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Arid landscape in the Mount Kenya region
Archive of completed 'Global ambition for climate action and justice' projects
Article, 14 April 2021
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… significant for the poorest communities in the world and the poorest countries – which is why IIED recently hosted a retreat in New York to focus on the demands of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the post-2015 agenda. These four strands … Climate change … 2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries …
Insight, 17 April 2015
Animation of a woman picking vegetables
Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone
News, 15 March 2021
Vanuatu is one of the Least Developed Countries, and is increasingly affected by climate change. Here local people are constructing a river crossing using rocks and coral after flooding destroyed a bridge (Photo: 350.org, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs
… The world's least developed countries (LDCs) have been recognised as needing financial and technological … Climate change … Financing climate change adaptation in LDCs …
Insight, 22 April 2015
A solitary tree on an island surrounded by water. Some people and cattle stand and sit underneath the tree.
Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities
… of climate finance as it could be channelled accordingly: to countries where climate migrants remain and to the countries receiving … refugees’ is just one example of the kind of loss and damage that the least developed countries (LDCs) are already facing; catastrophic impacts of … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP26) …
Insight, 30 October 2021
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A burden to share? Addressing unequal climate impacts in the Least Developed Countries
… Less than one-seventh of the US$5 billion needed to fund the Least~Developed Countries’ (LDCs’) most urgent climate change adaptation projects has … Climate change … A burden to share? Addressing unequal climate impacts in the Least Developed Countries …
Publication, 01 November 2013
Landscape in Punakha, Bhutan
Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line with international climate commitments
… the Paris Agreement is dependent on national action. We support the least developed countries (LDCs) to strengthen institutional, policy and legislative … Climate change … Stepping up global ambition for climate action and justice … Supporting LDCs to strengthen national legislative and policy responses in line …
Project, 18 September 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
… or sea level over the next 50-100 years. Looking longer-term These countries are therefore beginning to develop National Adaptation Plans … and long term climate risks. They are getting some help from the Least Developed Countries Expert Group , which the UNFCCC set up in 2001 to … Climate change … Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level …
Insight, 11 March 2014
Economics of climate change adaptation in least developed countries
… The IPCC has identified the least developed countries (LDCs) as those that will be most affected by climate change … Climate change … Economics of climate change adaptation in least developed countries …
Project, 24 September 2008
Women sit next to piles of vegetables like onions, tomatoes, garlic.
Five pathways to deliver rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs
… inequality and climate change, with the poorest and most vulnerable countries disproportionately affected. In the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), economies have been upended while health and … Climate change … rapid support for a green and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the LDCs …
Insight, 30 September 2021