Search results

922 results
A gold-plated "supercar". London's newspapers recently reported on a Saudi Arabian prince who had four gold-plated sports cars flown to London for his use while on holiday (Photo: Alexandre Prévot, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: tackling inequality and unsustainable consumption
… provide a platform to share ideas on a new economic model to tackle climate change and protect the environment. Kenner's presentation reviewed the … additional tax revenues gained could be used to fund renewables or adaptation measures. After the event, Kenner wrote a blog on defining …
Event, 20 April 2016
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… large research institutes. Similarly, national and global debates on climate change strategies around agrofuels and agricultural development have had … civil society, particularly from groups traditionally excluded from policy processes such as women and indigenous people. These groups are …
Project, 01 September 2011
Cover for 10706IIED.pdf
Modelling demand for catastrophic flood index-based insurance in Da Nang City, Vietnam: Using choice experiments
… Insurance for catastrophic disasters, despite being in the interest of policy makers and private insurers in the context of climate change, has not achieved significant penetration and suffers low …
Publication, 01 June 2014
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… . Put simply, the world faces a set of 'wicked problems' such as climate change, poverty and fragility. They are 'wicked' because the solutions … of IIED's work. Poverty and inequality? Yes. Inclusive approaches to policy and problem solving? Yes. Capacity building for the marginalised? …
Insight, 21 March 2016
Three people stand talking in a street. A man, a woman and, in the middle, a young man wearing a face mask.
A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out
… of basic services; and supporting holistic interventions, such as climate-change adaptive social protection. A call for inclusion Marginalised by …
Insight, 24 May 2022
“Protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people benefits us all”
… gave the example of indigenous peoples in Peru who are responding to climate change by reintroducing native potato varieties and so are “helping to … Genetic diversity makes it possible to select desirable traits for adaptation. So the value of diversity increases as variability and …
Insight, 09 June 2011
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is growing rapidly. Urban ARK is exploring the varied vulnerabilities of boys and girls from conflict-displaced and host communities (Photo: Jean Rebiffé, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK)
… reduction in sub-Saharan African cities. The partnership involved 12 policy and academic institutions, led by Kings College London, which … evolved in the context of urban growth and alteration, poverty and climate change. An essential component of Urban ARK was building a community of …
Project, 21 December 2016
Screenshots from IIED best videos
IIED's best of 2020: videos
… and shifting the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)  online. This will feature insight into research and … European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop … what’s being said. 6 How the poorest countries are taking on climate change [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36SB3UaY5N8] “We know …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Delegates at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru. (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
An ‘historic opportunity’ to reduce poverty and emissions to zero to be highlighted by #zerozero campaign
… The heads of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre , the International Institute for Environment and … delegates began gathering for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties 20 (COP20) meeting  in Lima, … Development Institute (ODI). "Effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies are pivotal to eradicating poverty. Without …
News, 04 December 2014
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of climate change. Or cities that are keeping their greenhouse-gas emissions to a … in the common good now needs to be expanded to address climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as sustainable urbanisation. … Policy and planning …
Insight, 12 October 2015