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Countryside in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China. Photo: Duncan Macqueen
Strength in numbers: the promise of forest producer organisations
… co-sponsored by the Forest and Farm Facility , a partnership between IIED, FAO and IUCN. China has established more than 1000 forest … There are hopes too that China’s willing engagement in a new IIED-facilitated platform with African forest decision-makers may begin … strength in numbers. Duncan Macqueen is principal researcher in IIED’s Forest Team ( duncan.macqueen@iied.org ) …
Insight, 28 November 2013
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… and popularise the issue of climate change in cities." Saleemul Huq, IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate … video message for the CBA10 closing ceremony, which can be viewed on IIED's YouTube channel …
News, 28 April 2016
Informal settlements around Laguna Lake near Manila in the Philippines (Photo: Arlynn Aquino EU/ECHO, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate responsive cities: a road towards the 'New Urban Agenda'?
Insight, 15 November 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron has helped the UK provide global leadership on addressing climate change. But he has decided to resign after the European Union referendum vote, and there are fears that the UK will become more insular (Photo: Russell Watkins/DFID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change
Insight, 01 July 2016
Cover for 10513IIED.pdf
Globalization and Cities
Publication, 01 April 2002
Cover for 9050IIED.pdf
Drawers of Water: 30 Years of Change in Domestic Water Use and Environmental Health - Kenya Country Case Study
Publication, 01 April 2002
Cover for G03825.pdf
Linking great ape conservation and poverty alleviation in DRC, Workshop Report
… private sector and government). In response to these concerns IIED, with funding from UK Aid and the Arcus Foundation,and in …
Publication, 01 May 2014
Informal settlements, Jakarta, Indonesia
Human Settlements research group ways of working
… IIED's Human Settlements research group has been working on urban …
Article, 17 September 2014
The Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Many informal settlements are built on steep slopes, exposing them to landslides (Photo: Outdoor Life, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change?
… live in informal settlements. David Satterthwaite (david.satterthaite@iied.org) is senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group . This blog originally appeared …
Insight, 06 March 2018
Cover for G03765.pdf
Local preferences for REDD+ payment formats in Brazil, The Bolsa Floresta Programme, RDS Rio Negro
… led by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, UK) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Aas, Norway). …
Publication, 01 December 2013