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Maurice Strong at the High Level Dialogue on Global Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Sergio Greif, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Maurice Strong, pioneering environmental champion
… agencies. The environment conference was different, and it was big international news. Proposed by the Swedish government, developing … toward the South. He chose Maurice, then the President of Canada's international development agency and a committed advocate of developing … water and sanitation, growth of urban shantytowns and the bias of the international trading system against the poor. Maurice used the book as …
Insight, 04 December 2015
Aerial view of informal settlement
Reducing urban poverty – lessons not learnt?
… conditions. There is also the lack of engagement by governments and international agencies with those designated as ‘the poor’, meaning … poverty. And there’s no opportunity for them to hold governments and international agencies to account for the inaccuracies. This is the … federations of informal settlement residents, such as Slum Dwellers International , have demonstrated their capacities to help governments …
Insight, 10 August 2021
A motorbike rides through a flooded road. A woman tries to cross the road from the left hand side pavement.
IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities
Insight, 09 March 2022
A women wielding a hoe tends to her crops before a spectacular background of green hills
Bhutan’s climate ambition: showcasing leadership, delivering inclusive action
Insight, 08 March 2022
CLACC Fellows gather in Durban, South Africa
Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC)
… partners and wider civil society in the LDCs. More than half of CLACC fellows were invited to join their national negotiating teams at the … provide an important venue for conducting advocacy at national and international levels: meeting key national contacts, donors, project … and fed this information into national adaptation planning and international decision-making.  The first research topic focused on …
Project, 05 September 2008
Resilience Academies to connect climate change research, policy and practice
News, 10 September 2013
In Durban, a day to focus on climate communication
News, 19 December 2011
IIED statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report
… Dr Camilla Toulmin, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development says:  "The … worldwide need to press governments to act, both at home and on the international stage." Dr Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in IIED's climate …
News, 27 September 2013
New web resource helps to boost development with sound environmental management
… "The environment underpins our health, wealth and security yet international studies show that most environmental indicators are in … findings upon which it is based were funded by the UK Department for International Development, Irish Aid, AusAid and the UN Development …
News, 10 August 2010
Copenhagen's climate finance - six key questions
… United States, and Martin Stadelmann, a researcher at the Center for International and Comparative Studies, ETH and University of Zurich, …
News, 01 February 2010