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Three asks for the G7 leaders
… With the G7 summit opening in Cornwall two weeks today, IIED director Andrew Norton calls on world leaders by video message to commit …
News, 28 May 2021
Debra Roberts makes a powerful presentation in the opening session of the 2018 Development & Climate Days (Photo: Alex Wynter/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
"Half a degree matters" – D&C Days focuses on IPCC special report on global temperature-rise scenarios
News, 09 December 2018
One women holds a tree while another digs into the soil with a shovel, surrounded by green trees and foliage
New thought-provoking blog series scrutinises dominant approaches to resolving the nature and climate crises
… own forest and what they’re doing to stop it Joe Eisen, executive director of Rainforest Foundation UK , and Blaise Mudodosi, coordinator …
News, 20 October 2021
Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)
New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
… as an opportunity for networking. Speakers: Chair:   Liz Carlile , director, IIED Communications Group Panellists: Caroline Moser , … social anthropologist and social policy specialist David Dodman , director, IIED Human Settlements Group  Alex Norodom , coordinator, IIED …
News, 31 January 2018
Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at European Development Days 2015
… Date: Thursday, 4 June A high-level Bangladeshi delegation led by the director general of the Department of Fisheries discussed the use of … session on the EDD website . Speakers included: Dr Syed Arif Azad, director general, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock of Bangladesh Mr Zahid Habib, project director, Hilsa Conservation Project, Bangladesh Mr Kaisir Hasan, …
Event, 03 June 2015
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IIED at London Climate Action Week, June/July 2021
Event, 28 June 2021
Delegates at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru. (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
An ‘historic opportunity’ to reduce poverty and emissions to zero to be highlighted by #zerozero campaign
… to the joint statement by Dr Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre; Sam Bickersteth, chief executive of CDKN; Camilla Toulmin, director of IIED; and Kevin Watkins, director of Overseas Development Institute (ODI). "Effective climate …
News, 04 December 2014
Professor Rashid Sumaila addresses interested marine specialists from research institutes, the private sector and international organisations at Fish Night 5 (Photo: Zaiza Khan/IIED)
Fish Night 5: How subsidies are not always beneficial equally to fish and people
… fisheries and oceans issues, and Professor Sumaila, professor and director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit in the Global …
Event, 17 October 2018
Peru’s Belen Valley is a landscape largely uninhabited by humans, but home to hummingbirds, the spectacled bear and more than 50 species native to the area (Photo: Leendeleo via Flickr)
Have your say: Enabling forest landscapes to score Sustainable Development Goals
… on climate and sustainable development. On the panel were IIED director Camilla Toulmi n, Paula Caballero, senior director of Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice at the World Bank, Peter Holmgren, director general of CIFOR, Sonia María González Molina, the director …
Event, 16 December 2014
A parrot looking out of a cardboard box in a shopping bag
IIED calls for more attention on effective community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade
… Room E – (120) Chair: Dr. Cheryl Case, head of delegation, deputy director, International, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural … Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science;  …
News, 15 August 2019