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IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
… carbon energy revolution and winning the economic prize. These big international events are the means to agree a change in direction in …
Insight, 11 December 2014
A giant temple bell in Mongolia (Photo: David Berkowitz via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
The IPCC rings the warning bell louder. Is anyone listening?
Insight, 02 April 2014
Climate change study provides greenhouse-gas emissions for 100 cities in 33 nations
… Environment and Urbanization published by Sage Publications and the International Institute for Environment and Development. The study … the editor of Environment and Urbanization and a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development. "Most cities in …
News, 25 January 2011
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
… three blogs drawn from the editorial in the April 2017 issue of the international journal, Environment & Urbanization . This issue is on …
Insight, 26 April 2017
Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?
… and drew heavily on the OECD Development Assistance Committee's International Development Targets. Low and middle income countries had …
Insight, 01 March 2016
India's urban poor threaten to cripple Mumbai's air and rail links
News, 29 May 2007
Bangladesh: schoolchildren attend lessons at a school located on a boat (Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS)
Ten lessons on community-based adaptation
Insight, 16 March 2016
Climate change and religion in flooded Bangkok
Insight, 20 October 2011
Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!
News, 20 March 2007
A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… government representatives will meet in Addis Ababa for the 3rd international conference on Financing for Development . A draft (PDF) … commitments are made with a strong focus on national governments, international agencies and the private sector. But who has to act – to … the draft Addis Ababa Accord is all around national governments, international agencies and the private sector. In paragraph 36, there is …
Insight, 31 March 2015