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Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
Article, 14 June 2021
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… gets down to the local level – and enable greater voice by the poor and climate vulnerable to prioritise their needs. IIED is … split is less about north versus south and more between those who just want to stick with the traditional view of earmarking money for … with national bodies to access the GCF. This requires a freeze on giving any more GCF projects to multilateral banks. The GCF could also …
Article, 10 October 2016
'Land grabbing' in the shadow of the law in Africa
… decide in favour of investors, they can award large amounts of public money in compensation. Arbitral awards – the decisions taken by … agricultural investment and its impacts. Tinkering around the edges just will not work. Pushing the boundaries of legal rights The challenge is not just about policy making. National and international law already offers …
Insight, 13 October 2011
Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
… allocated funding so far and the length of time to disperse the money, the GCF is under growing pressure to spend the targeted US$2.5 … public climate finance channels an average of $51 million a year – or just 0.2 per cent of what is needed. Climate finance can't fill all the … agencies but restricts access for local projects that safeguard the poor and vulnerable. What's stopping funds reaching small-scale projects …
Insight, 24 June 2016