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Don't blame cities for climate change, see them as solutions
News, 25 September 2008
The Sumatran rhinoceros
World Conservation Congress: key themes and a new leader to watch
… just material well-being and economic growth. Priceless or Worthless? IIED believes that payments for environmental services can play a role …
Insight, 17 September 2012
Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
… farmers and providing tangible incentives for conservation. What did IIED do? This project set up a payments for environmental services (PES) …
Project, 22 June 2011
Busy commuter traffic
What drives the world’s changing urban geographies?
… how this has changed since 1800 in our cities data visual (Image: IIED/Kiln) Urban population statistics and global maps of large cities …
Insight, 23 April 2020
With nations lagging, cities take lead in adapting to climate change
… , the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , and Makerere …
Insight, 06 June 2011
In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households
… . A copy may be obtained from david.satterthwaite@iied.org …
Insight, 06 June 2018
Setting fire to outdated thinking on biomass energy
… approach to biomass energy is the central argument of a new IIED report ‘Bundles of energy’ . The report highlights International …
Insight, 11 April 2011
Boys herd family cows in Wakesi, Kenya while dark grey storm clouds gather behind.
Looking beyond land to support rural youth
… seminar — the final in a series of six ‘ provocations ’ organised by IIED and Hivos — saw policymakers, academics, donors and other …
Insight, 30 May 2012
Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… SDGs into reality.     Lorenzo Cotula is a principal researcher in IIED’s natural resources group. Next week he will publish a handbook —free to download from www.iied.org — that shows how governments and civil society organisations in …
Insight, 14 November 2013
An image of the front of a stationary train on the Addis Ababa light rail system, which opened in 2015, and was the first to be built in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two railway lines, which have their own dedicated power grid, demonstrate how Ethiopia is seeking low-carbon energy initiatives (Photo: Wikipedia, via Google licence)
Q&A: Linking low-carbon pathways with the SDGs
… The Least Developed Countries (LDC) Independent Expert Group (IEG) , IIED and the ESRC's STEPS Centre will host a dialogue on Monday, 13 June …
Article, 30 May 2016