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Peru’s Belen Valley is a landscape largely uninhabited by humans, but home to hummingbirds, the spectacled bear and more than 50 species native to the area (Photo: Leendeleo via Flickr)
Have your say: Enabling forest landscapes to score Sustainable Development Goals
… their implementation. Global Landscapes Forums, held alongside the UN climate negotiations, create a platform for positioning landscapes in the new international agreements on climate and sustainable development. On the panel were IIED director … strong linkages between the post-2015 sustainable development and the climate change agendas. The discussion forum started by setting the …
Event, 16 December 2014
Fresh vegetables on display for sale
IIED launches annual review of 2019
… the world to address key global challenges. The review, entitled ' Delivering change ', is being published in both digital and print … 2019-2024 strategy, Make Change Happen . The five challenges are: the climate crisis, increasing urban risk, unsustainable markets, the … of stories in this review shows how IIED, alongside our partners, is delivering the ambition we set out in our strategy. "These are just some …
News, 05 February 2020
Woman walking through a field, carrying a bag on her head.
How to green Africa from the grassroots
… adapt and prosper in the face of land shortages, urban migration and climate impacts. People get on with daily survival despite shortcomings … or international levels. At a time when COVID-19 has now joined climate change as another ‘problem without a passport’, local capacity … due to the pandemic. Already, rising temperatures and unprecedented climate variability in parts of Southern Africa, the Maghreb and Sahel …
Insight, 04 January 2021
Wind turbines on the top of a hill
Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?
… of Australia to the not-so-snowy mountains of Davos, the impacts of climate change are impossible to ignore. This week, the world is … of the Parties (COP25) in December threw cold water on hopes that the climate emergency will be a universal priority in the short term.  There … public appetite for business to take real, transparent action on climate change inspired CEO Larry Fink to sign BlackRock up to the …
Insight, 21 January 2020
Man and woman cut a tree into planks.
United in a call for higher ambition on the global biodiversity agenda
… concept of ‘nature positive’ as a parallel to ‘carbon neutral’ in the climate negotiations and in one session agreed we would like to see a … society are also calling for ambitious, collective action for nature, climate and development including (but not limited to) business, … will it be just business as usual? Critical agreements on nature and climate will not be forged until next year. But this month’s summit …
Insight, 18 September 2020
US special climate envoy Todd Stern tells journalists his views on the 'Higher Ambition Coalition'. LDC chair Giza Gaspar-Martins in second left on the panel at the press conference (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A symbolic victory on 1.5 degrees for LDC Group in Paris
… One of the remarkable things about the historic climate deal reached in Paris was that it included almost all of the key … face some of the biggest challenges in dealing with the impacts of climate change, their voices and demands are too often dismissed within the power politics of climate talks. What was different this time? IIED was privileged to …
Insight, 18 December 2015
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Trees on-farm: removing the obstacles to enterprise - A review of current climate-smart tree-based experiences in Malawi
… at about 100,000 hectares per year; and an increasingly unpredictable climate. An urgent response is required to this situation in which … on-farm: removing the obstacles to enterprise - A review of current climate-smart tree-based experiences in Malawi …
Publication, 01 March 2013
A handful of seedlings
Bringing business into the conversation on sustainable development
… faced by business and investors as they start to look at delivering positive social and environmental impacts alongside financial … bonds  – investments whose proceeds are specifically earmarked for climate and environmental projects. Pernille Holtedahl, of the firm Blue … five challenges – unsustainable markets; increasing inequality; the climate crisis; the assault on the natural world; and increasing urban …
News, 18 November 2019
Local community-based funds can help farmers in climate-sensitive areas to diversify. Mercyline Atieno got a loan for her poultry business in Kenya (Photo: T.Muchaba/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Now is the time to ensure GCF finance reaches the local level
… This week, the board of the GCF will meet to approve US$855 million in climate finance . But most of the proposals on the table will be from … Yet we know from our research at IIED  that the most effective climate finance is often directed to the local level – through … let down for the poorest countries. But the need for effective local climate finance is more urgent than ever as the United States, currently …
Insight, 03 April 2017
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Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development in Pakistan
… the ways in which the projects would be expected to deliver long-term climate resilience. Indicators were then developed to evaluate the … future national and provincial M&E systems to measure improvements in climate change resilience. … Climate change …
Publication, 01 December 2014