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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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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.

Where to find IIED and partners at COP31: event listing

Event on 09 November 2026

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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

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

Mohsen Gul and Tom Mitchell
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

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

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

Nicola Sorsby and Karen Wong Pérez
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

20 July 2026

In-depth reading

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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A flooded street with debris and palm trees, showcasing the aftermath of a heavy rainstorm.

First pledges to Loss and Damage Fund at COP28

Press release, 30 November 2023

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Interview: New scorecards expose what’s going wrong in the climate finance delivery chain – and pilot how to fix it

Article, 30 November 2023

Where to find IIED and partners at COP28: event listing

Event on 30 November 2023

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COP27 draws to a close

Press release, 19 November 2023

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Climate risk assessment – Malawi

Publication, 20 April 2018

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Smallholder farmers: unsung giants of climate and nature investment

Insight, 16 November 2023

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Tackling climate change loss and damage by strengthening anticipatory risk response under social protection programmes

Active Project

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Uganda readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Senegal readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Malawi readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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India readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Ghana readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Ethiopia readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Bangladesh readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

Publication, 28 October 2023

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Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience — ASPIRE

Publication, 29 October 2023

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Delivering anticipatory social protection: country readiness assessment

Publication, 29 October 2023

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Championing continuity for graduating LDCs: ensuring a smooth transition for climate adaptation

Publication, 14 November 2023

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Ambition to achieve gender balance at international climate negotiations must be matched with finance

Insight, 10 October 2023

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Sinking islands, rising debts: urgent need for new financial compact for Small Island Developing States

Publication, 13 September 2023

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Gender, climate finance and inclusive low-carbon transitions

Publication, 13 September 2023

Aerial view of destroyed housing and infrastructure.

Resilient prosperity in SIDS: forging a new finance compact

Insight, 29 August 2023

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Pre-COP28 talks 'a real chance to protect the most vulnerable'

Press release, 17 August 2023

People walking up a green hill.

Learning from adaptation financing that is working for LDCs and SIDS

Insight, 20 July 2023

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Climate-vulnerable indebted countries paying billions to rich polluters

Press release, 10 July 2023

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Least developed countries (LDCs)

Locally led adaptation

Climate change adaptation

Loss and damage

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