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COP29 unpacked: 8 critical topics driving the climate agenda in Baku
Here we present a breakdown of eight issues expected to play a large role in COP29 discussions, with articles related to each topic to help you understand more about the current playing field and the possible directions of each discussion.
“Must-haves” for adaptation finance in the New Collective Quantified Goal
This brief outlines the “must-haves” for the NCQG: what the goal must include to ensure funding meets the objectives of sufficient, effective and equitable climate adaptation.
Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD): policy gaps and recommendations
This policy brief analyses the existing policy gaps concerning non-economic loss and damage and proposes recommendations for improvements.
Regional Climate Data Conference: Experts Unite to Ensure Data Accessibility through Collaborative Efforts
A summary of the Regional Climate Data Conference, in Bangladesh. The conference was to initiate a discussion on opportunities and barriers of accessing climate data and climate risk information, and ways of ensuring climate data availability and accessibility and to explore collaborations in the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region.
Operationalizing Finance for Loss and Damage: from Principles to Modalities
Explore this report providing information for crucial negotiations and discussions on loss and damage finance by exploring different options for how it can be operationalized.
Climate Ledger Initiative
Watch a video from Climate Ledger Initiative co-founder Nick Beglinger on this international, multi-stakeholder platform at the intersection of climate change and blockchain technology, or more generally distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains
This research assesses the types of supply chain information that are needed to support improvements in sustainability governance.
Webinar: Cities, climate change and corruption – issues, dynamics, strategies
Corruption has the potential to disrupt urban development and responses to climate change. This webinar unpacks the relationship between these issues and discusses possible policy responses.
From Tracking to Action – Promoting Social Accountability in Adaptation Finance
This report looks at emerging evidence of civil society engagement and identifies steps that providers of finance, governments, and CSOs can undertake to close the adaptation accountability gap.
Ten principles to help assess funding for local climate adaptation
This briefing paper summarises a study by IIED analysing (a) how much support reaches local people and (b) the quality of this support, as measured against ten principles