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UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… solutions can help poor people adapt to, and mitigate the effects of, climate change. For example, preserving trees and maintaining biodiversity can … , we have been supporting the emergence of an African Leadership Group on Biodiversity Mainstreaming which has, to date, involved working …
Article, 16 August 2013
Two people carrying containers on their heads
COVID-19 and the sites of rights resilience
… greater emphasis on socio-economic rights and on the human rights/climate change interface, and on confronting issues of socio-economic justice . … contemporary societal crises – including inequality, conflict and climate change. As reflective human rights practitioners and thinkers …
Insight, 26 May 2020
Report backs novel approach to improving forest governance
… "With forests set to take centre stage in a new global deal to tackle climate change, there is a desperate search underway for proven ways to improve … good,” says project leader and head of IIED’s Natural Resources Group, James Mayers. “That search should look at what’s been achieved by …
News, 17 August 2009
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Table of contents: PLA 66 - Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods
… generated multiple benefits, including ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change.~• How a modified form of scoring, used within a livelihoods … with fishing communities in Uganda.~• How a former bonded-labour group in Nepal have campaigned to uphold their rights of access, use and …
Publication, 01 September 2013
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Growing Forest Partnerships briefing: Sustainable forestry - connecting local to global and vice versa
… of forestry resources. As the world looks for a way to mitigate climate change, more and more money is being committed to forests. The figure …
Publication, 01 January 2011
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Child-friendly participatory research tools (PLA 60)
… Field-based action research on community-based adaptation to climate change needs to engage with all different sections of communities. Children form a significant group that is often overlooked by research and practice at community …
Publication, 01 December 2009
Indonesia meeting to show how forests can bring sustainable benefits to all
… The Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) findings are critical as governments are on the brink of … countries to avoid deforestation as part of global efforts to tackle climate change. The FGLG meeting will take place from 1-4 December. Country …
News, 02 December 2009
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… the 38 indigenous peoples within the country. This oversees three new climate change mechanisms covering: Joint mitigation and adaptation (MCMA … ) is a principal researcher in IIED's  Natural Resources Group , working on forest use and policies. …
Insight, 25 November 2014
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it says "change is in the air… with the Brundtland Report Our Common Future … for four years, collecting household data on livelihoods, assets, climate, land use, water and livestock. This research became my PhD … – which include investing in locally controlled forests , adapting to climate change , building cities that work for squatter communities , …
Insight, 22 June 2015
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Q&A: Ready for impact?
… proportions. In September, for example, the Business Roundtable – a group of nearly 200 CEOs representing the largest US companies – … corporate leaders using their immense power to drive real, positive change. And people are scrutinising businesses now more than ever. … Norton asks how a progressive sustainability manifesto can omit climate change Blog:  Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the …
Article, 07 November 2019