Sounding the alarm: new IPCC report reinforces urgency for G20 to take stronger climate action
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came at a critical moment: with two months to go to the COP26 summit in Glasgow, extreme weather events are wreaking havoc globally including across Europe, China, India, Siberia and the United States.
The science in the IPCC report paints a clearer picture than ever before – the climate crisis is here, and we must act fast. With COP26 looming, IIED director Andrew Norton calls on G20 leaders to listen to the report’s findings and step up their climate action.
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Spotlight: Connecting climate change and nature
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Blog by Ebony Holland
Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries
As international climate and biodiversity talks continue and conservation experts gather this week at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Ebony Holland shares recent research outlining how nature-based solutions are being placed front and centre by least developed countries.
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Online event series
Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and COVID-19
In the run up to the UN Food Systems Summit, the International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) is organising a webinar series to bring the voices and knowledge of Indigenous farmers around the world into the debate on resilient food systems. The webinars on 7 and 14 September will hear Indigenous Peoples discuss resilient food systems in these two events live-streamed direct from communities in Perú, Kenya, India and China.
Register to attend the webinars.
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Guest blog by Gabriela Flores
Building wider support for ecosystem-based adaptation: how can communications help?
Evidence shows that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) can help increase people's resilience and ability to adapt to climate change. However, policymakers have not adopted this approach as widely as they could. Following an event at CBA15, Gabriela Flores outlines three ways communications could help increase EbA uptake.
Read the guest blog.
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COMING SOON: Make Change Happen podcast
Climate resilience in forest and farm landscapes
Later this month, IIED’s Make Change Happen podcast will explore locally vital and globally important climate resilience work by forest and farm producer organisations across Asia and Africa. Elizabeth Nsimadala of the Pan-African Farmers Organization (PAFO) talks achievements and challenges with IIED’s Duncan Macqueen and Clare Shakya.
Catch up on the previous podcast episodes.
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Climate change news and blogs
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Blog by Florence Crick
Framework guides local governments towards people-led climate-resilient development
IIED’s framework supports local governments to shift away from ‘development as usual’ − to development planning that places climate at its heart, champions bottom-up community participation and values local knowledge.
Read the recent blog.
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News
New briefing supports greater ambition for countries’ NDCs
New or updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) have been submitted by 110 out of 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement by the recent deadline. For those Parties that remain, IIED has unpacked the Paris Agreement guidance to show – taken together – they can enhance climate ambition in NDCs.
Find out more.
Download the briefing.
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Guest blog by Artwell Kadungure and Alice Sverdlik
Making strides to improve health and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s cities
Guest blogger Artwell Kadungure and IIED's Alice Sverdlik report on how real progress is being made to improve the lives and livelihoods of informal workers as a result of collaboration with key policymakers.
Read their blog now.
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Blog by Fernanda Alcobé
Reviewing climate action: the hidden key for greater ambition
As countries prepare to negotiate the last components of the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, Fernanda Alcobé looks at the review process, explores some significant challenges ahead and provides recommendations for designing a more efficient and inclusive system.
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Blog by Emilie Beauchamp
Five key questions for making the Global Goal on Adaptation work for local people and places
Emilie Beauchamp discusses how parties to the Paris Agreement could agree on a roadmap towards a Global Goal on Adaptation that will work for the whole of society.
Read her recent blog.
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Blog by Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner
Rethinking urban climate resilience: time for a reset?
Aditya Bahadur and guest blogger Thomas Tanner discuss their new book which explores the changing nature of climate risk in towns and cities and explains why existing approaches for tackling this risk need a shake-up.
Read the guest blog.
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Blog by Ritu Bharadwaj
Policymakers take note: climate displacement is driving millions into slavery
Many factors force people into slavery; but climate change as a driver is largely ignored in policy and planning.
Read the blog by Ritu Bharadwaj.
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Climate change publications
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Briefing
Productive uses of energy for resilient livelihoods in LDCs
Productive use(s) of energy (PUE), especially when powered by renewables, can support more sustainable and resilient livelihoods in Least Developed Countries, by bringing immediate opportunities to community services and value chains in rural areas. Taking an integrated approach means providing support such as financing, skills development, business inputs and market linkages; exploiting near-term opportunities in well-established value chains; and dismantling structural issues that prevent equitable uptake of PUE in rural areas.
Download the new briefing.
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Issue paper, 48 pages
Follow the money: tracking Least Developed Countries’ adaptation finance to the local level
There is growing recognition that local organisations, people and communities need to lead or be meaningfully involved in the response to the climate, biodiversity and poverty crisis. Primary adaptation finance flowing to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is much lower than contributors report. Over 5 years, $5.9billion of climate adaptation finance was invested in LDCs projects where their main aim was adaptation – equating to less than 3% of the LDCs' annual needs between 2020–2030. This new research tracks and sets out the challenges of contributor reported adaptation finance and whether it is reaching the local level in LDCs.
Read the report.
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Case study
Towards a low-carbon climate-resilient future: developing The Gambia’s 2050 Climate Vision
In this case study, we explore lessons from the process undertaken by The Gambia to develop its 2050 Climate Vision, which may aid other countries on their journey. We look at how the country is preparing to elaborate a 'long-term low greenhouse gas development strategy' in response to the Paris Agreement’s invitation.
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Issue paper, 28 pages
Redesigning debt: lessons from HIPC for COVID, climate and nature
Calls for additional debt relief are getting louder. To meet the multiple challenges of debt, climate change and biodiversity loss, a new model is needed. Focusing on lessons from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, established 25 years ago by the World Bank and IMF, this paper proposes a new international debt relief initiative, which prioritises investment in climate and nature, to get developing countries’ economies back on track post-pandemic.
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