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Workshop participants were briefed on the climate negotiating priorities of the Least Developed Countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks
News, 13 November 2017
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
… at how to assist local communities to take action on adapting to climate change.  The conference declaration says the 2015 global agenda … most vulnerable.  The Nairobi Declaration will be delivered  to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris later this … (GOK), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS). 2015 will …
News, 29 April 2015
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… With less than a week to the UN climate change conference in Paris (COP21), African countries, … change and currently many are experiencing the effects of El Niño. IIED's Independent Expert Group has commissioned a series of interviews … Climate change … Unheard voices: what do the Least Developed Countries want from COP21? …
Article, 24 November 2015
Saleemul Huq introduces a new series explaining the UNFCCC process from the perspective of the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
The Road to Paris: how can the world's most vulnerable countries be heard?
News, 30 October 2015
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
Event, 05 November 2016
Saleemul Huq is interviewed as part of the Road to Paris video series (Image: IIED)
Road to Paris video series: the Least Developed Countries' perspective (episode 4)
Article, 06 November 2015
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
Insight, 21 October 2015
Heads of delegations at the 2015 UN climate talks (Photo: Office of the President of Mexico, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Steps to enforcing the Paris Agreement
… On 12 December 2015, 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement , a treaty under … before the period begins. Dr Achala Abeysinghe  ( achala.abeysinghe@iied.org ) is principal researcher in IIED's Climate Change Group , and … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP22) …
Article, 21 September 2016
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
Insight, 28 August 2015
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)
Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable
News, 30 April 2015