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Moving right along: climate change and migration
… This hinges on status: how to define people forced to move because of environmental disaster. That might seem a policy storm in a teacup to some. But anything involving political … climate change. There is, she said, a need for a definition for environmental exiles (those who become stateless) and climate migrants …
Insight, 13 December 2009
A tree leans over a small stream in a forest in Mozambique.
16 tools to help small businesses sustain forests, limit climate change and cut poverty
… • How to connect small enterprises to markets, to each other and to policy processes • How to create and secure funding for alliances of … secure resource rights in ways that can reduce poverty, encourage environmental accountability and help to tackle climate change.” …
News, 01 May 2012
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)
Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
… aspects of sustainable development, including community development, environmental management, climate change, energy, communications and the … She also currently works as the co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre, and with the United Nations Economic Commission for … on adaptive collaborative management, governance, verification, environmental services and rural livelihoods, alternatives to slash and …
Article, 03 August 2015
Ships lay stranded in a dry reservoir in China.
China: can the ‘factory of the world’ clean up its act?
… generated in the production of goods for export, for example. China’s environmental record to date, and its future, were discussed in a … Chinese environmentalist and director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) – opened the discussion. He presented the … to the implementation and enforcement of effective environmental policy in China, and that consumer demands will be an important force to …
Insight, 27 June 2012
Nigerian subsidy crisis shows the road to a green economy isn’t smooth
… the top. Yesterday, President Jonathan partly recalled his New Year policy, restoring most of the subsidy on fossil fuels, which immediately … support an industry that is destroying the natural world and wreaking environmental havoc. Surely, such subsidies have to go? For those not convinced by the environmental case alone, there is also a strong economic case for …
Insight, 17 January 2012
Drilling for oil in Mali.
IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
… Much secrecy surrounds these deals. They often create environmental and social problems for local communities or leave little … Over several years, IIED’s research has made big contributions to policy debates about transparency and governance in land acquisitions … pathway for transparency initiatives is to make linkages with other environmental and social development initiatives, including government …
News, 14 June 2013
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… 1. Sustainable development is still a long way from the top table of policy and power. One of the most striking images of the Summit weekend … and China focused on the potential impact that a greater focus on environmental wellbeing could have on job creation. On the flip side, … services and valuation systems, which put a monetary worth on environmental resources, while the G77 collectively turned down EU …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Woman using a public water tap in Kliptown, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Johannesburg uses 32 different indicators to assess progress towards its strategic goals. Indicators need to reflect the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups (Photo: Ray Muzyka, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The value and limits of urban sustainability indicators
Insight, 21 April 2015
Delivering REDD+: can past lessons help in tempering optimism and making headway?
… of what an acceptable balance between forests and agriculture is. Policy reforms have therefore often attempted to: (i) devolve resources … commercial management of resources that preserve national and global environmental goods, for example insisting on management plans and environmental impact assessments; and (iii) encourage market incentives …
Insight, 09 May 2011
Ploughshare and radiated tortoises that have been seized in Bangkok will be among the case studies presented at a wildlife crime symposium in South Africa (Photo: Panjit Tansom/TRAFFIC)
Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime
… Ministry for the Environment , Australia's Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED)  and the wildlife trade monitoring … this issue is now a major focus of human security, conservation and policy development. High profile examples of international action …
News, 20 February 2015