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Which is the best approach when working for sustainable energy for all? (Photo: Bernard Polet, via Flickr)
How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
… so on) and investigating the role of social protection as part of delivering a sustainable service (for addressing food security, … watch is how funds from large-scale global funds , notably the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will be distributed, and how to ensure they will … posted by IDS. The first blog in the series focused on cities and the climate crisis . …
Insight, 15 December 2014
The Dolakha FSC-certified community forest user group speaking at the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013 (Photo: Leianne Rolington/IIED)
Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
… fruit trees, but fruit enterprises are better for biodiversity and climate resilience. The alliance also found that it is best to support a …
Article, 14 March 2014
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Testing REDD+ in the Beira Corridor: Who drives land use and land-use change, and why?
Publication, 01 November 2015
Jack fruit vendor spreads out their wares on the ground.
Putting informal food systems at the centre of sustainable diets
… Food Day call to make food systems more resilient to volatility and climate change, so that they can "deliver affordable and sustainable …
Insight, 16 October 2020
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… The landmark Paris climate summit agreement that aims to move countries towards a low … Key groups within the informal economy play an important role in climate change mitigation. In India, street traders and home-based …
News, 24 February 2016
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… by Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary of Norway's Ministry of Climate and Environment, also examined how to achieve efficient and equitable allocation of public and private finance for delivering the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. Policy making in practice: … La Camera, director general for Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate at the Ministry of Environment of Italy and Mao Amis, founding …
Event, 27 March 2017
Nick Robins makes a Critical Theme presentation to IIED staff in May 2014 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: How can the financial system serve a green and inclusive economy?
… implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement. An early member of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group, … he has worked since 2000 in the City, most recently as head of HSBC's climate change centre. IIED's previous Critical Theme took place in …
Event, 15 May 2014
A pastoralist dwelling in Niger. Rural communities have learned to exploit the variability of dryland environments (Photo: IIED)
The end of desertification?
… from the late 1960s to the 1990s were the most dramatic example of climate variability in the 20th century. Until recently one word – … at the time, the Sahel droughts were an early manifestation of global climate change caused by industrial air pollution, rather than … The Sahel is not an isolated case. What we now recognise as global climate change calls into question the concept of desertification as a …
Insight, 29 September 2016
In the foreground, a hotchpotch of buildings close together, towered over by large buildings in the background.
Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… programme, which seeks to put cities on a path to achieving climate justice and zero-carbon emissions by 2050. Here, IIED senior … to be able to improve access to basic services and responses to climate change. This means adaptation, but also decarbonisation. Local … integrated solutions to upgrading that also seek to respond to climate change in a vulnerable barrio. There is scope to experiment, to …
Article, 14 June 2022
Sewing on the street in Djibouti. The informal sector still plays an important role in most of the LDCs (Photo: Charles Roffey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
… the Sustainable Development Goals, IPoA, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, to name a … the emphasis on the role of the private sector both in financing and delivering development in LDCs. This has gained attention following …
Insight, 29 June 2016