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A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… eviction . The economic/employment base of the 100 largest cities in 2020 show large ports/transport hubs, manufacturing industries and being … in the rankings of the world’s 100 largest cities between 2000 and 2020: China had 26 of the 100 largest cities in 2020, including Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chongqing that moved up …
Insight, 16 June 2020
Men with traditional Maasai clothing walk in the savannah
Lessons from East Africa: getting climate and conservation funding to Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Insight, 09 February 2023
A family harvesting potatoes in front of a lake, with a landscape of mountains in the background.
Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
… disappearing. In 2021, world leaders will gather to agree new post-2020 targets to address biodiversity loss in the 15th meeting of the … alternatives to protected areas in order to meet the CBD post-2020 targets as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The … Argumedo and CAWR’s Michel Pimbert, indicate that the CBD’s post-2020 targets should: Acknowledge the link between the loss of both …
News, 23 September 2020
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Challenges for climate diplomacy during a pandemic
… Implementation of the Paris Agreement – adopted in 2015 – began in 2020. Countries started announcing enhanced Nationally Determined … on accelerating action at the Glasgow climate summit in November 2020. An international climate response of this scale requires … and outside the UN climate negotiations. Where we are But by March 2020, the pandemic had upended the way we do climate diplomacy. Travel …
Insight, 25 March 2021
Houses on stilts at the side of water, with trees behind
30x30 – a brave new dawn or a failure to protect people and nature?
… In a landmark judgement on 28 December 2020, five anti-poaching agents from the Salonga National Park in the … endanger people and nature? Yet a plan tabled as part of the post-2020 GBF negotiations to double globally protected areas to 30% by 2030 … be based on a rigorous assessment of how effective the previous 2020 target of protecting  17% of terrestrial areas and 10% of coastal …
Insight, 21 October 2021
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Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
… fast disappearing. In 2021, governments will agree a new set of post-2020 targets for addressing biodiversity loss. To be effective and … vital to achieving both Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) post-2020 targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and can help …
Publication, 01 July 2020
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Pocket Guide to the Paris Agreement
Publication, 01 March 2020
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
Article, 17 December 2021
Thirty per cent increase in debts leaves African countries unable to fight climate change and nature loss
… 33.4% as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI) between 2018 and 2020. The analysis is being released at the start of the European … finance ministers agreed the Debt Service Suspension Initiative in 2020 but this only supported immediate relief on interest payments …
News, 17 February 2022
People posing in front of national flags.
Building political ambition for adaptation at COP28 and beyond
… . But less than $30 billion in adaptation finance was delivered in 2020. It is well known that the goal for channelling $100 billion per year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020 is still not met and there have been severe problems in its …
Insight, 01 December 2023