Biodiversity

Exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods

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Biodiversity and conservation

UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Private insurance policies launched to protect elephants in Kenya and Sri Lanka

06 October 2022

Podcast

A spur to action – getting money to the local level for nature and climate: Make Change Happen podcast episode 19

21 September 2022

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Event

IIED at Climate Week NYC 2022

Event on 21 September 2022

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Blog

From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development

Andrew Norton
01 September 2022

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Blog

A call to action for people and nature

Olivia Wilson-Holt
25 August 2022

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Event

Debt for climate swaps: innovative financial instruments for public debt management

Event on 31 August 2022

Partner showcase

Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights

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Blog

Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance

Minnie Degawan and Ebony Holland
13 July 2022

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's biodiversity work

Conservation, communities and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking

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Biodiversity and development

A programme of work showing how IIED is working to ensure biodiversity conservation, climate change and economic development are tackled together by the institutions that drive policy, rules, plans, investment and action

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Ecosystem-based adaptation

A programme of work focused on people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable development

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Women champions of biodiversity

A series of blogs and interviews illustrating the role, influence and impact of women working to safeguard the world’s biodiversity

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Publications

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Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

Averting the crises: how a new approach to debt could raise US$400 billion for climate and nature

Wild meat: developing alternatives through good project design

Policy brief: The importance of ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation actions in the Nationally Determined Contributions

Taking adaptation to the ground: a story of accessing climate finance through a Small Grants Facility to support ecosystem-based adaptation

Community conservation wardens training report 2021 - 23rd August to 8th September 2021

Mainstreaming nature in development: A brief guide to political economy analysis for non-specialists, UNEP-WCMC, UK

Improving community attitudes towards conservation: learning from efforts to address wildlife crime in Uganda

Nature-based solutions in action: lessons from the frontline

Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making

Private insurance policies launched to protect elephants in Kenya and Sri Lanka

Press release, 06 October 2022

A spur to action – getting money to the local level for nature and climate: Make Change Happen podcast episode 19

Article, 21 September 2022

IIED at Climate Week NYC 2022

Event on 21 September 2022

From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development

Blog, 01 September 2022

A call to action for people and nature

Blog, 25 August 2022

Debt for climate swaps: innovative financial instruments for public debt management

Event on 31 August 2022

Asociación ANDES: from local potato farmers to global strategies for protecting crop diversity and Indigenous rights

Article

Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance

Blog, 13 July 2022

Conserving wildlife: how insurance can help

News, 07 July 2022

People stand around several women on a busy street who are selling fish in buckets on the floor in front of them.

Preventing future pandemics means taking a considered approach to wildlife trade and 'wet markets'

Blog, 01 July 2022