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Protesters march and carry climate-related placards
IIED and partner events at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
… future' event on Sunday, 22 September. IIED's staff, including director Andrew Norton , led and participated in a number of events …
Event, 23 September 2019
Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)
Cameron can assure a lasting legacy
… know this is right. Dr Camilla Toulmin ([email protected]) is director of IIED for another three weeks. This is the latest in a series …
Insight, 07 June 2015
Washing in Kolkata. Urban poor groups must engage with city government and utility companies in order to become drivers for change (Photo: Wolfgang Sterneck, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Can global funds be accountable at the local level?
… poor themselves. Sheela Patel ( [email protected] ) is founder and director of SPARC, a Mumbai-based NGO that has worked with and supported …
Insight, 09 August 2016
Cover for G00443.pdf
The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation Managing Nature's Wealth for Society's Health
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for G00464.pdf
MDG3-ch6.qxd 31/8/05 10:20 am Page 129 129 6 Supporting locally determined food systems: the role of local organizations in farming, environment and people's access to food
… points of the food chain ­ from seed to plate. 1. Michel Pimbert is Director of the Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… so we looked inside our own country instead”, said Oscar Sanchez, Director of the Environmental Services department at FONAFIFO . After … scheme, called PSA SOLIDARIO” , said Carlos Herrera, Executive Director of FUNDECOR. This instrument sells carbon credits to national …
Insight, 26 June 2012
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
… international mechanism on loss and damage at Warsaw. Saleemul Huq is director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development …
Insight, 13 November 2013
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… Change research group ;  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group .  This visit was …
Insight, 21 July 2016
CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
… you CBA, and looking forward to much more! Pablo Suarez is associate director for research and innovation at the Red Cross/Red Crescent …
Insight, 28 April 2015
Prime Minister David Cameron has helped the UK provide global leadership on addressing climate change. But he has decided to resign after the European Union referendum vote, and there are fears that the UK will become more insular (Photo: Russell Watkins/DFID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change
… for those around the world. Clare Shakya ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Climate Change research group . …
Insight, 01 July 2016