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Bhutan has committed to remain carbon neutral, mainly thanks to its high forest carbon sequestration capacity. Some people say that trees in Bhutan have legal rights, referring to the constitutional mandate for 60% of our land area to remain forested for all time. (Adam Brill, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Negotiating transparency for the Paris deal: next stop, Bangkok
… arrangements which will be replaced with this enhanced system after 2020. The foundations of the ETF have been developed over more than 20 …
Insight, 28 August 2018
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… on the editorial (PDF) in Environment and Urbanization Vol. 32, No1 (2020) and on John F C Turner’s 1976 book 'Housing by People: Towards …
Insight, 02 October 2020
View of a road cutting through a forest
Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?
… If we are to “ bend the curve of biodiversity loss ” with the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we need to understand the underlying …
Insight, 21 May 2019
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… into policy dialogues leading up to the crunch COP in Glasgow. 2020 is set to be an intense year. Five years on from signing of the …
Insight, 28 January 2020
A poster at COP25
COP25: the morning after
… order to deliver success at the climate summit in Glasgow in November 2020. The event was  live streamed on IIED's Facebook site . …
Insight, 13 January 2020
Extinction Rebellion climate protesters march through London behind a big green banner proclaiming 'Rebel for life'
The Paris Agreement always needed Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
… climate crisis at the next round of submissions for national plans in 2020. The changes we need to make now to secure a hopeful future for …
Insight, 24 April 2019
Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
… on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties at the end of 2020. …
Insight, 27 March 2019
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa opens COP22 (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: Key decisions needed at COP22
… initially expected that the Paris Agreement would be implemented from 2020 and this was the predominant expectation even as it was being … a second commitment period for emission reductions that runs until 2020.  How are these decisions made? SB: During the two weeks of …
Article, 11 November 2016
Diagram showing change at different scales (Image: Stefano D'Errico/IIED)
Monitoring, evaluation and learning capacity development
… supports the implementation of the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016 – 2020 launched by Evalpartners in Kathmandu in November 2015. …
Project, 01 March 2017
A woman in a yellow sari and wearing a facemask is standing in a field of crops. She is putting the plants into a bag tied around her waist.
Resilience through flexibility – the story of peri-urban agricultural workers in India
… the farm to prepare the soil for sowing (Photo: UHRC ) During the 2020 lockdown, Amruta worked in the fields picking coriander. The wheat …
Article, 06 June 2022