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PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… Islands has generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change. How a modified form of scoring, used within a livelihoods …
Article, 31 August 2013
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 … the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and urgent need for adaptation, and building resilience.    We now need to do something …
Insight, 05 March 2015
Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment
… investment opportunities] become attractive to large investors ". Based on our recent research , financial aggregators such as SunFunder , … customers. Clare Shakya ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Climate Change research group ; Rebecca Byrnes is a legal research and …
Insight, 03 November 2017
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Corporates could teach NGOs a thing or two about sustainability
… arms to talk about sustainability. Allianz showcases its knowledge on climate change, demographic trends, energy and hunger, through news and analysis … media philosophy - transparency, authenticity and learning from your community to build a stronger more profitable and, yes, better business …
Insight, 27 June 2012
Delegates at the 4th Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in West Africa (Photo: GWI West Africa)
ECOWAS water ministers agree to build fairer dams
… resources their populations rely on to survive. In the context of climate change, energy and food production were high on the international agenda … 27 November 2015, and chaired by Senegal's ministry for water. It is based on the 'Guidelines for the development of water infrastructure in …
News, 16 December 2015
Business models for sustainable development
… distinguishes it from its competitors. Two broad areas for possible adaptation and innovation of a business model are production and … Now, as forests become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. … Up Additional resources Engineers against Poverty Channels for Change: Private Water and the Urban Poor Wilson & Zarsky Power to the …
Article, 10 May 2010
Old woman in profile in front of thatched hut and mud house. Niger.
Making gender and generation matter
… on poverty reduction and sustainable development. Background Social change is closely intertwined with the articulation between production …   Raising the profile of Gender and Generation: The role of the Climate Change Media Partnership : this paper details the initiatives … are taken into account in the development of policies and plans for adaptation to climate change in Nepal and investigates the opportunities …
Project, 26 April 2011
Non-literate farmer filmmakers help save biodiversity
… The IIED, Deccan Development Society and village-based women's groups called sanghams teamed up to study ways to sustain … to increase people’s livelihoods options and ability to adapt to climate change. It also created stable local markets for marginalised producers …
News, 14 May 2008
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… vital moves towards locally controlled forestry, viable forest-based climate strategies and practical forest governance. Locally-controlled … that marginalise rather than empower forest people. Securing climate change mitigation and, equally importantly, adaptation from forestry is tricky where few other forest goods and …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… will demonstrate nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change, health and supporting human life. The work of IIED Members of … conserves 1,460 varieties of potato for food security and climate adaptation, this model is now being scaled up to set up similar …
Event, 12 November 2014