UN Climate Action Summit 2019

The 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit, convened by the UN Secretary-General (UNSG), took place on 23 September 2019 in New York, alongside a host of other activities and events. This collection brings together those events and the related climate change work of IIED, its researchers and partners.

The UN Climate Action Summit

Real climate ambition means switching to 'business unusual'

Clare Shakya
04 October 2019

Crops float on water

Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change

Xiaoting Hou Jones and Hannah Reid
26 September 2019

A man looking up at a partially constructed roof

Bearing the climate burden – Bangladesh families are paying too much

Paul Steele and Saleemul Huq
20 September 2019

Mangrove roots

Tools for ecosystem-based adaptation: new navigator now available

18 September 2019

Protesters march and carry climate-related placards

IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit

Event on 23 September 2019

A woman scoops water in a dry riverbed

Want to save the planet? Put the poorest in the driver's seat

Clare Shakya
11 September 2019

A man bends over to tend his crops in a field

Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis

Teresa Corcoran
02 September 2019

Four women farmers bend over to work their land

Climate justice and the IPCC special report on land

Andrew Norton
13 August 2019

A group of people huddle in deep, urgent discussion

Taking stock: how the LDCs became masters in climate activism and optimism

Blog, 29 July 2019