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UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum, and COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago during a preparatory press conference for COP31 held in Istanbul.

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Where to find IIED and partners at COP31: event listing

Event on 09 November 2026

A builder labours in the sun in India. Outdoor workers lose weeks of work every year due to extreme heat

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Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

20 July 2026

Farmer standing in their field in Cambodia, checking on harvest.

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Locally-led restoration: the critical link between land, nature, climate and people

Dilys Roe and Francesca Booker
13 October 2026

Man selling fruit and vegetable on the busy streets in India.

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Closing the data gaps on heat stress and developing strategies for resilience

15 October 2026

People from the Youth Group at COP30 gathered and listening to someone speak off-camera.

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The power of the process: why multilateral climate negotiations still matter

Binyam Gebreyes
03 June 2026

Young women and men negotiators gathered around a table, discussing.

Training women to influence high-stakes international climate talks

Impact story 2 minute read

An aerial view of a river that has flooded the surrounding area, showing fields and houses partly submerged by water.

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Is any country truly food-secure in the climate change era?

23 March 2026

Finance for climate resilience

Climate risk is financial risk. IIED is encouraging finance and business leaders to embed climate resilience in financial decisions, and invest in people and nature

Explore our resilience finance work

Locally led adaptation

See how IIED is working with diverse partners, including governments, donors, academia and other NGOs, to promote locally-led approaches that advance justice and resilience for people, climate and nature.

A boy wearing a yellow hat with his back to the camera stands next to trees with a hosepipe spraying water in the air as he waters vegtables.

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Evidence and tools for locally led adaptation

IIED Food Security Index

How secure is the world’s food supply? And what happens when the climate changes?

Explore the Index

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's climate change work

UN climate change conference (COP31)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 2026 UNFCCC climate change summit in Turkey

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Stepping up global ambition for climate action and justice

A programme of work showing how IIED is supporting the most vulnerable countries to increase global ambition to stay below 1.5°C

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Mobilising money to where it matters

A programme of work helping to initiate a positive shift in the quantity and quality of climate finance reaching the local level to support locally-led solutions that address climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss

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Climate-resilient development

A programme of work showing how IIED is supporting governments, civil society and communities to achieve climate-resilient development outcomes for the most vulnerable people

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