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For the first time, IIED has produced a bespoke online annual report (Photo: IIED/We are Tangerine)
2014 annual report: online and in print
… It is the first time the institute has produced a bespoke online version of … we extend our thanks to all of them for working with us to make change possible. Africa Jane Goodall Institute , Uganda Network for … in Zimbabwe Trust , Zimbabwe The Gambian Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water Resources, Parks and Wildlife , The Gambia …
News, 11 November 2014
Group of people in discussion seated at a table
Tricky questions and frank discussions: a participatory forum on protracted displacement in Afghanistan
… Setting up a municipal dialogue is not the usual way of working with officials in Afghanistan – … been displaced by decades of conflict. Afghanistan is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world and its people are … that the urban environment provides an opportunity for lasting change. She has seen returnees from Pakistan contribute their carpet …
Insight, 10 June 2021
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… Accord (a global framework for financing sustainable development) is out.  If this was the first document you had read about future … agencies and the private sector. But who has to act – to change so fundamentally what is currently achieved? And to meet the … capacity to invest and to implement "resilient infrastructure and climate-friendly policies and investments". But where is the …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Isilda Nhantumbo, Bright Sibale, and Duncan Macqueen exchange ideas at a Forest Governance Learning Group Learning Event in Mozambique. Photo: Leianne Rolington
Private sector involvement with REDD+
… sustainably managing or enhancing forests, as a means of mitigating climate change. REDD+ evolved rapidly in several countries supported through … engagement in REDD+. Some maintain that early engagement is important to inform the design of REDD+ architecture at a global …
Project, 12 September 2013
UN recognises IIED climate-change partner as Champion of the Earth
… director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), is a scientist, author, policy advisor, teacher and consultant to many … most vulnerable people. His recent work, focusing on the challenge of climate change, has included being a lead author with the Intergovernmental … Climate change … UN recognises IIED climate-change partner as Champion of the Earth …
News, 28 January 2008
A proper technological integration would make feasible the implementation of more micro-grids such as this one, pictured, on Chile's border with Bolivia (Photo: Boris Lopicich)
What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?
… difficult to access enough funding sources for renewable energy. This is the case in Latin America and South East Asia, as a recent report … can also help avoid future carbon emissions in the battle against climate change. Project-level barriers and innovation strategies There are a …
Insight, 24 November 2015
Pastoralists pull water from a well near Denan in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for their camels. (Photo: Andrew Heavens, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
… livelihoods under increasingly unpredictable conditions due to climate change.                It shows that, far from being outmoded and uneconomic, pastoralism is highly dynamic and intricately linked to the modern world , … Climate change … Drylands: building climate resilience, productivity and equity …
Project, 17 December 2012
Children go to school on boat in flood-prone Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B Akash/Panos
Least developed countries lead on low-carbon resilience
… As the world waited for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to release its latest report last month, the climate economist … other countries that may develop such strategies in the future. This is something I have been looking at  through IIED's work on Drivers for … Climate change …
Insight, 16 October 2013
What would sustainability in the North mean for development in the South?
… if they are to assume their responsibilities for mitigating climate change. But what consequences would this have for the global South? Will … or not they should embrace moves towards sustainability. But there is another issue that is often overlooked: the inadvertent affects on … Climate change …
Insight, 08 July 2010
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The origins and evolution of the conservation-poverty debate: a review of key literature, events and policy processes
… over biodiversity remain marginal compared to the current focus on climate change. But it is within the climate change agenda, and particularly the escalation of …
Publication, 01 January 2008