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The sun glints on smoke above Beijing. China is on course to see overall coal consumption peak this year (Photo; GadgetDan via Creative Commons)
If the coal industry really cared about helping poor countries, it would shut itself down
… fools no-one. Camilla Toulmin ([email protected]) is Director of IIED. …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Agama Lizard, Uganda. Seven of Africa's biogeographic regions converge in Uganda, making it a country with a high level of biodiversity (Photo: Michael Sale, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting to know you: stronger relationships contribute to better biodiversity mainstreaming
Article, 21 March 2016
Women including mining engineer Judith Akorfa Buaba (centre) employed at the Dakete mine, in Ghana (Photo: Gabriela Flores Zavala)
Can mining dig rural women out of poverty in Ghana?
… a space. Amani Mhinda ([email protected]) is the executive director of Haki Madini , a Tanzanian NGO dedicated to support artisanal …
Insight, 08 March 2016
A woman explains the importance of guarding against future encroachments on her community's common land in Northern Uganda (Photo: LEMU)
Protecting land and community resources in Africa
… of collective action.  Rachael Knight ([email protected]) is director of the Community Land Protection Program at Namati , a global …
Insight, 07 March 2016
World Food Day marked by call to democratise agricultural research and ensure food sovereignty
… about a billion people remain hungry," says Farah Karimi, executive director of Oxfam-Novib. "In an ever more interdependent world, the …
News, 16 October 2010
More than 300,000 marched in New York to call for action on climate change (Photo: John Minchillo)
People power applies climate pressure
… if you ignore us! Camilla Toulin ([email protected]) is director of IIED. …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Climate Communications Day at Doha: New approaches to reach new audiences
News, 13 December 2012
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… half-decade. The online version includes a video introduction from director Camilla Toulmin and filmed interviews with staff showing how … team, such as the one written in March by communications director Liz Carlile discussing the  challenge of the "impenetrable …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Participants at the meeting establish how their NGO works with communities in DRC (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Poverty and conservation in DRC – what role for a network?
… local communities, and vice versa," says Dominique Bikaba, executive director of Strong Roots, an organisation that focuses on conservation …
Insight, 24 August 2014
A woman miner in Tanzania, who features in a film on stories of change on artisanal and small-scale mining (Image: IIED)
Best of 2017: videos
Article, 12 January 2018