Large-scale debt swaps can help fight debt, climate change and nature loss together
IIED today released a new report, 'Tackling the triple crisis: Using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19'. Large-scale debt swaps can help the millions of people being pushed into poverty and address the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss. They are an opportunity for a post-COVID-19 recovery that will help reduce poverty and be green.
Read the report now, and find out more at a webinar tomorrow, 9 September: COVID-19, debt relief, and the climate and biodiversity crises.
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Climate change news and blogs
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Make Change Happen podcast episode 7
Shared vulnerabilities? Connecting climate and health in cities
Cities and towns are hugely impacted by both climate change and public health crises. This combined threat weighs heaviest on the poorest urban communities. Health and climate specialists are working hard to reduce urban risk and increase resilience, but what has COVID-19 shown us about how these experts could learn from each other, and how they could work better with knowledgeable local actors?
This podcast episode explores how cross-sector learning and collaboration may be one key to creating more resilient and equitable cities. Listen now.
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Guest blog by Ineza Umuhoza Grace
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
"As a young climate change activist, I want to see innovative approaches that will enable sustainable development. We need to challenge current paradigms whereby foreign actors pre-determine areas of intervention for building climate resilience in my country, with minimal/controlled participation by the people of Rwanda."
Read the blog from Ineza Umuhoza Grace, founder and CEO of The Green Fighter.
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Blog by Sejal Patel
The Green Climate Fund: time to shift focus to locally led adaptation
The board of the Green Climate Fund met recently to review proposals for the next round of funding. It needs to consider how it can better channel funds directly to countries – helping build stronger national and local accredited entities that can support adaptation initiatives led by local actors.
Read the blog.
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Blog by Fernanda Alcobé
LDCs and the Paris Agreement: getting to grips with tougher climate reporting
Implementing the Paris Agreement brings new reporting challenges for the least developed countries (LDCs). A recent IIED webinar explored ways forward for these countries to meet the treaty’s stringent transparency requirements.
Find out more in the recent blog.
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Climate change publications
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Issue paper, 29 pages
What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the Least Developed Countries
The LDCs, from the frontlines of climate impacts, are pioneering large-scale and innovative adaptation responses. This issue paper draws from experiences in the international dialogues and of LDC national practice to explore how the adaptation narrative is developing at both levels. It examines where they are aligned, and where they clash, in influencing adaptation scope and delivery.
Download the issue paper.
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Briefing paper
The climate crisis: four ways evaluations can strengthen policymaking
Applying evaluation approaches throughout policy cycles, from planning to implementation, can achieve systematic, integrated responses to climate policy; policies capable of considering different scenarios and absorbing complex evidence. Evaluations can also promote accountability and learning to identify socially just solutions and transformational approaches to addressing climate change. This briefing outlines four key ways in which evaluations can accelerate progress towards effective climate policy.
Download the briefing.
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Briefing paper
Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
This policy briefing discusses how community-led approaches such as Indigenous biocultural heritage territories (BCHTs) are vital to achieving both Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and can help avoid negative social impacts often associated with state-run protected areas.
Download the briefing.
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Wanted: latest advertised roles at IIED
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Apply now
IIED jobs
We are advertising for a research consultant in our climate change research group, a French-speaking monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) officer and a senior coordinator in our human settlements research group.
MEL Officer – French-speaking: apply by 15 September
Research consultant: apply by 18 September
Senior coordinator: apply by 27 September
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