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IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … are reached, Chinese businesses – the key driver of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable … navigate more than 240 tools and methods relevant to ecosystem-based adaptation. Indigenous peoples and local communities have been working …
Article, 27 December 2019
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City Governance and Citizen Action
… within urban redevelopment in Seoul. ~There are also three papers on climate change and cities: Durban’s adaptation plan; the vulnerabilities of children and youth to climate … Urban …
Publication, 01 October 2008
Images such as this of a culvert constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya in Kenya, but which proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall, are often used to tell the story of climate change in Africa. But Fatima Denton will challenge that narrative in her Barbara Ward Lecture (Photo: Robin Wyatt, http://www.robinwyatt.org/photography/)
Room for optimism on Africa, the "hopeful" continent
Insight, 21 October 2014
Images of indigenous biocultural heritage territories are profiled in a new photofilm (Photo: IIED)
New photofilm profiles biocultural heritage territories
News, 11 November 2014
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… and shifting the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA14)  online. This will feature insight into research and … European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) , which supports junior climate negotiators from least developed countries (LDCs) to develop … what’s being said. 6 How the poorest countries are taking on climate change [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36SB3UaY5N8] “We know …
Insight, 30 December 2020
An image of a man faking injury being treated by a Bangladesh firefighter as part of a training exercise on collaborative search and rescue operations, helping the city to respond more effectively to disasters (Photo: Oregon National Guard, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Article, 25 May 2016
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… pathways' – unique ways of working that help IIED to deliver lasting change. Our  annual report for 2017/18  looks at how IIED uses these … Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in international negotiations on climate change . LDCs have most at stake, but are least able to cope … we presented a new guide on using natural resources and ecosystems in adaptation work to more than 200 practitioners and policymakers at the  …
Page, 24 October 2018
Women distributing seeds in Andhra Pradesh, India (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Q&A: Why indigenous seed-saving women are the stewards of biodiversity
… – innovation systems to strengthen food security in the face of climate change. The five-year project worked with indigenous and traditional … better adapted to local environments and provide crucial options for adaptation to future climatic and market changes. Preserving traditional …
Article, 18 October 2018
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… right, but also essential in order to deliver genuinely sustainable change. Hawley's blog reviewed 'Why women will save the planet ', a new … With cities growing and urbanising across the world, supporting rural-urban migrants will be a key task.  McGranahan was summarising an … na mwenye mwana" (You have to be part of the dance). The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend? …
Article, 28 December 2016