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A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… Reduction & Resilience; Lucy Earle, IIED Urbanisation intersects with climate change, natural disasters, conflict and displacement – and is a critical … lessons from research carried out in cities in Cambodia, Nepal and Bangladesh, on how the urban poor define and measure food insecurity and …
Event, 08 February 2020
Collecting water from a solar-based purification system supplied by CAFOD. Chila Union, Mongla District, Bangladesh. Photo: Photo: Paula Nyunt / CAFOD
CAFOD/IIED show context is key to sustainable energy for all
… the challenge of powering the world while preventing dangerous climate change, with goals on doubling energy efficiency and renewable energy … on the ground.   Sarah Wykes is lead analyst on environment and climate change for Cafod; Ben Garside is a researcher for the …
Insight, 16 September 2013
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a 'new … themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of 'enhancing urban …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week join in a session on audience mapping (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Effective policy influence with a four-point plan
… in different environments. Jane Kiiru, communications officer for the Adaptation Consortium  that Ced works with in Kenya, was also with us to … is essential to support citizen empowerment linked to policy change. Our comms learning week colleagues endorsed the view that media … Haque, communications coordinator at the International Centre for Climate Change and development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, has recently been …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge
… In thousands of rural communities from Bolivia to Bangladesh, traditional knowledge makes up the living core of culture. … conditions ensures traditional practices are robust and adaptable to climate change. Such treasured knowledge needs protection from outside interests …
Article, 09 November 2009
Seeds collected from a farm in Chiapas, Mexico, for replanting and use in traditional medicine. (Photo: Ina Porras)
Conditional transfers for poverty reduction and ecosystem management
… or which deliver public goods. Both PES and CST involve a reward to change behaviour. While CSTs benefit primarily the person receiving the … land practices in watersheds to provide cleaner water, and increased climate resilience in supply chains by planting trees in small coffee … We aim to carry out theory-driven research in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica …
Project, 26 April 2016
In the absence of electricity, students in Bangladesh are given charger lights so they can study at home (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
… gender inequalities is therefore essential to promote transformative change. Concrete indicators on bringing gender budgeting into energy … depends on environmental sustainability Without tackling dangerous climate change, it will not be possible to eradicate poverty and ensure … emissions development but, alone, are insufficient responses to climate change. Action to cut emissions and support poor people to adapt …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… middle of the road assumptions about population growth, technological change and economic growth. Global population of 9.5 billion, 80 per … away from the super-large cities. Coastal cities at high risk from climate change may lose new investment to inland cities. Total urban … in many regions. What would a world committed to climate change adaptation and mitigation, as set out in the Paris Agreement, bring to …
Insight, 07 October 2016