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People wading through the flood waters and carrying their belongings.
Tackling loss and damage in countries vulnerable to the effect of the climate crisis: improving evidence and co-generating pathways to impact
… concerns are urgent and driven by the increasingly harmful effects of climate change. Many countries are facing new types and forms of climate impact … (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where vulnerability is high, and where the people have done least to contribute to the … Climate change … Climate-resilient development …
Project, 27 October 2021
An elderly woman bends over while planting rice
Q&A: Unleashing the potential of forest farmers to address climate change and biodiversity loss
… Estrella ‘Esther’ Penunia (EP) is secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable … members face. Q: What are the main challenges your members face from climate change, loss of biodiversity and land degradation? Are these challenges … Climate change … The 2021 'super year' for climate, nature and people …
Article, 03 June 2021
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… for our video efforts earlier this month when one of a series of climate change animations was nominated in the Charity Film Awards (public … with just as much engagement and interaction. Our top 10 of the year is: 1 Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs …
Insight, 28 December 2021
A protest march
Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
… Environmental justice and climate justice principles are mutually reinforcing, covering respect … boys and girls, in local and global environment and climate movements is important, not only to understand their situation and means of … their needs.  The IIED gender equality, voice and power  theory of change notes, therefore, the need to include women and gendered local …
Insight, 14 May 2020
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… , and these were downloaded more than 40,000 times in 2019. Below is a list of our top 10 most-downloaded publications from the last 12 … goods and services (and are already bearing the brunt of climate change). So why does the development community often ignore biodiversity …
Article, 23 December 2019
Tree branch stuck in the sea.
Listen to young people: cultural practices can provide answers to the climate problem
Insight, 26 September 2021
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Rethinking the roles of the state and communities in urban housing and land-use management
… This is the first of two special issues dedicated to urban housing and … in South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Namibia. The Climate Change in Cities paper explores resilience to climate hazards in smaller …
Publication, 01 April 2020
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… with an emphasis on participatory development, governance and climate resilience. In this conversation, they discuss the importance of … was a need to build ways to listen to and work with local people. Is that your assessment? BG: Yes, that was part of it. I think IIED’s … What we need to do is adapt to new challenges. Of course, climate change has been always there. People have learned to live with climate …
Article, 29 November 2021
Woman digging a hole in the forest
Reimagining solutions to India’s water challenge: the art of governance
… emerging conflict over water sharing between states illustrate, this is also (as in many other countries) an issue of governance. Technical … and are influenced by multidimensional issues such as poverty and climate change. We therefore need an approach that focuses on the ‘art of …
Insight, 20 January 2021
Settlement in Solomon Islands.
How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
… devastation of a different nature. As the adverse effects of climate change escalate, I am more and more worried about my country’s future wellbeing. Food security is a key concern, with irreversible losses to our marine ecosystem now … Climate change … How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds …
Insight, 25 November 2020