Can COP26 lay firm foundations for an ambitious new climate finance goal?
In 2009, wealthy nations pledged to jointly mobilise US$100 billion of climate finance per year by 2020. This collective fund was designed to support developing nations deal with the effects of climate change and build greener economies. Over a decade on the climate finance goal remains unmet.
With negotiations for the post-2025 climate goal due to commence at COP26, researcher Illari Aragon asks what lessons can be learned from the previous target and explores the priority issues for least developed countries, who will be seeking changes to both the volume and nature of the climate finance they receive. Read the blog.
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Blog by Duncan Macqueen
Escalating local climate resilience finance
A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations.
Read the blog.
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"Climate resilience is not complicated. Rather, it is about finding ways to persist, adapt or transform at individual, group and system level."
– Duncan Macqueen
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IIED at COP26
Where to find IIED at the UNFCCC climate change summit
IIED researchers and partners will be present throughout the COP26 gathering from 1-12 November, focusing on issues such as getting climate finance to the local level and supporting negotiators from the least developed countries. We'll co-host an official side event titled "Recognition, rights, and redistribution for locally led pathways towards just and equitable adaptation and resilience".
We're an organising partner in Development and Climate Days, the Resilience Hub and the Locally Led Adaptation Hub, and will be part of events across the COP26 Blue and Green Zones.
Find out more and register to attend the various events.
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Blog by Matt Wright
How the digital divide threatens the success and legitimacy of the COP26 talks
The digital divide is in danger of stifling the voices of those representing some of the communities likely to be worst affected by the impacts of climate change. Find out more in this recent blog.
The digital divide will be a central theme at an IIED online event on 27 October. Register now for Closing the digital gender gap: lessons from the pandemic.
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Guest blog by Thais Bessa
In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
Gender expert Thais Bessa describes how inclusive technology, a gender-responsive documentation process and shifting gender norms are empowering women in Zambia through secure land rights.
Read the guest blog.
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Guest blog by Olivia Wilson-Holt
Improving community attitudes towards conservation
An IIED-led project in Uganda supported community wildlife scouts and microenterprises to mitigate human-wildlife conflict and improve community attitudes towards conservation, with the overall aim of reducing participation in wildlife crime.
Read the guest blog.
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Blog by Anna Carthy and Simon Addison
Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
Humanitarian actors could be key players in the global climate response, especially through their efforts to address climate-induced loss and damage. But their actions must be pre-emptive and locally-led. Anna Carthy and Simon Addison look at a new funding mechanism that helps humanitarians scale up local efforts and proactively address climate risks.
Read their blog.
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Blog by David Satterthwaite and Sheela Patel
Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
David Satterthwaite and Sheela Patel reflect on the successes, priorities and problems facing urban community organisations during the pandemic – with implications for their future funding and even survival.
Read the blog now.
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IIED briefing
The elusive US$100bn: will COP26 reboot trust and pave the way for a more ambitious finance goal?
In 2009, developed countries pledged an ambitious target for climate finance: “a goal of mobilising jointly US$100 billion dollars a year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries”. But over a decade later, that the goal remains unmet. Collective ambition for $100 billion remains one of the biggest issues to resolve before COP26.This briefing provides a status check on the $100 billion goal — with particular reference to the least developed countries (LDCs) — and summarises the LDC Group’s initial perspectives and priorities for the post-2025 target.
Download the briefing.
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Working paper, 40 pages
Gender sensitive social protection in the face of climate risk: a study in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, India
International donors and policymakers are increasingly interested in strengthening social protection programmes to address gendered climate vulnerabilities, but there is a lack of evidence about how this can be achieved. This paper examines the potential of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to reduce women’s vulnerability to climate risks in India. It provides lessons on priority action areas for integrating gender within the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the programme to better meet women’s needs in the face of climate risk.
Download the working paper.
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Case study, 20 pages
Improving community attitudes towards conservation: learning from efforts to address wildlife crime in Uganda
This case study looks at how park-led, community-based activities in Uganda’s Murchison Falls Conservation Area and surrounding villages have worked to change the way people think about conserving the wildlife that’s on their doorstep. It draws on findings from an evaluation of the ‘Implementing park action plans for community engagement to tackle IWT’ project, which aims to provide insights for future efforts to combat wildlife crime — in Uganda and beyond.
Download the case study.
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Research report, 168 pages
Diversification for climate resilience: thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations
This report is written for representatives of forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) and their technical support partners. It explains why climate resilience matters and what it is. It introduces a climate framework and how to build it – including 30 practical climate-resilience options. It includes new analysis of 10 international climate-resilience case studies that show the extraordinary extent to which FFPOs are pushing ahead with climate-resilience options.
Download the research report, and take a look at the infographic which lists the 30 resilience options outlined in the report.
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Issue paper, 46 pages
Innovative financing for Africa: harnessing debt for climate and nature
Africa is severely impacted by the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss. The continent’s debt now stands at more than 70% of GDP. There is potential to address these crises through ‘general purpose’ debt financing linked to climate and nature key performance indicators (KPIs).
For severely indebted African countries this could be through debt-for-climate-and-nature conversion or swaps. For less debt distressed countries with good market access, the best instrument would be general-purpose performance bonds for climate and nature.
Download the issue paper. / Financement innovant pour l'Afrique: exploiter la dette en faveur du climat et de la nature.
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