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UN recognises IIED climate-change partner as Champion of the Earth
Atiq Rahman, head of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, wins UNEP award for “extraordinary leadership”

SEED Awards 2008
Do you have an entrepreneurial or innovative idea that is locally-driven and has great potential to contribute to sustainable development in developing countries? 

IIED and the New Economics Foundation fellowship programme on Greening Economics
Bringing new thinking to environment and development

Communities call for access to genetic diversity to combat poverty and climate change
Governments urged to agree international rules that would give indigenous communities access to genetic resources

EU shift on biofuels policy could be good news for South
New policy for biofuels should consider costs and benefits to poorer producers and consumers

Kenyan slum dwellers vow to rebuild shattered communities and restore peace
Communities seek support for local peace initiatives and plans to rebuild homes and livelihoods destroyed in recent violence

Climate-change media alliance tackles information vacuum
A unique partnership of international organisations and journalists boosts media coverage of climate change in developing nations

Victory for the vulnerable on climate-change adaptation fund
Years of tense climate-change talks ended last night with victory for the most vulnerable countries, which won a key decision at the UN conference in Bali

IIED's Annual Report for 2006-7
Illustrates the far-reaching work we do to support more sustainable patterns of global development, and highlights important achievements over the last year

African and Asian experts in India to promote social justice in forestry
Experts from 11 countries will meet to discuss how to make the sector work for the poor.

Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to support urban poor
Slum/Shack Dwellers International will use the funds to help the urban poor to improve their housing, water and sanitation

Climate change will push Asia into reverse warns report
The biggest study yet from a unique coalition of major poverty and environment groups shows scale of climate impacts in the region.

Quick fixes could cut aviation's role in climate change, says study
Report shows ways to eliminate needless emissions and enable consumers to make informed choices about how to travel.

What could a Global Forest Partnership look like?
The World Bank is proposing a new Global Forest Partnership to bring together many organisations to accelerate progress in forest management

Adaptation to climate change faces major constraints in urban areas
Report warns that governments and international agencies to take adaptation in urban areas much more seriously

Multi-million dollar initiative to tackle world water crisis
The Global Water Initiative will work in 13 countries to improve poor people's access to clean water.

UN decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
Peruvian farmers are planting the world’s largest collection of potato varieties to showcase conservation that benefits local communities.

Big changes in distribution of world's urban population
IIED's Human Settlements Group has published the 2007 edition of its analysis of urban change

Sustainable tourism project in Srepok Wilderness, Cambodia
New project updates and publications available for download

Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings
A new series of free to download briefings discuss the sustainable development issues raised by legal arrangements for the protection of foreign investment

Who wants fair trade timber?
An international workshop (Edinburgh, 1 October 2007) examined evidence of demand for new mechanisms to distinguish and thereby reward 'community' forest products in the market

Adapting Cities to Climate Change
To date, discussions of how to address climate change have focused far more on mitigation than adaptation (coping with the storms, floods, sea-level rise and other impacts that climate change will bring)

Nobel Peace Prize presses urgency of climate action
The 2007 prize has been awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore.

Climate solutions need the local touch
As governments ponder how to protect communities from the impacts of climate change, they should think small, argues Camilla Toulmin in this article by the BBC

Environmental law charity flies into new era
FIELD has appointed a new director to lead its efforts to ensure that vulnerable nations can use international law to achieve environmental justice

Progress on forest governance
The Forest Governance Learning Group has published a new report on activities in 10 African and Asian nations

Climate, carbon, conservation and communities
IIED and WWF-UK on how forest management can reduce climate change, protect wild species and improve livelihoods in developing countries

Conservation, development, both or neither?
A new approach to managing water resources could bring social and environmental benefits in developing countries

Small forest enterprises are big!
Forestry governance needs a major rethink to favour small-scale enterprises, say researchers

Ladies of the lake: fundraising swim across Lake Geneva
Friends of the late Richard Sandbrook, former IIED director, raise funds for a memorial studentship

Peru's ancient Inca capital says no to GM-potato
A major region of Peru has banned GM varieties of a crop that has grown there for thousands of years and which helped to fuel the ancient Inca empire

India's urban poor take to the streets in protest
Residents of Asia's biggest slum are demanding the right to be involved in planning their settlement's future

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