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Peer review of The Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development
… Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) based on their own and other international experiences. The review involved several steps: A …
Project, 01 May 2008
A woman walks along a bamboo walkway in Iloilo, Philippines.
Study identifies political leadership as No. 1 issue in managing disaster risk
… reduce disaster risk and was undertaken by a team from the International Institute for Environment and Development led by Senior …
News, 04 September 2012
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
… 2016 The European Capacity Building Initiative  aims to support international climate change negotiations by building and sustaining … climate change. The event showed that only a very small amount of international public climate finance goes toward to decentralised energy … unlock climate finance for decentralised energy with improvements to international frameworks, develop national enabling environments, and …
Event, 05 November 2016
Informal settlements in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. The World Bank estimates that some 29 million Indonesians live in urban areas with poor access to basic services (Photo: Axel Drainville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?
… So responses from urban governments and from national governments and international agencies that are meant to help address these are … three blogs drawn from the editorial in the April 2017 issue of the international journal Environment & Urbanization . This issue focused on … people affected and/or a declaration of a state of emergency/call for international assistance) – that when taken together are the cause of so …
Insight, 18 April 2017
A Coca-Cola sign outside a small town in Benin. Bloomberg’s new health initiative will support cities to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks, but this isn't the biggest health challenge facing low-income urban residents (Photo: Lorena Pajares, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
… This issue has long been neglected by national governments and international agencies. So Bloomberg's commitment is hugely welcome.  …
Insight, 07 June 2017
The Ewaso Ng'iro River, in Isiolo County's Shaba National Reserve, Kenya where pilot projects to support adaptation 'may not yet be perfect, but have the right idea'. (Photo: Ninara via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Why community 'based' adaptation to climate change is not enough
Insight, 18 March 2014
Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)
2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
… to benefit most from strong agreements – and could lose out if the international community does not deliver. With clear links between … ([email protected]) is a senior fellow at IIED and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the …
Insight, 17 April 2015
COP16: United Nations climate change negotiations
… (ecbi) is an initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations. The ecbi Asia pre-COP 16 …
Event, 01 January 2015
Sumaya Zakieldeen
Q&A with Sumaya Zakieldeen
… support from the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The … did a lot of activities at different levels (national, regional and international). I believe that CLACC as an experience is very unique. It … different stakeholders. Is there synergy between your national and international work? Yes. There are a lot of linkages in what I'm doing. …
Article, 21 June 2012
The Deramakot Forest Reserve, in Sabah, Malaysia, includes a strict protection area for biodiversity conservation and a reduced-impact logging area (Photo: Angela Sevin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
… Forestry Association (CFA). It was published as an obituary in International Forestry Review 18(3), 369-371, 2016 , and is reproduced … in particular benefit from his legacy. One is in policy research: the International Institute for Environment and Development, for which … in a CIFOR survey. Duncan's legacy is perhaps most evident in the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), and in those of its …
Article, 19 October 2016