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UN Food Systems Summit: it’s time to listen to civil society’s concerns
… policies and practice to transform our food systems   With climate chaos looming and biodiversity shrinking, we must make radical … interface for food systems – a kind of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but on food.  Who will participate? We fear it …
Insight, 22 June 2021
The opening session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) begins in Bonn, Germany, on 31 August, 2015 (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The tough journey on the road to Paris: addressing the needs of the most vulnerable
Insight, 02 September 2015
Our annual report highlights pathways to change (Photo: Olivier Girard/CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED Annual Report 2017/18
… Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in international negotiations on climate change . LDCs have most at stake, but are least able to cope with climate impacts. The LDCs were instrumental in shaping the Paris Agreement, but they remain vulnerable, they need the UN climate talks to secure tangible commitments. As part of the European …
Page, 24 October 2018
A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why social inclusion matters for green growth
… protection, and reducing inequality. The Paris Agreement on climate change is the first legal instrument with global reach designed … to action. The progressive global agreements on the SDGs and climate change provide a strong global framework for sustainable … as executive secretary of the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2006-10; Andrew Norton ([email protected]) is …
Insight, 11 August 2016
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and is at the forefront of adaptation efforts. This homestead has been designed to offer flood protection (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Sharing knowledge to climb the adaptation ladder
Insight, 03 July 2015
A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"
Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now
… But the scale, geographical and demographic extent of the global climate strikes has been huge. Employee movements within companies have … change, particularly in the tech sector. To remain relevant in this climate, companies must respond. 2 Announcing change is easy. … flag. The words #JustTransition pop up on the edge of the climate crisis discussion; they must now become central to the …
Insight, 08 December 2019
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… for our video efforts earlier this month when one of a series of climate change animations was nominated in the Charity Film Awards … and interaction. Our top 10 of the year is: 1 Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs … the series of three animations telling the devastating reality of climate change loss and damage faced by people living in the least …
Insight, 28 December 2021
REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
… the livelihoods of forest-dependent people, it is a major driver of climate change and accounts for roughly a fifth of global greenhouse gas … Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Montreal. At the 2007 COP in Bali, REDD became a key … element in the Bali Roadmap, the action plan for negotiating a new climate regime by the end of 2009. By 2008, at the most recent COP in …
Article, 14 May 2009
Participants study a map in Bangladesh. Photo: Isabelle Lemaire
Action Research on Community Adaptation in Bangladesh
… plans to report on these communities for the next 50 years or more.  Climate change is likely to hit first and hardest among the poorest and … developing countries. These communities struggle to cope with climate hazards which are being compounded by climate change. ARCAB aims … to global Adapting to climate change requires learning by doing — delivering both impacts and definitive knowledge. ARCAB brings together …
Project, 17 December 2012
Field visit as part of the Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation project, Mount Elgon, Uganda (IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Uganda
… and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and promote sustainable development. Between 2015 and … jointly implementing a project called 'Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation: strengthening the evidence and informing … will be combined with those from the 11 other countries to help show climate change policymakers when and why EbA is effective.  Mountain EbA …
Project, 15 February 2018