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Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… equipping and raising awareness of IWRM and the effects of climate change, especially among vulnerable groups Reducing pressure on …
Project, 16 February 2018
Turn REDD on its head
… raging in Mozambique as well as Mexico last week. By the weekend the climate negotiators in Cancun had come up with an outline agreement on …
Insight, 14 December 2010
A large group of people sit under a tree and talk.
We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad
… for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Department of Energy and Climate change ) favour a development approach built on the leverage …
Insight, 02 October 2012
Two rice terraces with a small forest growing between them in Nepal.
Nepal: Forestry and agriculture and the story of their fake divorce
… Forestry Programme (MFP) , aims to reduce poverty and tackle climate change by working together with a range of groups who are … – expressed their voluntary commitment to further discuss ways of delivering sustainable forest management through agroforestry. The group …
Insight, 18 July 2013
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… aimed to: Articulate the vital role of PAs in conserving nature while delivering essential ecosystem services Position protected areas within … will demonstrate nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change, health and supporting human life. The work of IIED … conserves 1,460 varieties of potato for food security and climate adaptation, this model is now being scaled up to set up similar …
Event, 12 November 2014
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… from finance and poverty alleviation to ecosystem preservation and climate change. It picks up on a large number of issues and proposals …
Insight, 13 January 2012
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… etc. When sustainable forest management efforts to mitigate climate change evolved into REDD+, my optimism that something …
Insight, 15 September 2011
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… in late October to discuss the national biodiversity plan and the climate change plan and how to link up initiatives such as implementing … which they can share shortly: Valuation of ecosystem services  Climate change and biodiversity Mainstreaming biodiversity in other …
Article, 09 July 2013
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… in late October to discuss the national biodiversity plan and the climate change plan and how to link up initiatives such as implementing … which they can share shortly: Valuation of ecosystem services  Climate change and biodiversity Mainstreaming biodiversity in other …
Article, 21 March 2014