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How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?
… a displacement crisis has become protracted. Speakers Lucy Earle  is director of the Human Settlements research group at IIED and lead for … the Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration and Society, and co-director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab (MGL) …
Event, 27 September 2023
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Connecting for common goals: exploring 50 years of IIED and sustainable development
… equity, and the growing calls for restoration. With a preface by director Andrew Norton, the report is not only a thoughtful marker of … podcast , alongside Camilla Toulmin , drylands expert and former IIED director, and Saleemul Huq , director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development …
News, 26 May 2022
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Climate funds need to prioritise local action
…   In delivering IIED’s 2024 Barbara Ward Lecture , the executive director of the Green Climate Fund, Mafalda Duarte, highlighted the need …
News, 17 June 2024
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Countries missing deadlines to submit climate plans more than half the time
… overall 59% of deadlines were missed. Tom Mitchell, IIED’s executive director, said: “This is yet more evidence that governments just aren’t …
News, 19 September 2023
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Alliance of least developed countries, Small Island Developing States to create national facilities to address loss and damage
… they will support the alliance by committing funding. Saleemul Huq, director of ICCCAD, said: “People seeing their homes flooded and their … the coffers of the loss and damage fund.” Tom Mitchell, executive director of IIED, said: “Loss and damage looks different for every …
News, 05 March 2023
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Loss and damage scholarship created in memory of Prof. Saleemul Huq
News, 05 December 2023
Head and shoulders photo of a woman alongside the words: "Green Climate Fund executive director Mafalda Duarte" and "Barbara Ward Lecture 2024"
Global climate finance leader to deliver 2024 Barbara Ward Lecture
… women in development, welcomes Mafalda Duarte , the executive director of the Green Climate Fund, to share her aspirations to …
News, 19 March 2024
Professor Jim Skea delivering a speech.
IIED to host chair of IPCC
… policymakers and other stakeholders.”  Tom Mitchell, IIED’s executive director, said: “IIED is ready to support Professor Skea and the vital …
News, 26 July 2023
Multifaceted approach best way for vulnerable countries to overcome climate losses and damage
… 27 July at 2pm. Speakers will include: Jemima Gordon-Duff , deputy director for international climate change for the Scottish government  Saleemul Huq , director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development … (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh  Emeline Siale Ilolahi a, executive director of the Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental …
News, 27 July 2022
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Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 17
Article, 21 June 2022