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Cover for 10098IIED.pdf
Summary of outstanding Essential Requirements for the GCF
… Following the Sixth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (the Board) in February there are still a number of … resolved before donors can begin to pledge money to the coffers Green Climate Fund (GCF) which is expected in September at the United Nations … ~6) Initial Modalities for the Operation of the Fund’s Mitigation and Adaptation Windows and its Private Sector Facility ~7) Structure of the …
Publication, 01 May 2014
Cover for G03067.pdf
Hivos Provocation Insights 1: Producer agency and the agenda to make markets work for the poor
… to markets. This reflects the prevailing consensus in development policy that markets can and should play a central role in meeting the … resources, as providers of environmental services, and as adapters to climate change. …
Publication, 01 February 2011
The field team designing a REDD strategy talk to farmer Nimale Maribu Saidi as part of their field research in Meceburi Forest Reserve, Mozambique .Photo by Mike Goldwater
Inclusive environmental investments
… commitments at an international level for mitigating and adapting to climate change . One of the best-known climate change mitigation mechanisms … of deforestation. How the private sector is engaged in REDD+ and what policy and institutional frameworks exist to enable this to happen . …
Project, 07 September 2013
Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)
2015: the International Year of Soils
Article, 09 April 2015
Rosalind Goodrich's tweet about developing communications strategies (Image: IIED)
Planning for communication starts at research design stage
… as IIED, is that you do research to make a difference and promote change. And this will only happen if people buy into what you find out. … being coded as environmental expenditure (including biodiversity and climate adaptation in this case), and how this relates to policy development, …
Insight, 27 March 2017
Cover for G03518.pdf
Can the low-carbon development agenda increase energy access for the poor in Nigeria?
… As signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Nigeria has made international … agenda alone will not transform Nigeria’s energy sector for climate adaptation and mitigation, or to support pro-poor energy access. More …
Publication, 01 September 2012
The Independent Expert Group has produced a series of publications (Image: IIED)
The work of the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… research institutes and think tanks from around the world, supporting change for a sustainable future A compilation of audio interviews is … levels, be cross-cutting, and engage the people affected.  Impact of climate change on least developed countries: are the SDGs possible? , … IPCC report to highlight how climatic impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation are portrayed for these countries. It illuminates a need for …
Article, 07 August 2015
Cover for 10106IIED.pdf
Cost and Values Analysis of TAMD in Kenya
… Implementing the tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework allows public authorities to assess climate risk management processes and contributions from adaptation or development policy. In Kenya, TAMD is used to introduce climate risk management into …
Publication, 01 December 2014
Major deposit in biodiversity bank to protect future of food
… Svalbard archipelago. It has been designed as the ultimate insurance policy to protect the diversity on which global agriculture depends, from threats such as climate change. An association of Peruvian indigenous communities is sending its …
News, 22 February 2011
Cover for G03112.pdf
Testing and enriching guidance modules for the 'facilitation of support for small and medium forest enterprises' - second workshop report
… incentives for avoiding deforestation and mitigating and adapting to climate change. Forest Connect is an international alliance dedicated to … linking SMFEs to each other, to markets, to service providers and to policy processes such as national forest programmes (NFPs). It currently …
Publication, 01 May 2011