Sounding the alarm: new IPCC report reinforces urgency for G20 to take stronger climate action
The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN panel of experts who carry the responsibility of synthesising knowledge and key messages from the most credible sources of climate science − comes at a critical moment: with three 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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Interview with Daniel Kobei
Negotiating a new biodiversity deal that works for Indigenous Peoples
For the recent International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Daniel Kobei, founder and executive director of Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), highlights the challenges the biodiversity and climate crises present for Indigenous communities, and sets out hopes for the upcoming meeting of the working group guiding negotiation of the new global biodiversity framework.
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"Most of the world’s biodiversity lies on Indigenous Peoples’ land and territories − any discussions on conserving biodiversity and protecting land rights must recognise and respect their rights."
– Daniel Kobei
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News
IIED joins forces with the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership
With the aim of making one billion people safer from disaster by 2025, IIED has joined the global membership of the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP), a worldwide network of climate, humanitarian and development communities.
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Guest blog by Million Belay
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
In the second blog in our ‘food year’ series, guest blogger Million Belay explains why now is the time to demand a better food system that works for small-scale food producers in Africa – who account for most of the world’s food insecure.
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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.
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Guest blog by Ofelia Bagotlo
We also want greens in our meals: community gardens in the Philippines
One of the founders of the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines, Ofelia Bagotlo, describes how community gardens on vacant city plots are providing vital nutrition for the urban poor.
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Project
Transforming cities, transforming lives
We are developing, testing and disseminating a scalable approach for achieving key shifts in urban development to put cities on a path to achieving climate justice and zero-carbon emissions by 2050. IIED will work closely with local partners and the World Resources Institute, the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), IIED-America Latina and German Development Institute (DIE-GDI) to establish new models of coalition-building and governance through five 'urban labs' in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
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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.
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