Harnessing Nationally Determined Contributions to tackle loss and damage in Least Developed Countries - IIED

Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are facing increasingly devastating impacts of climate change that are leading to loss and damage (L&D). As LDCs revise their climate action plans known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), they should provide concrete evidence about L&D.

LDC Insight #1: COVID-19 recovery and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Why LDCs can't just "build back better" - Taffere Tesfachew and Federica Irene Falomi

(...) However, if the SDGs are to be achieved globally by 2030 - in line with the principle of “leaving no one behind” - they must be achieved everywhere.

Addressing loss and damage: practical insights for tackling multidimensional risks in LDCs and SIDS - IIED

This paper presents a detailed overview of the nature of loss and damage risks affecting low-income countries, marginalised groups and people living in poverty in the global South, and how they might be addressed. Based upon a structured review of existing literature, and a series of deliberative

The expanding threat to food security in least developed countries, Brendan Vickers, Salamat Ali and Neil Balchin for OECD Development Matters

The number of severely food insecure people across the world is estimated to have doubled in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic to 276 million. This number is expected to reach 323 million in 2022 due to the war in Ukraine.

Practical lessons on implementing business unusual (IIED responding to LDCs’ call for a move away from business-as-usual climate action), Sarah McIvor

Having recognised that business-as-usual climate responses were not fit for purpose in their countries, IIED’s longstanding partner, the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, launched the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience (LIFE-AR) in 2018.

Incremental progress but limited ambition: COP26 delivers mixed results for LDCs - Anna Schulz, Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Eva Peace Mukayiranga for IIED

Following a two-year hiatus in negotiations due to the pandemic and the failure of the preceding Madrid talks to deliver enough political impetus, trust in the entire UN-led process on climate action hung in the balance as delegates arrived in Glasgow for COP26, particularly for climate vulnerable c

South-South Cooperation in Advancing Sustainable Development and Achieving the Transformative Recovery of the Least Developed Countries

This report reviews the role of South-South cooperation in the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action (IPoA) for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020, a 10-year policy agenda to address the challenges faced by the least developed countries (LDCs), to mitigate risks and

Three thoughts on the graduating Commonwealth LDCs - Debapriya Bhattacharya for OECD Development Matters

"The international development community would be well advised to extend group-related and country-specific support to graduating LDCs to prevent these countries from sliding back.

Moving out of mainstream ISMs for LDCs - Daniel Gay for Trade Insight/SAWTEE

pp. 20-23, Vol. 17, No. 3-4 2021 With the current level of international support, countries on the global periphery will always struggle to develop in a way that meets human and ecological needs unless active measures are taken to overcome these problems.