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Roadmap for strengthening forest and farm producer organisations - policy brief
… and energy security, increase their resilience and adaptability to climate change, sustainably manage their forestlands and farms, and …
Publication, 01 July 2014
Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
Insight, 21 March 2011
High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… have been few concrete approaches put forward to move discussions on delivering SDG 14 from rhetoric to reality. Six key questions In advance … services or ecological fiscal transfers can play an enabling role in delivering SDG 14. In order for fiscal policy to play a proactive role … Dave Steinbach ( [email protected] ) is a researcher in IIED's  Climate Change research group . …
Insight, 17 January 2017
IIED is pleased to announce its new strategy for the period 2014-2019
IIED launches new five-year strategy
… on our landmark work with partners on each of four research themes: climate change, natural resources, human settlements and sustainable … key opportunities to influence change. Inclusive transitions to climate resilience and green economy International engagement for a …
News, 07 March 2014
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… commitments  — and it didn’t. Then again neither did the climate change conference in Durban in 2011 or its predecessor in … as usual' — and increased energy efficiency. It must also prioritise delivering universal access to energy, particularly access for the …
Insight, 25 June 2012
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
… This week's climate summit in New York is one of a few remaining stepping stones to the internationally binding agreement to tackle climate change expected to be agreed at a UN summit in Paris next … SciDev.Net spoke to Prakash Mathema, chair of the LDC Group at the UN climate change negotiations, about what LDCs need and how they will cope …
Article, 19 September 2014
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
… Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on combating climate change – the Paris Agreement  in 2015 have set the stage for a … new residents each year. Some of this migration is attributable to climate change – certainly the impacts of sea level rise in the … A positive agenda for healthier, more equal, greener cities.  The climate change mitigation agenda dovetails with social progress in …
Insight, 13 May 2016
A welder uses home-made equpiment in Kenya, where the Jua Kali (informal economy) thrives and can solve any problem (Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Lessons from the informal sector
… developing countries, accounting for most employment opportunities, delivering a full range of services and providing social cohesion. In … to solve any problem. But can it also provide useful lessons for delivering green growth? In Kenya's thriving informal sector, all needs … they value building coalitions and social capital. If the protracted climate change negotiations are anything to go by, we could learn a few …
Insight, 24 February 2016
A row of women sitting with baskets of freshly picked tea leaves
We need more than business as usual, to leave no one behind
… Norton asks how a progressive sustainability manifesto can omit climate change Blog:  Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the …
Insight, 10 January 2020
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… forest and farm producer organisation (FFPO) businesses that ensure climate resilient landscapes Research report Forest business incubation … forest economies, increasing rural incomes and improving climate resilience. IIED has been studying how different organisations … for poaching and other illegal activities. But progress towards delivering more equitable management is limited, with few people …
Article, 21 December 2018