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A shoal of fish
IIED launches new 'Insights' series linking business and sustainability
… ways that business and investors can contribute. Supporting positive change Laura Kelly , director of IIED’s Shaping Sustainable Markets research group , says IIED aims to support business to deliver positive change. … draw on our experience of working with communities on issues from climate change to food systems to analyse how business and investors can …
News, 02 October 2019
People standing between piles of bananas
African social movements call on UN food summit to give people back control
… way of life, and will exacerbate land degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution and the growing challenge of unplanned urbanisation. … The science that is prescribed as a solution by the UNFSS scientific group  can be described as pure natural science, with little room for …
Insight, 21 July 2021
A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting
… was infrequent and lacked impact. In March 2013 things began to change. At a stocktaking workshop in Kadoma participants from across … by the Biodiversity Office of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate. Journalists from print, radio and TV attended, taking the … biodiversity including ecosystems, species and genetic diversity. The group travelled from Mutare towards Birchenough Bridge, experiencing the …
Article, 21 March 2016
Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
… In June 2016, the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group , IIED, and the ESRC's STEPS Centre  hosted a dialogue for Least … gas emissions on track to zero.  Yamin said the Paris Agreement on climate change was a huge opportunity for the LDCs. Many small countries and … Climate change …
News, 08 July 2016
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… Hugo Slim to lead an oral history project called ‘ Listening for a change ’. He recognised clearly that too many development experts seem … demanding programme of work and collaboration. In 2001, he identified climate change as a critical issue and encouraged climate change expert … became principal consultant for the International Development Limited group and contributed to the boards of several international NGOs.  From …
Insight, 16 October 2019
Aerial view of an arid landscape. A group of people walk.
IIED at 50: be prepared to engage with young activists
… with an emphasis on participatory development, governance and climate resilience. In this conversation, they discuss the importance of … relevant. What we need to do is adapt to new challenges. Of course, climate change has been always there. People have learned to live with climate …
Article, 29 November 2021
Cover for G03489.pdf
Next steps for a Green Economy working group Notes from the Astana Green Economy Dialogue, 24-26 Nov 2011
… to play their part in establishing economic systems that reduce climate~change and other environmental burdens, and to produce higher societal … Next steps for a Green Economy working group Notes from the Astana Green Economy Dialogue, 24-26 Nov 2011 …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Three people stand talking in a street. A man, a woman and, in the middle, a young man wearing a face mask.
A just recovery from COVID-19: young people from eight African cities speak out
… of Warwick . Through video diaries and interviews, and focus group discussions, they communicated their perspectives on the pandemic … of basic services; and supporting holistic interventions, such as climate-change adaptive social protection. A call for inclusion Marginalised by …
Insight, 24 May 2022
A road full of congested traffic.
IIED and partner events at the World Urban Forum (WUF10)
… El Wardini, city of Dakar; Peter Oborn, UK Built Environment Advisory Group; Ebru Gencer, Centre for Urban Risk Reduction & Resilience; Lucy Earle, IIED Urbanisation intersects with climate change, natural disasters, conflict and displacement – and is a critical …
Event, 08 February 2020
Delegates discuss the final draft text for COP21 in Bonn (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Least Developed Countries: Paris must not be the beginning of the end
… Determined Contributions (INDCs) – the country plans to tackle climate change – have been submitted, 123 in total , which includes the European … actual implementation of the plans.  The chair of the 48-member LDC Group at the negotiations, Giza Gaspar-Martins of Angola said: "This …
News, 20 October 2015