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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… principal researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … conventions, and have a direct positive environmental and community-level impact. The Darwin Initiative was launched at the Rio …
Event, 17 November 2018
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… Be it at the global level, through national frameworks or community based actions , new perspectives and novel solutions are the order of … to progress. But these are early days in creating a new research programme, and the initial signs are that it is one that IIED and its …
Insight, 21 March 2016
Participants in IIED's 2015 Communications Learning Week join in a session on audience mapping (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Effective policy influence with a four-point plan
… in different environments. Jane Kiiru, communications officer for the Adaptation Consortium  that Ced works with in Kenya, was also with us to … in countries across the globe, the complexity of political economies based on inter-cultural and power relations at national, local and community level, means it is very hard to understand the nuances of the …
Insight, 20 May 2015
Business models for sustainable development
… distinguishes it from its competitors. Two broad areas for possible adaptation and innovation of a business model are production and … become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership … modern energy services in the Niger Delta via small-scale community-based initiatives. The immediate objective is to catalyse the …
Article, 10 May 2010
Annual report 2007/08
… development. Featured project highlights Climate change Making adaptation planning fully democratic:  thanks to an IIED-run climate … climate adaptation. Airing ideas for greener aviation:  with the UK-based Carbon Consultancy, IIED worked out easy ways for consumers and … Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings schemes and initiatives can improve life dramatically …
Page, 23 December 2008
United Nations decision prompts potato celebration in Peru
… and return them to the communities who can use them to support local adaptation systems," said Alejandro Argumedo, director of Asociacion … director of the sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods programme at IIED agrees: "The Potato Park is a living example of a … approach to conserving genetic diversity in a dynamic way, that is based on justice and equity, and which respects, protects and preserves …
News, 31 October 2007
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
Article, 03 August 2015
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… our Sustainable Markets Group  was also designed to promote an online community, FishNet, created to bring together people with an interest in … vlogs by IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq at the 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference  in Nepal in April and at the UNFCCC climate talks …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… to help them develop solutions that work best for them. His blog was based on the editorial in the April 2018 issue of the … useful information for policy decisions. Interspersed throughout the programme were case studies of where accounts are beginning to inform …
Article, 27 December 2018
An early sunrise at COP14 in Poznan (Photo: Friends of the Earth, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
COP14 UN Climate Change Conference
… 10/12/2008 Videos Dr. Saleem Huq, director of IIED's climate change programme and member of the Nobel prize-winning IPCC team, recorded a … attended. The final session was a high-level panel on funding adaptation, chaired by IIED director Camilla Toulmin, was standing room … of 4 °C – even though most impact and adaptation research is based on 2 °C.   First Words. Now action: Time for a new deal on climate …
Event, 20 December 2008