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“Protecting and promoting the rights of indigenous people benefits us all”
… gave the example of indigenous peoples in Peru who are responding to climate change by reintroducing native potato varieties and so are “helping to … Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity Ad Hoc Technical Group on biodiversity and climate change . Yet, as Ban Ki-moon went on …
Insight, 09 June 2011
Women learning how to install and maintain solar home systems in the rural town of Bogra, northern Bangladesh (Photo: ILO, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five challenges for Least Developed Countries in the post-2015 era
… The Paris Agreement , the strongest statement for some time on climate change action, was signed. But if the aspirations in them are to be … STEPS Centre and the Least Developed Countries Independent Experts Group , we discussed how this might happen. Here are five challenges …
Insight, 28 June 2016
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FGLG Malawi Policy Brief 4: Channelling REDD+ finance toward sustainable rural livelihoods in Malawi
… Malawi is among the most vulnerable countries on earth to climate change, and deforestation at 3.49% between 2001-2009 has all but … cover. This policy brief by the Malawi Forest Governance Learning Group assesses whether REDD+ finance could turn that around. …
Publication, 01 July 2011
Construction workers build a hotel in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Credit: Overseas Development Institute / Antony Robbins (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en_GB)
Time to hear LDC voices on Post-2015 development goals
… leadership over the last decade in international debates around climate change, trade, debt and other issues. As Achala Abeysinghe writes in a … an influential bloc at the UN climate change negotiations. This LDC Group has effectively pushed to bring issues like climate finance and …
Insight, 10 December 2013
Marisa Carmargo presents approaches to equity in forest governance: Lessons for safeguard development at an event at COP20 in Lima (Photo: Donal Yeang via Flickr)
Why the private sector must be included in efforts to curb deforestation
… for farmers, but also help with adaptation and mitigation against climate change. It can deliver increased productivity, but also improved … we need to acknowledge that the private sector is not a homogeneous group. It includes farmers, small businesses, large corporations and … Climate change …
Insight, 05 December 2014
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
… But how can such a transformation be possible with so little change suggested in the national and global frameworks and funding … people whose high consumption lifestyles are driving anthropogenic climate change. And they include a billion urban dwellers living in … ) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 08 September 2015
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SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology
… Based Adaptation www.southsouthnorth.org SouthSouthNorth SSN Group includes organisations around the world network-based non-profit … Organisations share two decades of experience in fields of: climate change, sustainable development, sustainable energy, poverty reduction, … Climate change …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Informal food vendors in Mathare, Nairobi. Understanding food consumption and how food systems work is essential to support food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
Urbanisation, rural-urban transformations and food systems
… to ensure that in the process of urbanisation, and in the context of climate change, equity be ensured for both rural and urban people and areas?   …
Project, 31 August 2016
IIED will be participating in a range of event at Habitat III, the global UN summit on urban issues
IIED at Habitat III: event listing
… and managed, and their role as drivers of sustainable development and climate change goals. Conference objectives The UN General Assembly agreed that … director Andrew Norton , members of IIED's Human Settlements research group  and their research partners attended the conference. IIED and …
Event, 20 October 2016
Two women talking to each other at a crowded event.
Strengthening local voices in the governance of food systems and the environment
… large research institutes. Similarly, national and global debates on climate change strategies around agrofuels and agricultural development have had … from decision-making processes aimed at mitigating, and adapting to, climate change and the impacts of agro-fuels on food security and the …
Project, 01 September 2011