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Two women carrying farming tools
IIED's best of 2019: videos
… Developed Countries (LDC) Group of the UNFCCC. Launched at the 2019 Climate Action Summit in New York, the LDC 2050 Vision is the LDCs’ … 70% of climate funding to drive local-level action, holistic climate change planning from the local to the national level, and ensuring … address to the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA13) , which took place in April in …
Insight, 06 January 2020
A man walks with his roaming goats.
Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions
… be presented at the 7th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 22-25 April. "Policymakers often dismiss … Current policy narratives limit climate resilience in world’s dry regions …
News, 19 April 2013
Women using the Changu Changu Moto Fuel-Efficient Clean Cookstove, Malawi, Africa (Photo: Ripple Africa)
Technologies for sustainable development: mind the gender gap
… cook stoves; in agriculture, small-scale irrigation technologies and climate smart techniques have improved crop yields and boosted … much progress at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ).  This momentum must continue at the local level with … the UNFCC and LDC Expert Group will convene the Regional National Adaptation Plans (NAP) Expo .  …
Insight, 30 April 2018
Bolivian family farming organisations show a poster about their award-winning coffee business development activity at the World Rural Forum in Bilbao, Spain (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Modern food systems to emerge in new decade of family farming
… helping these men and women farmers to adapt to, and mitigate, climate change – a modern solution to problems cause by an outdated industrial … related services (eg innovations in certification) Climate action and resilience through sustainable natural resource management Farmer-led …
Insight, 04 April 2019
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate change summit. The stated aim of Habitat III is to agree a " new urban … London. He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on …
Event, 05 May 2016
IIED's Andrew Norton and IIED chair Rebeca Grynspan with Gro Harlem Brundtland sit at the front of the Barbara Ward lecture on 19 June 2018
Come on board: IIED seeks new chair
… Professionals and public alike are recognising the urgency of the climate emergency and chronic biodiversity loss , as well as the agency … we work to address critical environment and development issues. Real change for those in need, now IIED’s board was instrumental in … Together we will:  Help vulnerable communities develop and become climate resilient, while pushing hard for urgent reductions in emissions …
Insight, 10 May 2019
Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
… This week's climate summit in New York is one of a few remaining stepping stones to the internationally binding agreement to tackle climate change expected to be agreed at a UN summit in Paris next year. At the … only lead to greater adverse effects, increasing need for climate adaptation, as well as residual and permanent loss and damage in LDCs …
Article, 19 September 2014
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… against the goals will be assessed; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will assess whether the commitments for 2020 laid out in … not engaged in biodiversity diplomacy in the way they have with climate change? Part of the problem is that the links between …
Insight, 29 April 2019
An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
… interest and mutual interest (confronting global challenges such as climate change and preventing epidemics) as well as solidarity with the global … their mitigation programmes, and to raise tax revenues to support adaptation. Reversing the trend The Addis Ababa Action Agenda called for … Climate change …
Insight, 18 January 2016
The Nebbou area, between Ouagadougou and Leo, a dry reservoir used for the manufacture of handmade bricks in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR))
Archive of completed drylands and pastoralist projects
… This video exploring the impact of climate change on pastoralists living in the drylands is one of many videos IIED … stresses in the area, including pilot climate mitigation and adaptation planning processes, pilot investments in municipalities, and … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity …
Article, 17 December 2012