Search results

437 results
Women bends over a field.
Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge
Insight, 27 September 2021
Many flags
IIED and partner events at COP25
… from food and agriculture, to finance, cities and infrastructure and biodiversity. All of these sectors are aware of the need for … (CIP), Andean Initiative; IIED; Mountain Partnership (MP) Mountain ecosystems are especially impacted by the climate crisis, undermining … is needed that considers the ecosystem in its entirety – restores biodiversity, peatlands and water flows – and mobilises the key …
Event, 02 December 2019
Cover for 20376G.pdf
Indigenous Naxi-Moso cultural values and worldviews for sustainable development: Four Village Biocultural Heritage Coalition, Yunnan, China
Publication, 06 August 2021
Cover for G04182.pdf
SENTINEL: Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… so that food security can be improved without losing precious biodiversity and without worsening social inequality. … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 October 2017
Africa is the last place on Earth with a significant assemblage of large mammals, according to the IPBES report (Photo: Kasia Wallis, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Warnings on state of life on our planet are loud, clear and alarming
… "The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' revelations about the state of life … "Its warnings of the drastic effects of ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss – in cold hard economic terms demand urgent action. … and the freedom to organise – good stewardship of biodiversity and ecosystems follows. "This needs much greater recognition at the highest …
News, 23 March 2018
A close-up photo of a row of Dove soap bottles, focusing on the first bottle with others in a column behind.
Addressing the ‘triple crisis’ COVID-19, climate change and nature loss: a catalyst for business to increase its sustainability?
Insight, 08 September 2021
Governments must work with local people to save the world’s nature
… marginalisation or impoverishment. Their deep knowledge of species, ecosystems and how to protect them is crucial for halting biodiversity loss and restoring it for us now and for future …
News, 30 September 2020
Community members at Mgahinga National Park, Uganda discuss the Social Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas methodology (Photo: Rob Small)
Enhancing the equity and effectiveness of protected area conservation
… Global efforts to reduce biodiversity loss are heavily focused on expanding the network of … and equitably governed if they are to successfully support both biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing, and within the current … and governance, as well as distribution. Our aims were to increase biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing around the project sites …
Project, 12 November 2018
The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
… the Convention on Biological Diversity, implementing the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets by 2020 – such as addressing underlying causes of biodiversity loss and safeguarding ecosystems, species and genetic diversity – will deliver substantial … Biodiversity …
Insight, 25 July 2017
Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… conservation challenges of our time, including scaling up action on biodiversity and the sustainable development goals.  Members of IIED's … adaptation (EbA) for enhancing resilience of both humans and ecosystems. This was done through highlighting evidence and lessons … ANDES with support from IIED, were shared, in addition to the Biodiversity and Community Health (BaCH) workshop, the ICCA Consortium …
Event, 01 September 2016