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Protesters march and carry climate-related placards
IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
… Forum (24-25 September), the 2019 High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development (26 September), and New York Climate Week . The … 22 September. IIED's staff, including director Andrew Norton , led and participated in a number of events surrounding the summit, and … Wong, IIED, Sarah Nandudu, SDI; Saqib Huq, ICCCAD. Side event 1: Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) launch Location: …
Event, 23 September 2019
Rubbish and black bin bags are strewn around
Carbon offsetting: who’s really winning?
Insight, 07 July 2020
View of Monterrey, Mexico
New coalition to transform cities – and lives
… Cities account for 75% of today’s carbon emissions, and meeting global emission goals … the population is already urban. Latin American cities have recently led urban development with some radically new approaches. Curitiba in … about.” Challenges to broader uptakes of these urban transformation initiatives are many and profound. Residents of mass-produced social …
News, 10 May 2021
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
… on a range of issues that link policy, knowledge and practice for climate ambition. This year's event was part of the  Understanding … in the run-up to COP26, and how to set up a decade of action. It was led by High Level Climate Champions, benefiting from the outcomes of … need practical ways of enabling and promoting adaptation. Community-based adaptation and their innovation and use of knowledge and …
Event, 02 December 2020
Cover for 17579IIED.pdf
Multiple Pathways: case studies of sustainable agriculture in China
… pathways towards sustainable agriculture. From uncertified small community-led farmers’ associations and remote sheep-rearing societies which … large certified organic companies with national distribution, these initiatives illustrate the diverse alternative models of agriculture … Multiple Pathways: case studies of sustainable agriculture in China …
Publication, 01 December 2015
women distributing counting eggs
New narratives for a 'new normal'
… which women are cast as a vulnerable group, placing grassroots women-led scalable solutions in policymakers’ blind spot. Promoting networks, … in grassroots women’s movements have steadily built on grassroots initiatives – refining their practices, scaling them up through peer … socially marginalised communities.  It is therefore vital to sustain community networks and maintain their visibility as drivers of …
Insight, 22 July 2020
A fisher in a boat in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar
Carrots and sticks: incentives to conserve hilsa fish in Myanmar
… For Myanmar's small-scale fishing communities, the hilsa fish is a vital … a transboundary hilsa fisheries management plan.   Through research led by scientists from Yangon University, the project improved … by the recommended closed seasons, and generated support at the community level. With this local ownership, the recommended reforms …
Project, 30 October 2017
Man in a mangrove forest
Striving for better: following LDC leadership in addressing the climate crisis
Insight, 26 January 2021
Three men look out over a pond
China in the world
… a false binary choice: between China “ buying into the Western-led world order or trying to overthrow it by waging war ”. Instead, … (BRI) is pushing a wave of state-backed and private financing for infrastructure projects deep into the lands and rural communities of developing countries.   Both initiatives could have profound effects on global climate and …
Article, 01 August 2019
San Isidro Ketchi Cuisine and Craft Restaurant (SIKCCR - San Isidro) worked on their business plan (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Community forest-farm business training under way in Belize
… tenure security afforded by that ruling now creates an opportunity for the development of sustainable forest and farm businesses run by … Toledo District. Commercial organisation A Darwin Initiative project led by the Toledo Institute for Environment and Development (TIDE) , … on the conservation of pine woodland biodiversity in Belize through community fire management (PDF)  hosted a three-day business training …
Insight, 14 September 2016