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Assessing the effectiveness of investments in climate information services
Publication, 01 November 2014
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Lima: paving the way to success in Paris
Publication, 01 November 2014
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Seven elements and seven steps for an effective climate agreement
Publication, 01 November 2014
A farmer in Bangladesh (Photo: ranakmartin/CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Poverty Environment Partnership meeting focuses on Sustainable Development Goals
… (UNEP) , International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development … , this year's event will be held at the BRAC conference centre . IIED chief economist Paul Steele said: "This is an important first meeting to assess the progress of implementation of the SDGs. IIED and our PEP partners will be urging governments in the northern and …
News, 26 February 2016
Forest farmer representatives from eight Southeast Asian countries exchange experiences with one of the branches of Tree Bank Foundation in Central Thailand (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
In the king's wake
… the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IIED.   We exchanged lessons on best practice and innovations in five … king whose words inspired a people. Duncan Macqueen (duncan.macqueen@iied.org) is principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group . …
Insight, 20 December 2016
Woman washing dishes in a bowl outside.
Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
Project, 20 October 2020
Negotiators from over 190 countries are attending the Paris climate summit (Photo:UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Least Developed Country experts raise their voices at COP21
… Members of IIED's Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (IEG) will be … and poverty. Saleemul Huq, who is a member of the IEG as well an IIED senior fellow and director of International Centre for Climate … of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees . He is also providing IIED with a daily video update from the talks.  In the run-up to COP21, …
News, 03 December 2015
aerial view of an oil palm plantation
Land rights and investment treaties
… or with regards to large-scale land-based investments.  What did IIED do? We generated evidence on the linkages between land rights and …
Project, 07 May 2020
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Herramientas de Incidencia
Publication, 01 June 2020
Villagers in Chitral protest about unreliable electricity supplies (Photo: Ground Report, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access
… access to modern electricity. Best, who works on energy issues in IIED's Sustainable Markets Group , spoke about the meaning of "energy … decisions in the interests of everyone." Best told the audience that IIED was part of a group of NGOs that last year had set up an alliance … citizens at the heart of future energy systems , Sarah Best (2015), IIED Report Understanding the SDGs: powering goal seven , video …
News, 16 March 2016