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IIED's best of 2020: blogs
… 2020 was hailed as a ‘super year’ for nature, with a series of major international events planned looking at how we could stop the decline of …
Article, 22 December 2020
Donor nations get low scores on climate finance transparency scorecard
… published today (19 September) by IIED. The scorecard's authors urge international negotiators who are gathering for talks under the UN … United States, Martin Stadelmann at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH and University of Zurich and Saleemul Huq and … "Greater transparency will be critical to building trust in the international negotiations towards a global agreement on how to tackle …
News, 16 September 2011
This map of the covered and open drains in Jamshed Town, Karachi illustrates how communities have led on installing sewers and drains (Image: Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute)
Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
… including inadequate support from higher levels of government and international agencies, are the most important reasons so many urban … three blogs drawn from the editorial in the April 2017 issue of the international journal, Environment & Urbanization . This issue is on … Mombasa (Kenya), Dakar (Senegal), and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). International support for local action International agencies must …
Insight, 08 May 2017
Global Initiative on Community Based Adaptation formally launched in Tanzania
… launched a Global Initiative on Community Based Adaptation, with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) serving … Oxfam GB, Practical Action, CARE, Development Fund of Norway, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Stockholm … from 38 countries from all regions of the world attended the 4th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change …
News, 01 March 2010
Getting water from a tanker in Vijinapura, India. Partnerships between local government and slum/shack dweller organisations can help deliver urban development goals (Photo: cstepin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why do we ignore the local processes that deliver global goals in urban areas?
… whose unmet needs they were set up to help address. Despite claims by international agencies to support participation, accountability and … agencies – whether global funds or aid agencies, development banks or international NGOs.   This not only negates their claims of support, it … and transparency. Sheela's blog highlights how global funds and international agencies are only as effective as the intermediaries they …
Insight, 16 August 2016
Heads of government will pledge action on climate change at the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September (Image: UN)
Leaders take note: There are two sides to the climate change coin
Insight, 18 September 2014
Workshop participants displayed and exchanged seeds from different parts of the world (Image: Yiching Song/Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy)
New film shows Chinese mountain communities protecting biocultural heritage
… the successful Potato Park model The third learning exchange of the International Network of Mountain Indigenous People , where Naxi and …
News, 14 March 2017
A delegate at COP18 in Doha (Photo: N. Palmer/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit
… partnership between the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the … event was co-hosted by  Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The …
Article, 20 December 2012
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
… - and tragically - the limits to adaptation, and shows that a new international agreement to deal with climate change must consider loss … when he ended his speech, in which he called on nations to agree an international mechanism on loss and damage over the next two weeks, as … last year’s conference in Doha. I believe that the announcement of an international mechanism on loss and damage at Warsaw (indeed we may even …
Insight, 13 November 2013
At the start of June, US President Barack Obama made a major declaration on limiting emissions of carbon dioxide by a third from coal-fired power plants (Photo: Google licence)
Finally, the US gets serious on climate change
… example the House of Representatives recently held a hearing on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and declared it to be … Saleemul Huq is a senior fellow at IIED and the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development , based in …
Insight, 03 June 2014