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A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
Insight, 07 January 2016
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
Les ministres de l'eau de la CEDEAO conviennent de construire des barrages plus équitables
News, 16 December 2015
An area of forest in Tanzania, where REDD+ activities have included the support of community land use planning and the provision of alternative livelihoods (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Tackling deforestation as part of climate action
Insight, 17 December 2015
Weighing sacks of coffee beans in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)
Environmental Funds: sustainable finance for conservation
Insight, 23 July 2014
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
… then stop? Would global temperatures rise at a rate that would make adaptation incredibly difficult? The risks of unintended consequences …
Insight, 20 December 2017
Haramata Communications Initiative
… in Kenyan villages; small grants to support local strategies for adaptation to climate change; trailblazers: how the pastoralists of …
Article, 13 October 2008
Cover for G02180.pdf
Chapter 4 SEA EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
… countries and has been a vector for the wider introduction and adaptation of SEA for domestic applications. The World Bank is in a …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Achala Abeysinghe advises Giza Gaspar-Martins, the former chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, in Paris at COP21 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Women in the poorest countries lack leadership opportunities in the UN
Insight, 12 November 2016
Some ecological settings, such as drylands, which are home to a high proportion of the world’s poor, are poorly studied and have become the neglected 'ugly duckling' of biodiversity research (Photo: Marie Monimart)
What we know about how biodiversity and poverty are linked: The good, the bad and the ugly
Insight, 31 March 2014
Knowledge programme publications
… ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Small-scale farmer strategies to make markets work This …
Article, 14 May 2013