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IIED deepens links with largest global network of local governments
… for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  SDG11 aims to make human settlements ‘inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” – but the …
News, 12 March 2024
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Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action
… axes for marginalisation and oppression that interact to shape human experience and people’s ability to adapt to the climate crisis and … levels, our process builds on scholarly work and applied practices on human agency (PDF) and women’s empowerment that look at informal …
Project, 09 May 2022
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Protecting legitimate tenure rights: From concepts to practice
… legitimate tenure rights, linking tenure issues to businesses’ wider human rights responsibilities. However, the concept of legitimate tenure …
Publication, 29 September 2021
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Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development
… trade that is illegal, unsustainable or carries major risks to human health, biodiversity conservation or meeting acceptable animal … far beyond tackling these risks and have the potential to undermine human rights, damage conservation incentives and harm sustainable …
Publication, 01 August 2020
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Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
… and stresses. Responding to these risks is central to the work of the Human Settlements research group as it seeks to achieve sustainable, … inclusive, equitable, healthy, safe, resilient and prosperous human settlements. Many of these people live in informal settlements … make some people more vulnerable than others. What has IIED done? The Human Settlements research group at IIED has three decades of experience …
Article, 01 April 2022
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Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
… Human life depends on biodiversity, but biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and the human cultures that have conserved it for millennia are also fast … through state-run protected areas, often disconnecting nature from human life. However,  recent findings by the Intergovernmental …
News, 23 September 2020
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Mining cobalt better
… world’s largest supplier of cobalt), is beset with extreme social and human rights challenges. This includes child labour, forced labour and …
Insight, 29 September 2021
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Promoting better policy and citizen agency in the mining sector
… of benefits, dispossession of natural resources, breaches of human rights – still stand in the way of the wellbeing of many … such as artisanal mining , protected areas, environmental protection, human rights and investor-state dispute settlement.  We are carrying out …
Project, 22 December 2021
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Untold stories: climate activism and the brutal realities of loss and damage
… too. Some can be repaired at a cost. But others, such as the loss of human life, damage to health, destruction of crucial ecosystems, and …
Event, 23 September 2021
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Reporting greenhouse gas emissions: LDCs’ 20-year journey
… and action to reduce them. National GHG inventories – listing human-induced domestic GHG emissions for a certain year or period − are … countries must gather and compile quantitative information on human activities that generate emissions – such as fuel consumption, …
Insight, 01 June 2021