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Emilie Beauchamp is a senior researcher in IIED's Strategy and Learning group UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab attends the Climate and Development Ministerial Meeting earlier this month. The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021 (Photo: Pippa Fowles/No 10 Downing Street via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A year ago, the Adaptation Committee was one of the first UNFCCC-constituted bodies to harness virtual meetings. Meeting virtually is not easy, yet the committee’s 2019-21 workplan requires it to advance several crucial ou...

10 minute read Ministers from Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, the European Union, Fiji, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, United Arab Emirates, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and heads of the Asian Development Bank, Green Climate Fund, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Europe...

US Should Pledge to Cut Heat-trapping Emissions At Least 50 Percent Below 2005 Levels by 2030 Johnson Banks/COP26 US Should Pledge to Cut Heat-trapping Emissions At Least 50 Percent Below 2005 Levels by 2030 Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director and Lead Economist, Climate & Energy | March 10, 2021, 10:06 am EDT This post is a part of a series on President Biden has brought the US back into the Paris Agreement and has announced a Leaders’ Climate Summit, now set for April 22—Earth Day. The adminis...

COP26 President addresses UN Member States Alok Sharma briefs UN Member States on the road to Glasgow From: Excellencies, Secretary General, friends. It is a real pleasure to speak to you all again to provide this regular update. And as you all know I am now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP26 President Designate, whilst continuing as a full member of the UK Government Cabinet. I hope this tells you how seriously Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the whole of the UK Government are taking our role as incoming COP Presidency. It recognises the stark facts in front of us...

Thorny issues: achieving a fair and equitable Global Goal on Adaptation Format Blog by Emilie Beauchamp and Cecilia da Silva Bernardo and Maria del Pilar Bueno 25 January 2021 @Emi_Beauchamp Emilie Beauchamp is a senior researcher at IIED; Cecilia da Silva Bernardo is director for cooperation of Angola's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment; Maria del Pilar Bueno is a researcher at CONICET The international Climate Adaptation Summit on 25 and 26 January aims to spur worldwide efforts to adapt to climate change. The Paris Agreement established the need for a Global Goal on Adaptation, ...