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A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
… The 'Engaging citizens for socially just climate action' project  examines deliberative and participatory … the complex issues affecting pastoralist communities such as climate change risks, ecosystem degradation, loss of land and territories and … patterns directly affect customary natural resource management and adaptation strategies. The alliance does not have any systematic …
Article, 11 December 2020
Renewables, why bother?
… all, why should countries that haven't significantly contributed to climate change worry about reducing their relatively tiny carbon emissions? In … to attract climate finance, both for mitigation and increasingly for adaptation. Such support could be leveraged to develop low-carbon or … Climate change …
Insight, 04 August 2010
A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… Advisory Group; Ebru Gencer, Centre for Urban Risk Reduction & Resilience; Lucy Earle, IIED Urbanisation intersects with climate change, natural disasters, conflict and displacement – and is a critical …
Event, 08 February 2020
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
… repositories of genetic resources for food and agriculture and climate adaptation.  The film opens with the vision for biocultural heritage … as a strategy to enhance food security in the face of climate change. Today's unprecedented erosion of genetic and cultural diversity … Climate change …
News, 11 November 2014
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
News, 22 January 2013
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… requiring collective effort in the year ahead, including climate action and the energy transition, the future of work, the role … to advocate for more sustainable, diverse and healthy diets. The Food Change Lab is a dialogue convened by Hivos and IIED to look at issues in … and spatial information should be used with caution. Ecosystem-based adaptation as a tool for climate resilience January: Policymakers are …
Article, 22 December 2017
Delegates at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
D&C Days in Lima to highlight 'historic opportunity' to reduce poverty and emissions to zero (#zerozero)
News, 04 December 2014
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… .  2 Tackling the triple crisis: using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19 I ssue paper  Even before … swaps – a system that makes it possible to tackle the debt, climate change and nature emergencies together, in order to reduce poverty and … other areas,” says IIED’s Paul Steele . 5 What is effective climate adaptation? Case studies from the least developed countries I ssue paper …
Article, 23 December 2020
The new Guardians of Diversity film documents a gathering of indigenous farmers from mountain communities around the world to exchange knowledge and ideas
Film documents visit to "Guardians of Diversity" in the Potato Park
News, 10 November 2014
A man in a face mask talking to a group of people
Facing a COVID-19 future: listening and learning to inform the ‘new normal’
… a new dimension and potentially disrupts carefully thought-through adaptation strategies. In the short term, we’re thinking about how to … responses are needed urgently? We’ve seen with our work on getting climate finance to the local level and to the small organisations and … build capability. And as Sheela Patel says , if we want to deliver change, we actually have to make room for risk. This is a difficult …
Insight, 28 May 2020