governance

This report outlines delivery mechanisms for ensuring that at least 70% of climate finance reaches local communities in Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

The United Nations biodiversity conference (COP16) recently reconvened in Rome to resume global negotiations on filling the biodiversity funding gap and conserving nature worldwide. This piece outlines key decisions, compromises and challenges that emerged from the talks, and discuss the way forward for biodiversity action.

In February 2025, the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Hub launched. It is a landmark initiative to devise strategies to help the UK make changes needed to better adapt to the impacts of climate change. The launch event itself sparked discussion about key issues shaping the UK adaptation agenda, and solicited ideas about the priorities that should drive the work ahead. Here, partners in the Hub program offer five takeaways.

Explore current practices, challenges, and solutions for coastal cities adapting to sea level rise in West Africa.

Explore recommendations and proposals on socio-environmental monitoring in the Andes made by the research community in this policy brief.

This report introduces an assessment framework to evaluate how water adaptation projects align with the LLA principles, supplemented with a principle on Nature-based Solutions. The framework is then applied to examine six water adaptation case studies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Explore solutions on the A@A Solutions Portal that have been implemented either across borders or in multiple countries with shared borders in this Adaptation at Altitude brief.

How are global approaches on monitoring and evaluation to climate change adaptation being localized in the design and implementation of public policies and territorial strategies for adaptation in the Andes? Learn more in this study.

What can three mountain ranges with different approaches to mountain governance and sustainable development learn from one another? Explore the key outcomes of study visits between the Andes, Alps and Carpathians.