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Young people in Okola, Cameroon, cluster around a Global Positioning System that they are using to create a community map with geographical features.
Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
… areas we focus on in the next strategic period. IIED believes that change is more likely to happen when policies are informed by … and politicians, and the persistence of a pro-market ideology. Climate change. All nations now recognise the need to adapt to climate … local government in Nepal with the funds to tackle climate change adaptation , to India’s biometric database designed to implement a …
Insight, 07 June 2013
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… oceans' by 2050 and millions of livelihoods lost unless there is a change in current trends. This report sets out a clear and achievable … key positions of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in climate change negotiations Ahead of the UN climate summit in New York … as the summit's "unsung heroes".   Ecosystem- and community-based adaptation: learning from natural resource management   As …
Article, 29 December 2014
New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience
… people around the world, and will be critical to how they respond to climate change and other environmental challenges. To shine a light on this way … biocultural systems, and the threats they face. Practical tools and strategies for protecting biocultural systems: community biocultural … New website shows how nature plus culture equals resilience …
News, 18 May 2011
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… solutions can help poor people adapt to, and mitigate the effects of, climate change. For example, preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can … Assessing the evidence for the effectiveness of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA)  and building the evidence base  to keep track of how …
Article, 16 August 2013
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week join in a session on audience mapping (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Effective policy influence with a four-point plan
… in different environments. Jane Kiiru, communications officer for the Adaptation Consortium  that Ced works with in Kenya, was also with us to … is essential to support citizen empowerment linked to policy change. Our comms learning week colleagues endorsed the view that media … Haque, communications coordinator at the International Centre for Climate Change and development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, has recently been …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… role of indigenous peoples is poorly recognised in most biodiversity strategies and targets. Limited progress has been made on the Convention … that drive biodiversity loss. Biocultural heritage territories A change in perspective is needed. In 2005, IIED and its partners … research with scientists have enhanced yields despite severe climate change impacts. And landscape-based biocultural products and …
Insight, 18 February 2020
Annual report 2007/08
… human face of sustainable development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an IIED-run climate …
Page, 23 December 2008
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… energy itself could enable developing countries to fight poverty and climate change, create jobs and gain energy independence. The need to adopt a … for national energy security and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It would develop clear institutional oversight with policy …
Insight, 11 April 2011
Sub Saharan African woman drying fish. Photo: Patrick Dugan via WorldFish on Flickr
The missing 't'
… and shocks such as food shortages and reduced adaptive capacity to climate change. Source: Data extracted from World Resource Institute database; … Pirate or illegal fishing can potentially threaten the health and resilience of fisheries in the country, which seriously affects local …
Insight, 13 July 2010
Annual report 2009/10
… out the future to pay for the present. Featured project highlights Climate change Adaptation after Copenhagen:  in the Least Developed Countries, …
Page, 21 October 2010