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Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
… Climate change adaptation may cost US$75–100 billion per year between 2010 and … • Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are as vulnerable to climate change as their clients. • Livelihood improvements will benefit both … Climate change …
Insight, 21 March 2011
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… working to highlight the importance of decentralising development and climate finance – to make sure that funding gets to those that need it … dimension The most effective way to reduce poverty and respond to climate change varies by location. This means that local actors – local … Climate change …
Article, 25 January 2017
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IIED's best of 2021: publications
… jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that investments in … for Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international community and the LDC Group might support LDCs to effectively engage in the new format of …
Article, 17 December 2021
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
International climate adaptation conference says 2015 summits must address the needs of the world's poor
News, 29 April 2015
Colombia's government and left-wing insurgents sign a historic agreement ending 52 years of conflict. Some commentators suggest the peace process has opened the way for major progress on the SDGs (Photo: Gobierno de Chile, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
SDGs: from adopted framework to political force for change
… the goals have received little public attention, which is unlikely to change as the Brexit fallout continues to dominate political discourse.  … However, people around the world are pushing for concerted action on climate change, economic and social inequality, and environmental … Tom Bigg  ( [email protected] ) is head of the Strategy and Learning Group at IIED. …
Insight, 17 February 2017
Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)
Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations
… Every round of talks adds to the complexity of the international climate change decision-making process. Agendas balloon, new bodies are formed, … and Research (UNITAR) Helping organise and participating in LDC Group strategy meetings. These meetings were supported by the United … Climate change …
Project, 28 March 2018
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
Insight, 13 November 2013
The island nation of Tuvalu is one of the Least Developed Countries that is particularly vulnerable to climate change, with an average elevation of just two meters above sea level (Photo: Nick Hobgood, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The road through Paris: key messages for ministers
Insight, 09 November 2015
Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
… The global agreement on climate change reached in Paris sets out a clear agenda for national-level … researcher (agriculture and biodiversity) in IIED’s Natural Resources Group . For more information, see  www.bioculturalheritage.org . … Climate change …
Insight, 05 February 2016
Children go to school on boat in flood-prone Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B Akash/Panos
Least developed countries lead on low-carbon resilience
Insight, 16 October 2013