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IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
… On arrival in Lima last week, I realised I hadn't been to a climate Conference of the Parties since Copenhagen in 2009. The sense of … Delhi in 2002. But there is also a wonderful team from the climate change group, communications, natural resources and human settlements … their listing at the bottom of the Climate Change Performance Index, along with Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Our message of …
Insight, 11 December 2014
Outdoor workers in Da Nang are prone to heat stress. Credit: COHED.
To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
… decide how vulnerable someone living in a city is to the impacts of climate change, or how they become more resilient? What makes some policy … to protect workers from heat exposure, and develop a heat stress index to enable government officials, employers and workers to better … Climate change … To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability …
Insight, 30 October 2013
Cover for G00040.pdf
Adaptation to Climate Change and Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
… Document begins: Adaptation to Climate Change and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) What are the LDCs? Three … criterion, which involves the Augmented Physical Quality of Life Index (APQLI) based on nutrition, health, education and adult literacy … Climate change … Adaptation to Climate Change and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… in the context of increasing challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss. Publishing research in such journals, and … reflecting the priorities of affected communities. The Ocean Equity Index , Nature 650, 123-128 (January 2026) The Ocean Equity Index is a …
Article, 23 September 2020
Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)
2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee
… as fossil fuel interests . During 2018 the warning signs that climate and natural systems are under massive strain accelerated. The UK … of alarming losses of global biodiversity. The 2018 Living Planet Index recorded an overall decline of 60% in species populations since … to go – while the idea is gaining support, US politics would have to change a lot for it to become feasible . The Green New Deal makes a …
Insight, 30 December 2018
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Corporates could teach NGOs a thing or two about sustainability
… arms to talk about sustainability. Allianz showcases its knowledge on climate change, demographic trends, energy and hunger, through news and analysis … that reason they both rank high on the Social Media Sustainability Index , written by Matthew Yeomans and fellow Social Media Influence …
Insight, 27 June 2012
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… adaptive capacity, smallholder farmers are highly vulnerable to these climate shocks and stresses. In the lead up to the summit, national … and extension and irrigation Scale up and out sustainable, climate-smart, regenerative, biodiverse and resilient agricultural … in risk mitigation and management strategies such as weather-based index insurance to build resilience against climate shocks. 3. Invest in …
Insight, 20 September 2021
COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
… sense that some much-needed momentum was amassing behind the need for climate action. In September, during the UN Climate Summit in New York, … , demonstrating their view that fighting the impacts of climate change is a shared responsibility. Then in the Bonn negotiations in … industrial country' on the 2015 Global Climate Change Performance Index.   But negotiations began to falter and, with just one day to go …
News, 19 December 2014
In Kenya's Isiolo County, repeated droughts are forcing pastoralists out of herding and into farming. The county has used TAMD to assess climate risk management schemes (Photo: Martin Karimi/ECHO)
Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD): Country work
… outube.com/watch?v=1N3ysZbJoQQ&list=PL1iUHL94bWo7sfTCiEdXFEQmIhKBWcXv4&index=3] Supporting local planning Work in Kenya, Mozambique and … focused on using TAMD to support effective local planning for climate change. In Kenya, Isiolo County used TAMD to identify county-level … Climate change …
Article, 28 October 2014
Seaweed farming in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, is an example of an alternative livelihood project (Photo: Yeowatzup via Creative Commons)
IIED's best of 2014: blogs
… from a 'brown' economy to a green one also poses challenges" Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers? July: … and targets that have not been met" Nepal: Measuring resilience to climate change from the community up February: Effective monitoring and … two from Australian farmers like Bill" The Multidimensional Poverty Index: Another underestimate of urban poverty June: Yet another global …
Article, 31 December 2014