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More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?
… Adaptation Plans (NAP) Expo for Africa organised by Least Developed Countries Expert Group of the UNFCCC – linking top-down national … and invest their own budgets in line with these priorities too. Developing approaches that use climate information for local scenario … if the emergency could have been prevented. How climate risks need to be integrated can be challenging to articulate at a national …
Insight, 16 July 2018
A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.
Legal empowerment as action research
… approaches aim to shift power by bridging research and action and developing new ways to engage with the law. Such ‘action research’ is … the usual data collection parameters. In projects spanning several countries, conventional research favours uniform approaches to ensure … cycles that often come with donor-funded projects. Action-researchers need to design interventions that are flexible, take account of …
Insight, 11 January 2022
Earth from space
Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true
… time – achieving environmental and social justice – cannot be met by countries acting alone or separately. A decade and a half before James … extension of international authority that we may fail to sense the need for dedicated and committed action over the whole field of … of vaccinations around the world betrays a continuing inability to act with solidarity – but also with basic common sense – in relation to …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Woman walking through a vegetable garden. A pond behind her.
D&C Days 2021: five pathways for adaptation, resilience and action
Article, 12 November 2021
The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.
Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia
… small, either. They average at around US$5 million . Especially for countries which, like Colombia, are struggling to find funds to deal … over the use of the páramo and surrounding areas.  The Santos governments (2010-18) wished to protect the páramos , but multinational … site) – the proposal is now with the Chamber of Representatives.  The developing situation reinforces the need for analysing the state as a …
Insight, 21 December 2020
Four people sat around a table speaking into microphones
The trouble with growth: Make Change Happen podcast episode 4
… greenhouse gas emissions, failing to count the cost to vulnerable countries. In fact, damaging climate shocks can even count as ‘positive’ … Growth reimagined Many of the least developed countries desperately need growth. It can be a good thing if designed to benefit the poorest … is around the trajectory lower income nations take as they grow. Developing countries have a relatively clean slate in comparison to the …
Article, 11 March 2020
Residents of an informal settlement in Pune, India, discuss the results of a survey and how best to upgrade their homes and settlement, guided by Mahila Milan, a grassroots network formed by savings groups of women slum and pavement dwellers (Photo: SPARC)
Wanted: Urban data revolution for post 2015 sustainable development goals
… data that does exist is often so poor as to be useless. We therefore need a data revolution, one that informs local action and that draws on … agency responsible for water supplies. In most low- and middle-income countries you will have no idea which citizens lack provision for water … How is it that such basic data are not available? And why do governments and international agencies continue to overlook this fact? …
Insight, 16 April 2014
Locally led urban development: an experiment in change
… there have been many donor-led attempts to encourage more accountable governments, they have had little success. This programme shows that … build on communities' existing strengths and give them the tools to act, negotiate and form new relationships, you can make change … up. We must trust ourselves and build community processes in our countries. We have solutions for all our problems. We are the solution. …
Page, 19 October 2011
People serving food
Podcast: Improving climate budgeting during COVID-19
News, 05 June 2020
Indigenous women in Bangladesh's Lawachara National Park collecting wood for building (Photo: Fabian Lambeck, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Three ‘E’s to guide the post-2020 biodiversity roadmap
… meeting begins the two-year countdown to Beijing when more than 190 countries will adopt the post-2020 global biodiversity roadmap, setting … into a substance Everyday life : ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis; habitual But how can these … been conducting scenario-building workshops as part of a process of developing ‘ Multiscale scenarios for nature futures ’. Links between …
Insight, 06 November 2018