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A young woman sits working at a sewing machine in a corner of a room.
Stitching with determination: stories of women garment workers in Indore, India
… the informal economy, while also helping to build their resilience to climate change. Indore as a hub of garment manufacturing Indore is an emerging … National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Global Health Research Group using UK aid from the UK government. The views expressed are those …
Article, 07 June 2022
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… the main UK parties at the meeting organized by the All Party Group for International Development and the Environment .  Opening the … told the audience, largely made up of development NGO staff, that climate change is “bad and getting worse,” and the effects are worse in Africa …
Insight, 24 May 2012
Turn REDD on its head
… from ten countries in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group. Argument about REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and … raging in Mozambique as well as Mexico last week. By the weekend the climate negotiators in Cancun had come up with an outline agreement on … about any of this. IIED facilitates the Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) and it was members of this group that met in Namaacha. The …
Insight, 14 December 2010
Solar phone charging on a Ugandan island shows even isolated areas in Africa are getting connected by mobile phones and creating demand for energy (Photo: futureatlas.com/blog/)
Transforming energy access: a conversation with Kandeh Yumkella
… and small-scale, centralised and decentralised; integrating climate change concerns into energy access debates and stimulating low-carbon … will. Yumkella has proposed the creation of an African Energy Leaders Group  to act as champions promoting transformative investment in energy …
Insight, 31 July 2014
Louder this time, ‘Turn REDD on its head!’
… processes who IIED collaborate with in the Forest Governance Learning Group concluded a year ago that national REDD strategies must be based on local, not central government, control . A year later at the climate conference in Durban, South Africa, many others are saying the … really want a mouthful. Here in Durban on 27th November a very lively group of about 50 people spent a day considering what ‘South-South …
Insight, 30 November 2011
South Africans celebrate 'Vuvuzela Day': the World Forestry Congress in Durban will discuss critical forestry issues (Photo: Dundas Football Club, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Time to dust off the vuvuzelas
… Amazon in 2010. That’s a big deal in terms of contributions to climate change. Put another way, anybody expecting to solve the world's climate … principal researcher in IIED's forest team with the Natural Resources Group . Resources / who to follow at WFC …
Insight, 04 September 2015
IIED received some warm responses to a survey on its publications carried out last year (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Feeling the love
… example, respondents listed their main publication interest areas as climate change, natural resource management, food and agriculture and … is publications and marketing manager in IIED's Communications Group. …
Insight, 11 February 2016
Independent monitoring of a consultative process for Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy and REDD
… strategy that seeks to create “a low‐deforestation, low carbon, climate‐resilient economy” that contributed to Guyana’s joint but differentiated responsibility to tackle climate change. As a draft strategy, it was always intended that what …
Project, 15 January 2010
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… Using Ecosystems and Traditional Knowledge to Help People Adapt to Climate Change: Building the Evidence Base This workshop will evaluate the … and Dilys Roe, both Senior Researcher with IIED’s Natural Resources Group  are taking part in the workshop organised by Conservation …
Event, 16 August 2012
Meceburi Forest, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
The Musketeers of development
… that can't necessarily be separated: food, energy, water, health and climate change. By securing water supply and soil quality, they are an integral … by Simon Milledge, a principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group, was originally posted on the Independent Research Forum website . …
Insight, 16 July 2014