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Conference of the Parties (COP) 21

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Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?

Insight, 21 October 2015

The opening of the UN climate change talks in Bonn in June. The negotiators meet in Bonn again this week (Photo: UNClimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate negotiations: the last stop before Paris

Insight, 19 October 2015

US President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2014. Bilateral meetings are a key part of climate diplomacy (Photo: US Embassy, The Hague, Creative Commmons, via Flickr)

Climate diplomacy: a beginner's guide

Insight, 13 October 2015

Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty

Insight, 30 September 2015

Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030

Insight, 10 September 2015

The opening session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) begins in Bonn, Germany, on 31 August, 2015 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The tough journey on the road to Paris: addressing the needs of the most vulnerable

Insight, 02 September 2015

Tea pickers in Kenya's Mount Kenya region; smallholder folders in Least Developed Countries would be adversely affected by climate change (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation

Insight, 01 September 2015

A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum

Insight, 28 August 2015

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of Bangladesh won the Earth Care Award 2012 for spearheading the Least Developed Countries Fund project 'Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation in Bangladesh' (Photo: UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism)

Making the climate fund fit for purpose

Insight, 27 August 2015

Strategy and Learning Group director Tom Bigg gives an overview of the SDGs (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: Tom Bigg

News, 21 August 2015

Citizens' protests against climate change action, such as this march in New York in 2014, have moved from the streets to the courts (Photo: South Bend Voice, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Using the power of judiciary to protect people from climate change

Insight, 24 July 2015

The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why universality is a taxing agenda…

Insight, 20 July 2015

IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)

The things that make me proud

Insight, 22 June 2015

Pope Francis is providing global leadership in the battle to take action on climate change (Photo: Raffaele Esposito, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

A papal message reaching out to everyone

Insight, 18 June 2015

An Ethiopian farmer arrives for a field day on climate change adaptation. Ethiopia is the first LDC to submit its intended Nationally Determined Contribution in preparation of the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC (Photo: ILRI/ZerihunSewunet, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Next steps for climate negotiations on the road to Paris

Insight, 17 June 2015

2015 is a critical year for sustainable development: IIED is tracking the route to Paris and COP21 in December (Image: IIED)

Walking along the road to Paris

Insight, 15 June 2015

International climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are preparing the text for a global climate deal to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)

A 1.5 degree goal could save us from ourselves

Insight, 10 June 2015

Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)

Cameron can assure a lasting legacy

Insight, 07 June 2015

Tidal damage on the small island nation of Kiribati. Small island developing nations, especially the atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Jodie Gatfield, AusAID)

Paris Agreement must stand on three pillars

Insight, 01 June 2015

Ruth Nguli looks at her crop of drought-tolerant beans in Makueni County, Kenya. Developing and sharing climate-smart farming techniques can help communities adapt to climate changes (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How do we measure adaptation?

Insight, 11 March 2015

A group meeting on climate change on boat run by the organisation Shidhulai in Natore, Bangladesh (Photo: Tony Stonehouse/IIED)

Developing nations strengthen ability to demonstrate effective climate change adaptation

News, 27 February 2015

A night view of the 193 flags of the UN Member States outside the UN Office in Geneva (Photo: United Nations Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

On the road to Paris: departing Geneva with expectations high

Insight, 16 February 2015

The rich agro-biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas (Photo: Nawraj Gurung)

Unmissable opportunity to build food security and reduce GHGs at Paris COP

News, 12 February 2015

A Bangladeshi fisherman sleeps under a tree, one of thousands planted by the government in an attempt to slow tidal erosion and shield against winds as the country. As countries take such measures to tackle climate change, negotiators prepare for the road to Paris and COP21 (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)

Climate negotiations on the road to Paris: the Geneva stop

Insight, 06 February 2015

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