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Page, 19 March 2024
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Article, 07 June 2017
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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2024
… FFPOs brought about 64 national-level changes in policy in 2024 (up by 25% over 2023). FFF has cumulatively supported 53 apex FFPOs to … compared with 2023. These efforts have benefited 289,000 people (up by 38% compared with 2023). More than 78,000 people received improved …
Publication, 31 March 2025
Local farmers harvesting tea leaves. They are wearing baskets for collecting the leaves on their backs.
Water stewardship – the critical need to account for water use and enable access for all
… Malawi was one of the first governments to sign up to the 2021 Glasgow Declaration for Fair Water Footprints and commit … Association of Malawi is working with smaller tea communities to set up programmes to encourage environmental protection. …
Article, 19 March 2025
G20 must massively scale up debt offer to help low-income countries tackle climate crisis, nature and COVID-19
… Venice this weekend should create a new initiative to massively scale up debt swaps and offer new bonds for climate change programmes in lower … G7 fell short on these issues, and the G20 has the chance to make it up. IIED director Andrew Norton said: “The G20 needs to seize this … to rapidly develop a new debt reduction initiative so we don’t end up with a lost decade in the fight for both poverty reduction and …
News, 07 July 2021
A herd of cattle standing on top of a dry grass field with smoky chimneys in the background
Climate action is being held back by ‘hidden handbrakes’
… are recent signs the transition to renewable energy is  speeding up , the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on …
Insight, 18 May 2023
A group of men and women pose for a photograph in a line, with the words 'Resilience Hub' behind them.
Champions group renews commitment to climate adaptation needs
… for climate adaptation programmes.  In addition, Finland has signed up to the principles of locally led adaptation , to help ensure that …
News, 13 November 2022
Group of four women carrying big basins on the way to get clean water. They are wearing colorful clothing.
Making water use fair for everybody
… It is thanks to this concept that we now know that it can take up to 83,000 litres of water  to manufacture a car, or 10,800 litres for … gender-based violence. In many agricultural communities, women make up the majority of smallholder farmers who are very vulnerable to … initiative – CDP, Chatham House, IIED and Water Witness – have signed up to a set of GESI principles that will guide all their activities. …
Insight, 20 March 2025
Surveys of the priorities of the private sector often ignore vital informal economies, such as this one in Hanoi (Photo: Bill Vorley/IIED)
Shaking up the private sector
… committed to renewable power is great, but the companies who signed up are not from the biggest greenhouse gas emitting sectors.   They are … Coalition is making its commitment contingent on governments putting up matching funding. That's to say that the private investors want tax payers to reduce the investment risk by putting up collateral.   There may be tax payers who would rather see investors …
Insight, 22 January 2016
Landscape with a mine and blue sky.
Can the net-zero transition offer a new dawn for Africa’s industrialisation?
… agreement.  This will call for different levels of cooperation to set up and run the plant – from establishing national level laws and policies, allocating land, setting up special economic zones, establishing access to a stable power source, …
Insight, 16 May 2024