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Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
Article, 06 December 2019
Cover for G00919.pdf
Mining and Energy Research Network Promoting Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Development SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS & SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Paris, 14th January 2002
… and Energy Research Network Promoting Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Development SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS & SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE … · Capacity Building · Auditing & Verification · Strategic Integration Policy, codes & standards provide reporting frameworks But.Corporate … Mining and Energy Research Network Promoting Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Development SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS & SUSTAINABILITY …
Publication, 01 January 2002
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… have today (18 September) issued unprecedented coordinated calls for urgent action on nature to protect human and planetary health. … are voicing simultaneous calls for decisive action to secure a sustainable future for people and the planet. These calls for action, … calling for governments to take action on nature loss: environment, development and other partner organisations; development and …
News, 18 September 2020
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… heavily criticised by both the development and academic communities for being both fiscally and technically inadequate. Recent attention has … overall objective of the CIFs is to provide concessional loans for policy reforms and investments that achieve development goals through a … and capacity start to grow, climate change can then start to be fully integrated into national, sectoral and local development plans, both to …
Article, 14 November 2008
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… A recent webinar jointly hosted by IIED and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CSSI)  looked at ways civil society groups are … rights, or damage the environment on which these communities depend for their livelihoods. These issues are rarely brought forward by the … Center on Sustainable Investment, focusing on investment law and policy, natural resources, and the intersection between human rights and …
Insight, 05 March 2018
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
Isiolo County, Kenya: dryland areas make up more than 80 per cent of Kenya's land and are home to some four million pastoralists (Photo: James Patison/IIED)
A new approach to climate resilient drylands agriculture
… and poverty. The book, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), argues that improved … basics that any production system needs to thrive.  "At present the policy and investment 'playing field' is very far from level. By reading … region. IIED is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global …
News, 27 April 2015
A large sign in a street
Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet
… pandemic, drawing on our partners’ insights and providing a platform for voices from the global South. Here, IIED principal researcher  Aditya Bahadur and independent climate policy researcher Anmol Arora look at the importance of  achieving a … and disasters have on health in cities, there are growing calls for the two disciplines to connect. And this closer collaboration has …
Article, 24 July 2020
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… We do this by strengthening local organisations and advocating for fairer policies and their implementation. Read about some of the … to the production of food, energy, materials and clean water, and are integrated with systems of waste management. Key findings from this … the social and environmental costs of modern food systems, and the policy reversals needed to democratise food systems. Key findings from …
Project, 14 August 2013
Delegates at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru. (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
An ‘historic opportunity’ to reduce poverty and emissions to zero to be highlighted by #zerozero campaign
… Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre , the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) , and the … which includes agreeing a new global climate agreement, new goals for sustainable development, and a new international disasters agreement, …
News, 04 December 2014