This is the first of three blogs from members of the Government Group Network on Climate Change Mainstreaming . The second focused on … Climate change … Insuring against climate risk in Kenya …
Insight, 06 June 2017
Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)
LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations
… have been very busy this year. In advance of the intersessional UN climate change negotiations in May, also in Bonn, the LDCs made submissions on … wasn't a sure thing, and the closing plenary of the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA) was on the verge of derailing on the … Climate change …
Insight, 01 November 2017
Delegates from the LDC Group, including chair Gebru Jember Endalew and IIED's Achala Abeysinghe discuss the revised APA text, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo: IISD/ENB/Kiara Worth)
Introduction to our work on global climate law, policy and governance: supporting LDCs in and outside of the UNFCCC process
Article, 17 December 2012
UNFCCC negotiations session, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo Janna Tenzing/IIED)
Facilitating better representation of LDCs in the UNFCCC process
Project, 28 March 2018
A borehole in Zambia, among the countries to have started thinking about NAPs, is developed for domestic water and irrigation as part of climate change adaptation measures (Photo: Pascal Manyakaidze via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level
… began in 2001 and was coordinated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In recent years, all of 48 have completed their NAPAs, … They are getting some help from the Least Developed Countries Expert Group , which the UNFCCC set up in 2001 to provide advice and technical … Climate change …
Insight, 11 March 2014
An American predicament that threatens the Green Climate Fund
… In the context of the multilateral climate change negotiations, this global realization has slowly, but inexorably … Pa Ousman Jarju of the Gambia, Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group (LDC) , Fred Onduri Machulu, Former Chair of the LDC Expert Group … Climate change … An American predicament that threatens the Green Climate Fund …
Insight, 03 November 2011