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Introduction to an inclusive blue economy

IIED’s ‘Inclusive blue economy’ programme aims to support resilient marine and coastal ecosystems and the people who depend on them
27 November 2019ArticleEconomics, Fisheries
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"

Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, for their on-the-ground experiments on how best to alleviate poverty. IIED communications director Liz Carlile welcomes this recognition of the role played by research in changing development economics
23 October 2019 BlogCommunication, Economics
Women gather together to break up the Babacu palm nuts they have collected (Photo: JcPietro, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Delivering climate finance at the local level: the Babacu Fund

This case study looks at how the Babacu Fund is delivering climate finance to landless palm nut collectors in the Brazilian Amazon. The fund is supporting remote communities that conventional development interventions are failing to reach, and is giving these communities the opportunity to prioritise investments that will make the greatest difference to them

1 November 2018ArticleClimate change, Economics

Ethical land-based community carbon

Smallholder and community carbon projects have shown that they can deliver local benefits and promote climate resilience (Grieg-Gran et al., 2005; Milder et al., 2010).

March 2018PublicationSustainable markets, Economics
A stretch of the Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China. The region could be transformed by the Belt and Road Initiative (Photo: Marc van der Chijs, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

China's outward public investment – good news for the environment and tackling poverty?

It's been a busy six months for China's outward public investment. Paul Steele, IIED's chief economist, reviews what's been happening and whether it's good news for the environment and development

24 October 2017 BlogEconomics
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Six steps to local climate finance

Evidence from community-focused initiatives suggests that climate and development funds can deliver local finance by adopting six key structural changes

6 November 2016 BlogClimate change, Economics
Divisional Adaptation Planning Committees (DAPCs) act as community focal points (Photo: Sam Greene/IIED)

Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation

County and local governments in the drylands of Kenya, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania have established local-level climate adaptation funds with technical support from IIED and government and non-government organisations. These funds improve their readiness to access and disburse national and global climate finance, supporting community-prioritised investments to build climate resilience
26 November 2015ProjectClimate change, Drylands and pastoralism, Economics
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum

IIED is co-hosting a regional forum with UNDP in Jakarta, Indonesia, to share learning and experience on making sure climate finance works for sustainable development

28 August 2015 BlogClimate change, Economics
Low-cost solar lanterns enable a boy to study at home in the small village of Shidhulai in the Natore District of northwestern Bangladesh (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)

Universal energy access: combining public and private sector efforts

Donors, governments and businesses need to collaborate more strategically to finance pro-poor energy access. This is a key message from a new IIED discussion paper Sharing the Load
30 September 2014 BlogEconomics, Energy, Sustainable markets
A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)

Government group network on climate change mainstreaming

An international network of government planners is sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning

29 September 2014ProjectClimate change, Economics, Policy and planning

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