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Forestry tractor carrying fruits from a field
ALIGN: Advancing Land-based Investment Governance
Project, 22 September 2020
A person walks between two ponds.
Locally-led action key to delivering the new global biodiversity framework
Insight, 06 October 2021
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… between parties, giving the investor additional leverage: a recent IIED report shows that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) could … biodiversity and a key source of fresh water (to find out more about it, see the IIED long read and documentary ). The Santurbán páramo … preventing regulatory chill  The decision of the government brought about partial regulatory chill, but the court reversed it. The court …
Insight, 21 December 2020
A road going into the distance splits two fields
Stopping land and policy grabs in the shadow of COVID-19
… relations and settle old scores. A growing number of reports about land governance in the time of COVID-19 suggest that national … José Francisco Cali Tzay, recently expressed serious concerns about the way states of emergency are further marginalising indigenous … and a range of collaborative action-research initiatives such as IIED's legal tools for citizen empowerment . They also helped challenge …
Insight, 01 June 2020
Modern technology means data privacy policies must be stronger than ever. But IIED is treating GDPR as an opportunity rather than a threat (Image: IIED)
Sending out the right messages
… from us this week asking if you want to stay subscribed to one of IIED's themed, or general, email newsletters . All of our subscribers … text, and it's here where much of the debate and discussion lies about how to process an individual's data.  In this time, we have … policy: We don't like 'spam' and we want to tell our audiences only about things that are relevant to them. We want you to trust us to …
Insight, 28 February 2018
Natural capital accounting can help monitor progress against Sustainable Development Goals indicators (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Making the link between the SDGs and natural capital accounting
… from Bram Edens, senior statistician at the UN Statistics Division, about how accounts can be a useful tool to monitor progress against SDG … NCA, not only to inform how to communicate and engage with audiences about existing accounts in a relevant way, but also to be a driver for … the third policy forum in 2018. Rosalind Goodrich (rosalind.goodrich@iied.org) is head of research communications at IIED. A version of this …
Insight, 03 January 2018
Workshop participants will hear from senior LDC climate negotiator Mamadou Honadia, who headed Burkina Faso's delegation to the 2016 UN climate summit (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Building climate negotiation skills for African officials
News, 31 May 2017
Three people stand talking in a street. A man, a woman and, in the middle, a young man wearing a face mask.
A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out
… youth perspective on a vision for transformative urban recovery that IIED produced in collaboration with urban stakeholders in 2020-21. The IIED framework encompasses principles around governance for … with opportunities to get involved in community-level decision making about COVID-19 responses. Practicing participation in local governance …
Insight, 24 May 2022
A protest march
Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
… without wide consultation.  The social movements’ call of ‘’nothing about us without us’’ is key to environmental and climate justice being achieved. But IIED’s work to amplify indigenous voices on the Sustainable Development … their experiences both at local and global levels. Find out more about the OECD Global Forum on Environment event …
Insight, 14 May 2020
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
… up, using considerable energy and funds – and then lost. Supported by IIED under the Urban Crises programme  then funded by the Department for … and sustainability are better measures to reward. We are not smart about data. We don’t consider the cost and value Agencies said … vast data which is not available to or used by the people it is about. Single use data, like single use plastic, is wasteful. We don’t …
Insight, 24 October 2021