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Rich countries on track to give little more than half of climate adaptation finance promised at COP26
… Rich countries and multilateral organisations are on track to provide little more than half of the promised US$40bn per year … they made at COP26, to enable comparability among donors, suggests rich countries will provide $10.8bn in climate finance for adaptation … Rich countries on track to give little more than half of climate …
News, 08 June 2022
Aerial view of two side of farming land, split down the middle by a river. the left side is the community land that has been planted with oil palm and the right side is the Padang Sugihan Wildlife Reserve - Sebokor, whose large trees are no longer visible.
New deforestation regulations must consider smallholder farmers
… there has also been a power shift between producing and consuming countries, with the latter exerting more influence through trade … Since 2010, economic inequality and the growing gap between rich and poor countries, coupled with the rise of emerging economies, … by a lack of data. When designing legislation, it is difficult to track impacts on women and Indigenous Peoples, as they may not be …
Insight, 09 July 2025
Montage of Kristalina Georgieva, Mia Mottley and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The third woman – getting trade back on track
… director, is championing more support for highly indebted poor countries, including through debt for nature and climate swaps. Prime … financial system to provide more support for vulnerable, low-income countries to deal with the climate crisis and inequality. Commanding the … with clean energy versus fossil fuels. Such rules that seem to favour rich countries have been resisted by many low-income countries fearing a …
Insight, 26 April 2023
Miners showing minerals.
Critical minerals and the just energy transition: opportunities and challenges
… copper, lithium and nickel. Governments in consumer and processing countries are looking to secure their supplies, while many mineral-rich countries are seeking opportunities to benefit more from the increased …
Project, 30 July 2024
A woman picks out grass from a garden with baby sleeping on her back.
Generating ambition for locally led adaptation
… at the 15th UN climate change conference in 2009, the world’s rich countries agreed to provide developing countries US$100 billion in … specifically targets locally-led outcomes. In addition, it is hard to track progress towards these goals. Access to finance remains a …
Project, 30 August 2024
Men survey a flooded road in Kenya.
Rich nations fail to meet 8 climate-finance pledges analysis shows
… Institute for Environment and Development — the study comes as countries prepare for the latest round of intergovernmental … the costs of adapting to a problem they have not caused.   And rich nations have not provided enough transparent information to prove … cent of the climate finance through these UNFCCC funds.   The poor track record of rich nations in meeting their fast start finance pledges …
News, 26 November 2012
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 … in Paris, France in December 2015 The Financing for Development (FfD) track will also hold a major UN conference in Addis in July, where … and ways of providing overseas development assistance (ODA) from the rich to the poor countries, and The fourth and final track is about …
Insight, 17 April 2015
Rich nations failing to keep Copenhagen promise to help poor nations adapt to climate-change
… "In last December's climate summit in Copenhagen the developed countries committed to provide developing nations with US$30 billion … it will support, and how the global community will be able to track adherence to pledges and ensure that the funding is truly new and … to oversee, account for and enforce the delivery of the money that rich nations promised to support adaptation to climate change in …
News, 16 November 2010
A woman carries jerrycans and tree men behind her wear masks and red vests with a red cross in the back
Applying the lessons of COVID-19 to the climate crisis
Insight, 23 February 2022
Radical new way to protect nature’s diversity provides incentives and helps tackle poverty
… system of its kind for raising funds as an incentive to conserve the rich diversity of life while making sure the women, children and men … companies or individuals, such as farmers, in developing countries would provide biocredits through new market institutions set … For conservation to work, the people living amid and near areas rich in biodiversity need to benefit from its protection. With …
News, 03 March 2020