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Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… to evaluating progress on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is based on emerging country experience from … .  2 Tackling the triple crisis: using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19 I ssue paper  Even before … opportunity to address simultaneously the crises of debt, climate and biodiversity destruction through a new use of the system of debt for …
Article, 23 December 2020
A woman with a basket on her back picks tea leaves from a huge field surrounding her
Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate
… conference to put the environment at the forefront of international development discussions. The resulting Stockholm Declaration set out 26 … Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, and encourage the adoption of green …
Insight, 27 May 2022
People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"
COP27 and the important year ahead
Insight, 22 November 2021
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… institutions, enterprises, or projects that link the conservation of biodiversity to human livelihood, through the principles of sustainable … for Biodiversity and Human Resilience Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement (CBD event – invitation only) … results from the Potato Park and the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, Peru The Darwin Initiative – past, present …
Event, 17 November 2018
Four images of people from IIED's 2021 'super year' video, including a fisher hauling nets
IIED and the ‘super year’
… The world is dealing with multiple crises – the climate crisis, unprecedented biodiversity loss, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. These … pandemic recovery packages, to drive cohesive climate, nature and development outcomes.  Why was 2021 so important?  2021 presented major … Biodiversity … Climate change …
Article, 02 February 2021
Close-up of a group of young climate demonstrators
Acting on the planetary emergency
… Warnings on the climate emergency have rung out clearly over the last year, voiced by … permafrost. April’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report highlighted the … be working throughout 2020 to seize opportunities to keep encouraging development actors to recognise and act on biodiversity loss as an …
Insight, 29 November 2019
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
…  that you don’t want to miss.  1 Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development … local people and, ultimately, the delivery of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals.  The … jobs, food security and empowerment as well as resilience to climate change.   Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that …
Article, 17 December 2021
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… political events in 2019 marked key moments for influencing the climate action agenda, including this September’s UN Secretary-General’s … will continue to build in this “super year” – with a critical UN biodiversity conference (COP15), the maturing of 21 Sustainable Development Goal targets, global ocean treaty negotiations, finishing …
Insight, 28 January 2020
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… in how video was used in a variety of ways to communicate sustainable development issues in the wake of COVID-19, that trend continued over … for our video efforts earlier this month when one of a series of climate change animations was nominated in the Charity Film Awards … 3 2020 annual review: Sharing nature-based solutions for climate and biodiversity [VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C8XUAHkRpg] In …
Insight, 28 December 2021
A huddle of people gather around one person to give advice and discuss negotiating tactics
Leading from the front: responding with urgency to the climate emergency
… During London Climate Action Week, least developed countries’ representatives, … and more recently the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)  raised the alarm that more … free society by 2050, bending the curve of global emissions by 2020 and rapidly reducing emissions thereafter. The world’s LDCs and …
Event, 01 July 2019