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An excerpt from the Challenging the constitutionality of adverse laws: Success stories from Indonesia webinar
Striking down adverse investment laws: success stories from Indonesia
… society organisations (CSOs) are taking action to make investments in natural resources fairer and more sustainable in order to protect the rights of … piece of legislation to challenge. This often relies on bringing a group of legal and human rights experts together. What's more, building … Natural resource management …
Insight, 25 March 2014
Adapting to climate change in Bangladesh
Insight, 30 March 2011
South Africa President Jacob Zuma speaks to China counterpart Xi Jinping at the FOCAC summit in Sandton, Johannesburg in 2015. China is increasingly influential in Africa (Photo: GCIS/GovernmentZA, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
CSR practices of Chinese businesses in the global South
… Xiaoxue Weng  ( [email protected] )  is a researcher in IIED's Natural Resources Group . The discussion paper Chinese businesses in Africa: perspectives … Natural resource management …
Insight, 31 March 2016
Cover for 13613FIIED.pdf
Options pour l’incubation durable d’entreprises forestières communautaires en République démocratique du Congo (RDC)
Publication, 01 September 2019
Cover for 13616IIED.pdf
Women’s empowerment through collective action: How forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference
… people who live on less than USD1.25 per day and who depend on natural resources for employment, some 829 million are women and girls – as … markets for women, positive spill-over effects in both household and group businesses, and access to social services such as vocational …
Publication, 01 June 2020
Green shoots and REDD herrings
… estimate, admittedly ‘on the back-ofan- envelope’, indicates a global natural capital loss of US$2.5 trillion a year, of which forests … of dollars being wiped off the world’s ‘virtual economy’, but this natural capital is real, and its loss is permanent. Underlying this … capability to manage them well, but often they do not. The Rights and Resources Initiative, which analyses this, notes that small gains have …
Insight, 15 October 2009
Moving climate talks forward: new parliamentary group consider the options
News, 30 November 2010
The Roșia Poieni copper mine in Romania, one of the largest copper reserves in Europe (Photo: Cristian Bortes via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Investor-state arbitration: Lessons from civil society advocacy
… citizens' groups are taking action to change how investments in natural resources are made – to protect the rights of citizens and to protect … environment.  It is increasingly clear that this citizen advocacy on natural resource investments cannot ignore investor-state arbitration – … Natural resource management …
Insight, 19 May 2014
A man kneeling on the ground holding a hose
Climate adaptation needs urgent philanthropy support
… Yet communities suffering most often have the least access to the resources they need to build resilience. Even if the money pledged for … that increase resilience and follow climate justice principles seem a natural fit for climate philanthropists, who typically have a strong … resilience is possible In 2021, 15 countries formed the Champions Group on Adaptation Finance to increase and improve finance for …
Insight, 31 May 2023
The voices of women involved in farming and fisheries, such as these in Bangladesh, are often lost in decision-making (Photo: CBFM-Fem Com Bangladesh/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Does gender balance improve forestry and fishery management?
… in women's and men's access to, control over, and use of local natural resources shapes the way that these resources are managed. Yet women are … a visiting fellow with IIED's Natural Resources Group , and a consultant with CIFOR. …
Insight, 02 July 2015