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Protesting people march holding a banner
Q&A: Successful social mobilisation for land rights in Nepal
Article, 28 February 2020
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso
Project, 02 January 2019
Man cycling in an arid landscape
When public finance shrinks, what are the priorities for climate action?
Insight, 28 March 2021
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… Fatima Denton is director of the Special Initiatives Division at the UN Economic … but explains why more work is needed if women are to see real change in their everyday lives. Are you seeing a movement towards more … highly exposed, the stakes are increasingly high – issues such as climate change, health, sanitation, education and security. In Africa, …
Article, 08 March 2018
The Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many informal settlements are built on steep slopes, exposing them to landslides (Photo: Outdoor Life, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change?
Insight, 06 March 2018
Delegates at CBA12 in Malawi gather around a table and write on a document
CBA13: galvanising locally-based adaptation in a crunch year for climate action
Insight, 22 January 2019
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
… Each year international negotiators gather for global talks on climate change at the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations … trust between both developed and developing country negotiators. IIED is a lead partner in the initiative , together with  Oxford Climate … Climate change … UN climate change conference (COP24) …
Event, 02 December 2018
An image of youth climate leader Greta Thunberg on a mural, with her speech: "You all come to us young people for hope. This is all wrong"
Development and Climate Days 2019
Event, 08 December 2019
Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.
Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city
… VCB: From my perspective the main barrier to participation is the persistence of epistemic injustice in participatory contexts. In … Exploring these questions is extremely important in the context of climate-related hazards and greater intensity of disasters.   Q: Have … of participation fluctuates over time as needs and circumstances change. Preparedness to take part is embedded in local experiences of …
Article, 10 December 2021
Participants in the gender and environmental change workshop discuss REDD+ (Photo: Lucile Robinson/IIED)
Making gender equality a global and local reality
… In 2012, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognised the need for a more balanced representation … women's active participation, leadership, freedom of choice and voice is increasingly being recognised in development-related fields. For … Climate change …
Insight, 21 May 2014