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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about IIED’s work to ensure climate finance reaches those who need it most by advocating for decentralised funding, building local capacity to access and manage resources, and highlighting the importance of community-led solutions in addressing climate change.

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Resilience finance summit builds momentum for investment action

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Audience members listening to the opening plenary speeches of the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026.

Spurring finance for climate resilience

13 October 2026

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Five steps to accelerate finance for climate resilience

Mohsen Gul and Tom Mitchell
09 September 2026

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Learning from decentralised climate finance in Senegal

January 2025 - May 2027

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No escaping the heat: health and economic impacts of heat stress on informal workers in urban Bangladesh

12 August 2026

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Why nature finance and gender data are central to achieving the world’s biodiversity goals

Nicola Sorsby and Karen Wong Pérez
06 August 2026

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Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

20 July 2026

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Too hot to work, too poor to rest

20 July 2026

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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

Delivering climate finance at the local level

A series of case studies showing solutions for getting climate finance to local communities

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Participants taking a selfie in-between sessions.

Resilience finance summit builds momentum for investment action

Impact story, 13 October 2026

Audience members listening to the opening plenary speeches of the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026.

Spurring finance for climate resilience

Article, 13 October 2026

Amid an arid landscape with mountains in the background, several people are pictured holding bundles of branches.

Five steps to accelerate finance for climate resilience

Insight, 09 September 2026

A grup of men and women extract seeds from fruit and lay out the seeds on blankets on the ground.

Learning from decentralised climate finance in Senegal

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No escaping the heat: health and economic impacts of heat stress on informal workers in urban Bangladesh

Publication, 12 August 2026

Women farmers in a field, collecting and tending to crops.

Why nature finance and gender data are central to achieving the world’s biodiversity goals

Insight, 06 August 2026

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

Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

Press release, 20 July 2026

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Too hot to work, too poor to rest: health and economic impacts of heat stress on informal workers in urban India

Publication, 20 July 2026

Speakers, including chief executive officer of the COP32 presidency secretariat office and member of the government of Ethiopia Negusu Aklilu, IIED executive director Tom Mitchell, the Rt Hon. Baroness Chapman of Darlington and chief executive officer of British International Investment Leslie Maasdorp, at the opening plenary of the 2026 summi

Brutal heatwave spurs leaders to action at climate resilience finance summit

News, 26 June 2026

IIED executive director Tom Mitchell speaking during the opening plenary session of the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026

Preparing for extreme weather shocks a huge opportunity, and the right thing to do

Press release, 25 June 2026

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The Global South House at COP30: lessons, barriers and the path forward

Publication, 22 June 2026

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Financing social and environmental justice in the global South

Publication, 22 June 2026

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IIED at London Climate Action Week 2026

Event on 20 June 2026

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

Insight, 03 June 2026

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Complementarity and coherence among climate funds: a tool for improved access in LDCs and SIDS?

Publication, 02 July 2026

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Measuring what matters: climate funds’ results and monitoring systems

Publication, 18 June 2026

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Unlocking urban climate finance: barriers and progress in African cities

Publication, 18 May 2026

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Country Platforms Action Toolkit

Publication, 17 April 2026

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ASPIRE locally led monitoring: tracking household resilience trajectories using the RISE resilience ladder

Publication, 17 June 2026

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Registration opens for second climate resilience finance summit

News, 13 April 2026

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Multilateral climate funds for climate adaptation

Article, 07 April 2026

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Scaling adaptation finance: what works in LDCs and SIDS

Event on 23 April 2026

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The promise of direct access to climate finance: evidence and lessons from LDCs and SIDS

Publication, 07 May 2026

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What to watch for across the multilateral climate funds landscape: key moments and leverage points

Insight, 25 March 2026

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