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A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… project managers (I can say that because I am one). Their function is to support the technical monitoring, accounting and reporting which … REDD+ workshop , the Global Landscape Forum and the Development & Climate Days , where I had many fruitful discussions on monitoring … that effective approaches to monitoring are key to achieving climate change adaption, mitigation and sustainable development objectives. …
Insight, 07 January 2016
A baby orangutan clings to its mother as she hangs from a branch
Making the market work for nature while helping to tackle poverty
… The rich diversity of life in all its forms is under threat. Despite years of work to protect it, this destructive … buyers who want to improve and protect biodiversity or tackle climate change. Biocredits would provide a financial incentive to increase …
Insight, 03 March 2020
Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
News, 08 July 2016
Vast quantities of logs being unloaded in the port of Zhangjiagang, South-East China. Estimates suggest timber imports travelling through Zhangjiagang increased by more than 60% in 2017 (Photo: Simon Lim/IIED)
Crucial agreement with China could save Mozambique’s forests
… in high value processing within Mozambique and better law enforcement is crucial to stop the destruction.   Alarmingly, 219,000 hectares of … implications for biodiversity and for mitigating the impacts of climate change. It is also significant for the state of Mozambique’s economy and …
Insight, 14 August 2018
Biodiversity illustration
A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
… about the livelihoods of local communities. The publication is still a widely cited and influential document, and the research was a … biodiversity work ranges from agricultural biodiversity to apes, from climate change to conservation, and from market mechanisms to mainstreaming. It …
Article, 16 August 2013
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus spoke at the Dhaka adaptation conference. Yunus pioneered the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, and in 2006 won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating economic and social development from below (Photo: IISD Reporting Services)
3rd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA3)
… The Global Initiative on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (GICBA)  promoted  community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate … held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 18-24 February 2009. Climate change is already a critical issue for Bangladesh, and the country is leading … Climate change …
Article, 25 February 2009
Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities
News, 16 May 2012
Clearing forest for a palm oil plantation in Borneo (Photo: Rainforest Action Network, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Commodity cycles, economic treaties and pressures on land rights
… identity, political power and the collective sense of justice. Land is also a recurring source of conflict. So addressing land rights issues … and prices will remain higher than before 2007-08.  Socioeconomic change at both national and global levels is driving this trend: … urbanisation drives dependence on agricultural commodities, and climate change can exacerbate bottlenecks in agricultural supplies.  In …
Insight, 25 May 2016
Men practice an oral testimony interview during workshops in Karachi, Pakistan (see Article 4 of PLA 63) Photo credit: Panos, London
Telling stories: the uses and misuses of communicating for change
… Stories matter. The first session of the Climate Communications Day for journalists and media specialists at the … – it also has a personal angle. The trick, to quote Randy Olson , is getting fact and emotion together to tell an engaging story. How the … and what medium we are using.  I was reminded about how our stories change depending on who we’re talking to when watching a play put on by …
Insight, 06 December 2011
Seydou Kassojue, 47, has a garden plot where he grows lettuce close to the Sélingué dam in Mali. The Global Water Initiative has been working with smallholders in the area since 2009 to find out how the dam affects the livelihoods of local farmers and what improvements could be made (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Can dams work for local communities alongside national good?
… are often the subject of negative headlines, due to their impact on local sustainable development. The Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West … security and energy needs, particularly in the context of increasing climate variability. In West Africa there are 150 existing dams and 40 … under discussion at this year's World Water Week, the them of which is ' water for development '.  Water is seen as central to all the …
News, 18 August 2015