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COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… modern varieties; the importance of indigenous innovation systems and resource and water management systems; building on the logic that … in setting priorities is echoed in other approaches for locally-led resilience building. The event distilled practical ways forward, and … YouTube channel . Related reading: Local climate finance funding community-prioritised adaptation | Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali …
Event, 05 November 2016
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+
… their REDD+ strategies. Alongside these national government-led processes, other institutions – including NGOs and the private … such as  free, prior and informed consent , the principle that a community has the right to give or withhold its consent to proposed …
Project, 12 September 2013
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
Article, 22 December 2015
In Mozambique, government ministries for development planning and for environment work with district authorities and NGO partners to support climate adaptation at a local scale
Monitoring and evaluation in Mozambique shows how to link local and national climate adaptation
Insight, 28 February 2014
Business models for sustainable development
… become flashpoints for conflict and a focus for climate concerns, community forestry could be coming into its own. Collective ownership … to assess environmental and social issues related to supply chain management in the oil and gas sector in Kazakhstan and the Russian … into much-needed income. Many development agencies opt for technology-led solutions that fail to ‘take’. Participatory approaches that keep …
Article, 10 May 2010
2015 is a critical year for sustainable development: IIED is tracking the route to Paris and COP21 in December (Image: IIED)
Walking along the road to Paris
Insight, 15 June 2015
Francisco Sagasti (Photo: CADE Peru via Flickr)
Negotiating a fair future at COP20
Insight, 28 November 2014
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
Article, 10 October 2016
Annual report 2007/08
… Human settlements Supporting slum dwellers’ savings plans:  community savings schemes and initiatives can improve life dramatically … round the world. Natural resources Getting to the root of fair forest management:  forests are globally important for climate, biodiversity … developing countries. Cultivating a just global food system:  an IIED-led consortium of researchers and development practitioners unearthed …
Page, 23 December 2008