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Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation
… Peoples - around half a billion people who collectively manage about a quarter of the world’s land. Policymakers can no longer ignore …
Publication, 06 August 2021
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Diversification for climate resilience. Thirty options for forest and farm producer organisations
… of FFPOs argues for them playing a more central role in bringing about the climate resilience that is important to us all. …
Publication, 06 October 2021
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Local organizations: introduction
… Profiles: Gatekeeper series About the Gatekeeper series The role of local organizations is often … is managed. To date, a set of twelve profiles has been published in IIED’s Gatekeeper series . The journal Environment and Urbanization has … the local organizations they profile. Association Andes Casa Pueblo IIED-América Latina ORAP Pastoral Women’s Council The Urban Resource …
Article, 01 April 2010
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Boko Haram: protection issues for displaced and distressed women and children in Northern Nigerian cities
… insurgency has engulfed many parts of Northern Nigeria since 2010. About two million people have fled into urban areas around crisis zones. …
Publication, 01 April 2018
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… approach to biomass energy is the central argument of a new IIED report ‘Bundles of energy’ . The report highlights International … countries are disproportionately dependent on biomass energy: about a quarter of all their energy comes from wood, charcoal, … production, and maybe even enhance such production. Getting serious about the sustainability of existing biomass supply chains such as …
Insight, 11 April 2011
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Local communities: the overlooked first line of defence for wildlife
… But communities themselves are rarely consulted on what they think about IWT and how best to tackle it. The First Line of Defence (FLoD) …
Publication, 01 May 2018
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Navigating ocean investments
… Concerns about the health of our ocean are rising up both the public and … with an eight-year term, for equipment and staff. This covered about 70% of initial funding; grants cover the rest. Principal repayment … offered by MPAs is relatively new, but lessons are emerging about the ingredients for success:  A viable business model is necessary …
Article, 01 October 2019
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa opens COP22 (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: Key decisions needed at COP22
… has not yet been done.  Subhi Barakat , a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group , explains: What is COP22? SB: The … UNFCCC regime and when most people refer to the COP, they are talking about the entire climate change conference, including all the different … are available on the UNFCCC website . Subhi Barakat (subhi.barakat@iied.org) is a senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group …
Article, 11 November 2016
Nigerian subsidy crisis shows the road to a green economy isn’t smooth
… . After all, in 2011, as global consumers of fossil fuels we received about six times more government subsidies than those provided to the … and economic context which needs to be understood. That’s why IIED’s model for national dialogues are so important.  The pathway to … All of us interested in sustainable development often wax lyrical about the symbiotic relationship between environment, the economy and …
Insight, 17 January 2012
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
… little say in how the funds are spent. But a side event  co-hosted by IIED and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent … Internal 'plumbing' enables finance to flow As Clare Shakya , head of IIED's Climate Change research group explains in a short video interview … governments and on to communities. "The approach we're piloting is about working with governments to get these strong internal mechanisms …
News, 02 December 2016