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Animation of a woman picking vegetables
Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone
… repaired – at a cost – tends to get the most attention. The loss of human life is a terrible, irreparable loss caused by climate change. And there are others like the loss of human health, loss of territory, loss of biodiversity, loss of culture… …
News, 15 March 2021
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Farmer-herder conflict in Africa: rethinking the phenomenon?
… and long-standing resentments amongst rural people. The cost in human lives lost, people displaced and military operations is vast. The …
Publication, 01 June 2020
Man walking on a flooded road.
Grants for developing nations to address climate change outweighed two to one by new debt
News, 07 September 2023
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Livelihoods Insurance from Elephants (LIFE) in Kenya and Sri Lanka
… to insure small scale women and men farmers for damage caused by Human Wildlife Conflict (HWC), primarily from elephants. This will …
Publication, 01 November 2018
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Making the market work for nature
… Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a …
Publication, 01 March 2020
Closely built shacks. In the background, trees. In the foreground, a river and, on the other side of it, smoke.
Introduction to urban health equity: addressing risks, promoting gender equality and fostering wellbeing in informal settings
… concerns. This work builds on the longstanding experience of IIED's Human Settlements research group .  Related work has explored urban food … participatory solutions to air pollution and its effects on human health in informal settlements in Kenya. Recently, we published a …
Article, 09 June 2022
Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)
New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
… from 7-13 February 2018. This event is convened by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and is the world's premier … and social policy specialist David Dodman , director, IIED Human Settlements Group  Alex Norodom , coordinator, IIED Human Settlements Group   Further panellists TBC …
News, 31 January 2018
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Navigating ocean investments
Publication, 01 October 2019
Stilt houses tower above water.
Loss and damage – research, policy and lived experience in least developed countries
… and damage is crucial to understand the inevitable consequences of human-caused climate change . Some of these impacts manifest slowly, …
Event, 08 September 2020
Mary Robinson called on the international community to focus on the human rights aspect of climate change when she gave the inaugural Barbara Ward lecture in London
2006 Barbara Ward Lecture: Mary Robinson makes climate change a justice issue
… a leading international jurist and the first UN commissioner for human rights, said she always looked for the human rights dimension in any given policy area. On the issue of climate change, the relevance of human rights was clear. She said the international community had …
Event, 11 December 2006