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Mountains, forests and rice paddies in Nepal (Photo: Sajal Sthapit)
Risky business: assessing potential impacts of REDD+ in Nepal
… prepare to engage with REDD+ , a scheme being negotiated at the UN climate change talks to financially reward countries for reducing greenhouse … and to what extent will communities and households involved in forest management benefit? How will food security be affected? How will REDD+ …
Insight, 09 April 2014
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… debates , and making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this … we had started to slip. We needed to improve our systems for contract management and ensure timely delivery of good product. This required a …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Annual report 2009/10
… out the future to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, … IIED held its fourth international conference on community-based climate change adaptation on a front line of the problem – Dar es …
Page, 21 October 2010
Local voice, global forest, local forest, global voice
… group’s message was a simple one, advocating for sustainable forest management and locally controlled forestry as a vital component in any realistic strategy going forward to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. So who is this group and where has it …
Insight, 17 January 2011
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… urban populations. Data to measure progress on the Paris Agreement on climate change also operates at this national level. Implementing international … their potential to innovate, and their agility to adapt to rapid change. But to make robust planning and policy decisions that will …
Insight, 25 February 2020
In the foreground, a hotchpotch of buildings close together, towered over by large buildings in the background.
Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… programme, which seeks to put cities on a path to achieving climate justice and zero-carbon emissions by 2050. Here, IIED senior … to be able to improve access to basic services and responses to climate change. This means adaptation, but also decarbonisation. Local funds are …
Article, 14 June 2022
Boys polish chairs for sale in the furniture market, Nampula, Mozambique.
Introduction to locally-controlled forestry
… and advocacy, and Facilitate the interactions and opportunities to change policies and practice. Regular independent reviews of our work … focused on forest-related priorities, including those relating to climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation, food … to increase the recognition and spread of sustainable forest management by locally-controlled forest organisations Approaches that …
Article, 05 August 2013
Housing in informal settlement.
Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
… the scale and scope of upgrading. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation can be integrated into the upgrading; there is so much … is recognised, then governments and international agencies have to change their funding system – including supporting local funds in each …
Insight, 02 October 2020
Large dams can bring long-term benefits for displaced communities, says study
… them as an adaptation to food insecurity, rising energy prices and climate change so it is essential that they build 'good dams', where the … political will." As global temperatures rise, sustainable water management will become increasingly critical due to increasing frequency …
News, 05 November 2009
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… energy itself could enable developing countries to fight poverty and climate change, create jobs and gain energy independence. The need to adopt a … Carbon emissions: with growing concerns about — and funds to tackle — climate change, why not foster locally produced biomass energy that is …
Insight, 11 April 2011