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A worker installs a water pipe observed by two women.
Key nature fund failing to get money to frontline communities
… closest to the biodiversity crisis, according to new analysis by IIED. The two-year study of the multi-billion-dollar Global Environment Facility (GEF) also highlights how funding is often failing to support local priorities. And it raises concerns about the transparency of funding information. The research set out to …
News, 19 May 2025
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Driving impact at the G20: lessons from IIED's engagement with philanthropies
… group 9 on philanthropy and sustainable development  is co-chaired by IIED alongside global philanthropy network WINGS and Brazilian … Philanthropy: a diverse sector going beyond funding The C20’s general recommendations (PDF)  presented to the G20 Sherpas  earlier in … within the philanthropic sector to be part of these efforts to bring about systemic change and advance equity, justice and sustainability in …
Insight, 24 July 2024
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IIED online
… trustees reports and regular impact stories , and provide information about our  finances and funding  and corporate policies to ensure that … and innovation In building our main website and our sub-sites, IIED is committed to achieving good practice in web development, from … remain active. Newsletters Receive regular email updates on our general work, food systems, nature and biodiversity, and more direct to …
Page, 27 July 2022
Woman standing in water, fishing using a big netted basket.
Reflections on UNOC3 and strengthening coastal stewardship
… This was highlighted by Editrudith Lukanga, founding secretary general of the African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network, who … director of Waterkeepers Bahamas, reiterated that "decisions about the ocean must include those who live with it every day", and … fundamental to supporting effective and equitable ocean governance.  IIED is working with partners to strengthen knowledge and capacity for …
Insight, 23 June 2025
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Brazilian philanthropies’ vision to tackle social and climate injustices
… both within philanthropic spaces and in society more generally? IIED and GIFE,  Instituto Pólis , the philanthropy network  WINGS , and … institutional philanthropic organisations have received their funding from extractive and exclusionary economic activities, and may … of tackling social inequalities and the climate crisis.  We learned about initiatives ranging from establishing participatory and …
Insight, 22 May 2025
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… them can be persuaded to follow his lead.  Over the last three years IIED and partners have been working with Chinese investors such as Mr … Chinese investment in Africa's forests. The issue is significant: about 90% of Mozambique’s timber that is exported heads to China – and … and academics. The project also aimed to engage with the Chinese general public.  Mayers said: "We wanted to raise awareness among the …
News, 21 August 2018
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… over the past 12 months. We again clocked up almost 100,000 views on IIED’s YouTube channel over the course of the year. That translates to … in the least developed countries, who narrated the videos themselves about their own stories. The first animation focused on the Solomon … around the world tuned in to hear from Rebeca Grynspan, the secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development …
Insight, 28 December 2021
Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… The video of which we are most proud of in 2019 was not produced for IIED, rather it was created as part of the support we give to the Least … key points of the 2050 vision , such as channelling 70% of climate funding to drive local-level action, holistic climate change planning … sound like the ideal subject for a 95-second video, but our animation about biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) …
Insight, 06 January 2020
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, November 2020
Event, 17 November 2020
Four women smiling at the camera.
UN climate talks: how new negotiators benefit from media training
… Countries (LDCs) to engage effectively in the UNFCCC process, IIED provided a media training ahead of SB58 for the programme’s 12 new … a way the ‘outside’ can easily understand: negotiators love to talk about NAPs , work programmes , 2.1c and the WIM . But the new … it), they were each able to spell out in simple terms what it was all about. We then spent some time carrying out and videoing mock interviews …
Insight, 24 October 2023