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The Independent Expert Group has produced a series of publications (Image: IIED)
The work of the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
Article, 07 August 2015
Residents of Sitio San Roque, Philippines, watch a demolition team tear down their houses during an eviction (Photo: Alamy)
Briefing: Will Habitat III produce an effective "new urban agenda?"
… and chair of the Board of Trustees of Children Change Children, a UK-based NGO that supports Colombian excluded youth-focused NGOs. Prior to … London. He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on … adaptation, urban livelihoods in the context of climate change and community-based environmental management. His work has a particular …
Event, 05 May 2016
Prakash Mathema speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th annual conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA8) held in Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2014 (Photo: IIED)
Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
… at a UN summit in Paris next year. At the same time, the global community is negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will … only lead to greater adverse effects, increasing need for climate adaptation, as well as residual and permanent loss and damage in LDCs … South-South cooperation , and by ensuring that partnerships are based on demand and not supply.   LDCs are often supportive of targets …
Article, 19 September 2014
A fishing boat and cruise liner cross paths outside Zakynthos Harbour (Photo: Robert Wallace, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The blue economy and maritime security in Africa: why now?
… was held to garner ideas and ignite discussion ahead of the Lomé Conference , which aims to put in place an "African strategy for the … to focus attention on critical enablers and pathways to ocean-based economy the continent aspires to achieve. Africa's dependence on … align Africa's maritime security with climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions in the continent and beyond.  Essam Yassin …
Insight, 13 October 2016
A woman holds up woven baskets
Nominating your outstanding women in development
Article, 15 June 2020
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… As UK Prime Minister David Cameron prepared to host an international conference to tackle the booming illegal transnational trade in … of the LDCs as the summit's "unsung heroes".   Ecosystem- and community-based adaptation: learning from natural resource management   As …
Article, 29 December 2014
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… organizations, business, UN agencies and social organisations, the conference aims to improve how our natural environment is managed for … evaluate the evidence base and examine the emerging role of ecosystem-based adaptation, agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge. Krystyna … in this session: Adapting agriculture with traditional knowledge Community Biocultural Protocols: Building Mechanisms for Access and …
Event, 16 August 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… (the figure shown gives the regional picture). The Habitat III conference in Quito in October will seek to set out a 'new urban … many of the themes of the recent 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation  held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the theme of …
Insight, 13 May 2016
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
… adaptation and mitigation, and previews the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA). The main challenge is whether to distinguish …
Article, 22 December 2015
Annual report 2006/07
… NGOs, academia and the media for the second international workshop on community-based adaptation in Dhaka. Turning the climate lens on Latin America:  … IIED’s Development and Adaptation Days during the UN climate change conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2006. Human settlements Rising …
Page, 16 April 2008