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Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?

Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries

An aerial view of Entebbe airport. The airport is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, close to numerous environmentally sensitive wetland areas (Photo: Niranjanoak, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

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Environment or the economy? How Uganda uses natural capital accounts in policymaking

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

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Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)

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Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

Mobilising money to where it matters

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Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

A young Maasai herder sees a future in pastoralism (Photo: gritty.org)

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Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning

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Navigating ocean investments

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Biocredits: incentives for inclusive biodiversity conservation

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Bearing the climate burden: how households in Bangladesh are spending too much

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Situational Analysis Report (Sri Lanka): Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

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Literature Review (Sri Lanka): Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka

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Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka Annual Report

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When investors go green

Blog, Nov 2019

Profit with purpose: the role of business in achieving sustainable development

Feature, Nov 2019

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Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access

News, Nov 2019

Wind power turbines and electricity pylons alongside one another in China

Delivering energy access for all: Make Change Happen podcast episode 2

Podcast, Nov 2019

Close-up image of cotton growing

Q&A: Ready for impact?

Interview, Nov 2019

Conversation between a woman with a notebook and a man, with trees in the background

The Nobel and poverty alleviation: "A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure"

Blog, Oct 2019

Navigating ocean investments

Insight, Oct 2019

Delivering sustainable fisheries through fiscal incentives

Project, Jul 2019

Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

Blog, Apr 2019

Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?

Blog, Mar 2019

Fishing boats in Viet Nam

Out of sight, out of mind? Why the high seas matter to vulnerable coastal communities

Article, Mar 2019

Seaweed farmers in Indonesia (Photo: Hiswaty Hafid/USAid, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Focusing the blue economy future on small-scale fisheries

Blog, Feb 2019