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The community owners of a furniture factory pose for a photo
Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
… by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), is helping mitigate climate change – although both are important points. Rather, it is that … in almost all forest landscapes, they could play an important role in delivering the SDGs (including climate change action). The FFF has recently launched Phase II to help …
Insight, 10 September 2018
Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion
Insight, 05 February 2016
Two women walking in a slum
COVID-19: on the front line where crisis meets normal
… Making room for risk This is about unpredictability and risk in delivering change. The poorest communities on the front line of any crisis – be that a global pandemic or climate change – live and work by breeching the line between legality … communities in a world where the threat of pandemics or dangerous climate change looms, we must decide what level of risk we can take on …
Insight, 16 April 2020
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… to IPLCs continues.   The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris climate agreement, and New York Declaration on Forests suggest change is …
Insight, 14 July 2020
50 years
IIED at 50: protecting people and planet for half a century
… sustainable development movements, including the drives for global climate justice, grassroots sustainable urbanisation and an inclusive … Nepal that combines policy, research and capacity building to bring climate change action to the local level. The third featured AB … of us? IIED trustee Alicia Pérez-Porro talks to Mary Robinson about climate justice and the urgent action IIED and all of us must take in …
Article, 08 June 2021
Villagers walking back to their village, Mozambique (Image: Mike Goldwater)
IIED Annual Report 2016/17: a focus on impact
… and the very real differences that IIED and its partners are making." Delivering impact across four research areas The annual report sets out … finance flows. IIED works to support  fair and equitable solutions to climate change . We worked with the group of Least Developed Countries … and local governments in Kenya, Tanzania, Mali and Senegal to improve climate planning. This year has seen increasing buy-in to our approach …
Page, 27 October 2017
Three people sat around a table speaking into microphones
Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3
… funded the podcast, on a project exploring the pro-poor planning of climate resilience in marginalised neighbourhoods, so we know the will … community , including better housing, access to services and improved climate resilience. And it is this kind of work – the work of …
Article, 04 February 2020
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Christiana Figueres: 2012 Barbara Ward Lecture on an 'energy revolution' (1 Birdcage Walk, London)
… Figueres, executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, delivered the fourth Barbara Ward Lecture at 1 Birdcage …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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Green China: Chinese insights on environment and development
… natural resource base. This means rethinking links between energy and climate change and land and water use. But changing institutions, policy … world’s biggest reforestation programme, as well as China’s role in climate negotiations. Clear ideas are presented on what needs to change …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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