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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
… officials from more than 25 countries. They were briefed by leading climate negotiators and ambassadors, as well as legal advisors.   The … global climate talks. The  23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place from … by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Oxford Climate Policy . The workshop opened with a session led …
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
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)
… The Road to Paris video series was launched by IIED on 30 November to coincide with a month to go before the start of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties meeting in Paris … Climate change …
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
… key global summits – on finance, on sustainable development and on climate – will define the ambition and direction of this agenda for the coming decades. Against this backdrop, IIED is co-hosting an Asia-Pacific regional forum with UNDP to look at … the new Sustainable Sevelopment Goals (SDGs), due to be agreed at the UN General Assembly in September . The UN climate talks in Paris in …
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
… As the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA9) closes in Nairobi, Kenya , more than 400 delegates … Declaration (PDF) , which will be taken to Paris at this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed … Kenya (GOK), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies (BCAS). Saleemul …
News, 30 April 2015