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Woman walking on a pipe with garbage around.
Call to international funders: address grassroots organisations’ priorities, not yours
… current and future health and economic impacts, and demands our attention and commitment to work together to overcome it. Here, … specific activities. What savings groups really need is to be able to focus on their own priorities, not those of international funders.  …
Insight, 14 October 2020
More than 300,000 marched in New York to call for action on climate change (Photo: John Minchillo)
People power applies climate pressure
… young, from all corners of the world, we called for action on climate change. Two dozen sat silent in Central Park in yoga poses, willing us … 23 September, the Secretary General's special Climate Summit will focus on catalysing action for getting climate change under control. Ban … in the system because of the deep entanglement of fossil energy with our economic performance and financial systems. Still, the risks to …
Insight, 23 September 2014
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
… and peer-to-peer training and a focal point for demonstrating climate change solutions by implementing partners. Other 'climate centers' will … director, Hajra Mukasa, explains: “We don’t use hotels, we take our meetings to the community, or we lose people in time and in … set up a Facebook group to share information. She said: “Over 60% of our farmers have a phone that could access social media like Facebook, …
Article, 03 December 2020
A boat near Fiji. Tourism and fishing are important industries for the Pacific nation of Fiji. Both of these economically important sectors depend on effective marine conservation (Photo: Sam Gao, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ocean of bliss: rewriting the narrative
… Oceans Day , there are plenty of reasons to think positively about our oceans. They are the foundations of our well-being and economic … that too much emphasis on the negative has inhibited our ability to focus on solutions and discuss the positive stories. Believe me, there … of North Sea cod stocks  to the use of economic instruments to change the behaviour of fishers to sustainably manage their resources.  …
Insight, 08 June 2015
Pilot projects including the Bolsa Floresta forest stipend scheme in Amazonas, Brazil, help to combat deforestation in Brazil (Google re-use licensed)
How to assess what people want from REDD+
Insight, 31 March 2014
Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)
Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley
… From 2015 to 2017, IIED drew on our broader experience in the arid lands of Kenya to look at ways to … and variable dryland climate requires: A dedicated strategic focus on water and environmental challenges, coupled with an … designed to simultaneously adapt to and mitigate climate change, achieve the water and energy-related Sustainable Development …
Project, 04 January 2017
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
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
… as to what the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Paris can deliver for the peoples of the world and for our planet. The ambition is for a universal and legally binding … degraded lands, can benefit people and the ecosystems they depend on. Focus of the workshop Many voices in Paris will have their views on what …
Insight, 27 November 2015
Fishermen offloading their morning catch from a fishing boat in Kalindi, West Bengal (Photo: Souvik Das Gupta, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Creating waves for small-scale fisheries
… Oceans are the earth's life-support system: they regulate our supplies of water and oxygen, provide livelihoods for around 200 … of their importance for humankind. Yet a critical question, and the focus of a recent meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) … small-scale fisheries into disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change planning Communities living on exposed coastlines are …
Insight, 17 November 2016
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019