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Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 17
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers … including taking a borderless approach to the future, with a focus on people-led demands and greater youth leadership. Find out more … Making sustainable development a reality – movements that inspire change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 17 …
Article, 21 June 2022
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IIED at 50 – reflecting on the past, looking to the future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 15
… IIED’s  ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our … between the environment and development and make this link the focus of our work – a focus that prevails today.  Abeysinghe pinpoints … Climate change … IIED at 50 – reflecting on the past, looking to the future: Make Change Happen podcast episode 15 …
Article, 10 January 2022
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IIED’s values
… We reviewed and rewrote our core organisational values to ensure they are fit for the future.  … and can be used by individuals, teams and partners. They underpin our ethos and code of conduct, and define our vision for how IIED exists … break down silos and share power with our partners.   Transformative change We do everything we can to deliver impactful and systemic change …
Page, 14 May 2024
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Using digital technology to scan potential for change in sustainable development
… giving power to people made vulnerable through poverty and climate change, enhancing livelihoods and for predicting future trends in … development agenda for the benefit of everyone. It chose to focus on understanding how to use artificial intelligence to inform more … These monitoring tools have the potential to enhance the impact of our work but we needed to generate ‘proof of concept’ before looking to …
Project, 24 August 2022
Immaculate Yossa is regional advocacy officer for Eastern Africa at Hivos. She discussed key messages from multi-stakeholder action at the Uganda Food Lab (Photo: Food and Agriculture Organisation, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Achieving real transformation in our food system
… enough food, and more than one third of the seven billion people on our planet are unwell or will become unwell because of what they eat. … This undermines the ability of agriculture to adapt to climate change. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agri-food 'value chain' … change Engaging multiple actors to transform the food system was the focus of this year’s Committee for Food Security  meeting in Rome …
Insight, 23 October 2018
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Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
… At IIED, our strategy commits us to address inequality and promote the rights and … women, young and old. Social justice is at the centre of our climate change research. But over the past year – a year when the COVID-19 … better at intersectionality means understanding power dynamics The focus on gender equality often characterises women as 'the vulnerable', …
Insight, 19 May 2021
A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
… held two strikingly hopeful moments: the Paris Agreement on climate change and the launch of Agenda 2030 . Since then, some other instances … and pointed to the important links between the goal areas – how a focus on terrestrial and marine biodiversity, for example, was important … of many and the future of all. A realistic politics of hope in our era focuses on collective action between countries to tackle the big …
Insight, 01 September 2022
A young person holds up a sign, saying "There is no planet B" among a march
IIED at 50: how can we harness youth’s energy to drive positive change?
… Q: What does it take to get young people motivated to drive change when there are so many competing interests? BB: It can take a lot … bringing in their fresh ideas. But if we join in these dialogues, our inputs must be taken seriously, and our contributions must be … conservation are both crucial and valuable. But in the long run, the focus needs to be on local ownership. This will support sustainable use …
Article, 22 June 2022
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Building better cities: responding to the twin challenge of inequality and climate change
… agencies, research institutions, international NGOs and city leaders, our researchers identified four key action areas for 2022:  Embracing … to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that the impacts of climate change and efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle … report also notes that there are trade-offs and therefore, without a focus on equity, the benefits of infrastructural, mitigation and …
Article, 23 June 2022
Woman sitting at a table speaks to a microphone. A sign saying "Benin" stands in front of her.
Supporting new LDC negotiators in the UN climate negotiations: what’s at stake?
… countries (LDCs) face when participating in the international climate change negotiations. The tremendous, fast-paced and fast-growing process … the Least Developed Countries Group (LDC Group) in climate talks. Our objective is to provide direct support for new negotiators that will … and four are from the Asia-Pacific region. While our primary focus was to support women negotiators, two outstanding male candidates …
Insight, 01 November 2023