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Understanding key positions of the Least Developed Countries in climate change negotiations
Publication, 01 September 2014
Climate change negotiators have several gaps to bridge at the COP19 talks. Photo credit: Oxfam International
COP19: What the Least Developed Countries expect from the climate talks
… to action.  Yet climate finance remains a promise that is worryingly under-delivered. Out of the assessed US$5 billion needed to implement the projects identified by the LDCs (under their National Adaptation Programmes of Action or NAPAs), … , released yesterday, shows that global emissions of carbon dioxide under a business-as-usual scenario are set to rise by 59 gigatonnes by …
Insight, 06 November 2013
Logging trucks in Ghana: legislation requires that to charge stumpage fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Communities stumped as government fails to make loggers pay
… will tell you that it's all about the right incentives. After under-pricing led to over-harvesting in the 1990s, Ghanaian regulations … fees on harvested timber at levels that keep the timber industry under control.  The degree to which it has succeeded is now under close scrutiny as the European Union (EU) reviews its timber trade …
Insight, 19 March 2015
Groups of people gather around tables and talk
Save the date for 2020 Development and Climate Days
News, 09 November 2020
Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)
LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations
… months. There are also various other submissions and roundtables not under the APA. Roundtables under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice … on the global stocktake are developing an essentially new process under the UN climate regime, so it's more likely that those discussions …
Insight, 01 November 2017
Thousands of workers assemble and test fiber optic systems in a Chinese factory (Photo: Steve Jurvetson, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Governments in developing countries need to act now to avoid technology's threat to jobs
… shows that in other sectors, agricultural smallholders may lose out under increasingly automated agribusiness as distribution systems are … those less skilled. Workers will lose protection and bargaining power under the on-demand 'gig economy', which will increasingly operate at …
News, 07 August 2017
Woman cultivating a garden with plants and palm trees.
Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey
… this experience to design a green, inclusive and resilient recovery. Under the Global Commission on Adaptation , a partnership of peers … the International Aid Transparency Initiative and the UNFCCC under Article 9.5. These measures to track progress and the events will …
Insight, 12 January 2021
Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
… Following a selection process, seven projects are now funded and under way:  In Nigeria, Bayero University and the Lovatt Foundation will … collaborations.  Two further calls for proposals will be issued under the Urban Crises Learning Fund, in late June and September 2016. …
News, 23 June 2016
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New Hope for Indian Food Security? The System of Rice Intensification
… has improved rice yields significantly and expanded the area under which rice is cultivated. However, in the last 20 years yields and~the area under rice have stagnated. The two most significant reasons for this …
Publication, 01 November 2009
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
… host partners aiming to influence the ‘ambition mechanism’ processes under the UNFCCC – particularly the Talanoa Dialogue and global … enlarged . Programme and themes The parallel sessions were arranged under four themes that are central to developing resilience to climate … challenges or emerging opportunities. Participants in the sessions under this theme used their experience, evidence and learning to develop …
Event, 08 December 2018