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An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
Insight, 18 January 2016
US special climate envoy Todd Stern tells journalists his views on the 'Higher Ambition Coalition'. LDC chair Giza Gaspar-Martins in second left on the panel at the press conference (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A symbolic victory on 1.5 degrees for LDC Group in Paris
Insight, 18 December 2015
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
Insight, 25 February 2020
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
Insight, 24 November 2015
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… and return them to the communities who can use them to support local adaptation systems," said Alejandro Argumedo, director of Asociacion …
News, 31 October 2007
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal …
Event, 17 November 2018
Approximately 80 heads of state and government attended the UN climate change conference in Marrakech in November 2016 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How can the poorest increase the influence of their climate diplomacy? 
Insight, 19 January 2017
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… genetic diversity and traditional knowledge, support climate change adaptation and end hunger, including the Sustainable Development Goals. …
Insight, 16 January 2017
A Raika man leading his sheep and goats to graze in the contested Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary.
How communities are protecting their biocultural resources with community protocols
… conservation efforts by communities, support climate change adaptation, and help to establish long-term partnerships between …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Somali and Boran pastoralists came together to discuss ways to share water resources at a meeting this month. (Credit: James Pattison)
Kenya: The importance of cross-border dialogue in the drylands
… working with IIED on drylands development and climate change adaptation, under a project led by Ced Hesse ([email protected]). The …
Insight, 19 March 2014