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Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
News, 31 March 2021
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Aid and business for sustainable development. Emerging lessons from effective aid-business partnerships for sustainable development
Publication, 01 January 2016
Woman bends over a seedbed.
IIED at the 2022 Nature-based Solutions Conference
… (NbS) to societal challenges and to help ensure they support thriving human societies and ecosystems without compromising efforts to keep …
Event, 05 July 2022
Women farmers sorting their carrot harvest in Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana (Photo: Nirmal Sigtia, IWMI/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Women in rural India are nature’s guardians
… nutritive value and ensure food and nutrition security - not just for human beings but for animals too. Crops are grown using mixed cropping … women in other parts of India, born out of an intrinsic concern for human, animal and environmental health; the women believe protecting … to the environment – such as forest degradation and forest fires, human-animal conflict and changing weather patterns. These traditional …
Article, 30 October 2018
Aerial view of Accra, Ghana.
African Cities Research Consortium
… Consortium The consortium builds on recent work that IIED’s Human Settlements research group has undertaken for the  Foreign, …
Project, 16 October 2020
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The Role of Forests in a Green Economy transformation in Africa
… According to UNEP (2012), a green economy ‘results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing …
Publication, 01 August 2015
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
… instead becomes a case of damage limitation: which fundamental human rights will governments (or negotiators) choose to omit as … I wholeheartedly subscribe to this view. Sure, there is reference to human rights in the introduction. But in the text of the targets … there is also a more fundamental gap in the existing international human rights framework with respect to the universal right to a safe, …
Insight, 18 February 2015
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Enabling private investment in informal settlements: exploring the potential of community finance
… development of informal settlements. Community finance provides the human and organisational capacity to address the perceived risks that …
Publication, 01 September 2017
A group of people look at a TV screen, in front of which a computer shows how they appear on the screen.
Indigenous Peoples call for recognition of vital role in protecting mountain water towers
News, 16 June 2023
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New coalition to transform cities – and lives
… at United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) . “Such transformations require holistic … inclusive cities,” says Anna Walnycki , senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . But while some Latin American cities …
News, 10 May 2021