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Experts available at Financing for Development conference
… event, 'Unlocking transformative financing for renewable energy and climate resilience in Africa: from evidence to widespread replication', … IIED director, and Nanki Kaur, principal researcher in the IIED Climate Change Group, will be available to talk on the following areas: … poverty, inequality, participation, natural resource governance and climate change. He was previously director of research at the Overseas …
News, 13 July 2015
A carpenter bee
Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal
… loss, and states clearly the actions needed to avoid it. Unlike climate change, biodiversity loss is not yet widely perceived as an … approaches to improving livelihoods, conservation and climate action are attainable, and where trade-offs are inevitable these … challenging that may seem in the current global context.  Next to climate change, the destruction of the world’s ecosystems and wildlife …
Insight, 16 November 2018
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
Champion of urban climate action Debra Roberts will deliver IIED's 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture. Click the image to apply to attend the event (Image: IIED)
Jack of all trades, master of the urban agenda
… soon moved to local government, pioneering work on biodiversity and climate change adaptation in the urban arena. She now heads up the … South Africa, while also co-chairing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 2 on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability … rapidly growing cities, diminishing natural resources and a changing climate. But while frustration may have driven her into that space, she …
News, 14 September 2016
A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
… 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn. One delegate provided a very personal view of … described how the panel she had been invited to join – on how to get climate finance to local communities – was cut short before she could … You can watch a playlist of all our reports from the 2017 climate talks . Recording different voices: food and agriculture in …
Article, 12 January 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… 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 … (ANDES) to contribute positioning and mainstreaming EbA within climate and development policies. By working with the government and a …
Project, 04 September 2018
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… workers living in the global South – are becoming more precarious as climate change and overfishing reshape the risks they face. Almost 90% … this stress increases the vulnerability of the fisheries sector to climate change .  Social protection and labour programmes can help …
Insight, 06 June 2022
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… Greta Thunberg April:  IIED director Andrew Norton hailed the 2019 climate protests as a moment of hope.  Norton said big shifts in world … happen without a major challenge from motivated citizens. Raising climate ambition needs citizens to mobilise and demand action. The climate protests by Extinction Rebellion and the school strike movement …
Article, 27 December 2019
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Coffee and carbon offsets for smallholders: can carbon financing promote cleaner coffee in Nicaragua?
… that upscaling these actions can have major significance for national climate change strategies. …
Publication, 01 October 2015
A shoal of fish
IIED launches new 'Insights' series linking business and sustainability
News, 02 October 2019