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10 Downing St. creative commons, MOD
IIED responds to UK election outcome
… be anticipated yet, however IIED hopes that the SNP's ambitious climate plans will spur on the UK government. 2015 is a landmark year for climate change and sustainable development. The global community must seize the … in directing overseas aid to the Green Climate Fund. These climate adaptation funds should be used to ensure poverty reduction is also …
News, 08 May 2015
10 Downing St (Photo: Ministry of Defence, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED hopes new UK government will demonstrate leadership on inclusive citizenship and green prosperity
… be anticipated yet, however IIED hopes that the SNP's ambitious climate plans will spur on the UK government. 2015 is a landmark year for climate change and sustainable development. The global community must seize the … in directing overseas aid to the Green Climate Fund. These climate adaptation funds should be used to ensure poverty reduction is also …
News, 07 May 2015
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
… But how can such a transformation be possible with so little change suggested in the national and global frameworks and funding … people whose high consumption lifestyles are driving anthropogenic climate change. And they include a billion urban dwellers living in … disaster risk reduction and to integrating this with climate change adaptation. Also a strong endorsement of the work of the United Nations …
Insight, 08 September 2015
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… from the late 1960s to the 1990s were the most dramatic example of climate variability in the 20th century. Until recently one word – … affairs in the UN system – is currently processing a major policy statement on combating desertification, land degradation and … The inability of desertification to explain social and environmental change in the Sahel is not an isolated case. The concept of …
Insight, 29 September 2016
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 … to address the problems that prevent them from eating well. Possible policy responses and actions to ensure greater food security for the …
Event, 08 February 2020
Meceburi Forest, Mozambique: a young woman harvests casava (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
Seeds of the post-capitalist forest?
… be boosted by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate agreement. SDGs for the trees Local forestry initiatives really … and in non-market mechanisms now known as 'joint mitigation and adaptation'. True, there are no actual binding targets for limiting …    Meanwhile, as Paul Mason points out in PostCapitalism , climate-change deniers are perhaps less worrying than the fantasists who believe …
Insight, 11 February 2016
People putting up solar panels
Inclusive finance for universal energy access
… into detailed number-crunching. Our analysis of international, public climate finance for the first time put concrete numbers on the large … energy are wide-ranging and well-known. They include: gaps in policy regimes and political will for decentralised energy, both with … 2019 . This issue was discussed in the second episode of IIED's Make Change Happen podcast in November 2019.  There is also the significant …
Article, 13 November 2019
Tom Pye helped redesign the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) newsletter, a monthly bulletin for people working on biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation (Image: PCLG)
A valuable learning experience
… board when the redesigned newsletter launched in March 2016. Driving change Following my work with PCLG I was part of a project investigating the extent to which policies involving ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) are present within international agreements. EBA … and restoration of ecosystems to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change , for example restoration of mangrove forests to protect …
Insight, 19 April 2016
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… small-scale fisheries into disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change planning Communities living on exposed coastlines are … address this gap:  Include the small-scale fishery sector in National Adaptation Plans Promote action on DRM in the small-scale fishery sector …
Insight, 17 November 2016
The hidden byway to recovery?
… and well in UK government. Ed Miliband , the country’s Energy and Climate Change Minister, said today that recession will not deflect government … trickier. Finding ways of making these two ‘invisible’ elements policy tools for adapting and coping with changing climate is going to …
Insight, 20 January 2010