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LDCs can use the example of Brazil, which has achieved a drastic fall in emissions thanks to avoided deforestation, to see what is possible despite limited economic capacity. Pictured is deforestation for the use of clay in Rio de Janeiro (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
Insight, 04 June 2014
People planting trees
Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
… is really booming in Kisumu. IIED is curating a blog series via our Facebook page . We're inviting our followers – particularly our younger audience – to write for us … in organising tree planting events, and monitoring behaviorial change among community members with regards to ecological conservation.  …
Insight, 11 February 2020
The Food Change Lab engaged a wide group of voices from people in different parts of the food system in the Fort Portal region (Photo: Nimrod Bagonza)
Mixing more voices into food policy
… good for the planet. And we know that diversity in diets is good for our health. But what about diversity of voices, in shaping our food … with the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC) , work with a 'change lab' approach in the rapidly changing Kabarole region of Western … planning document Vision 2040 . Vision 2040's plans for urban growth focus on 'hard infrastructure' – roads, houses – and a growing formal …
Insight, 10 October 2016
A community in Cameroon, where Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement has been supporting junior lawyers in rural communities (Photo: Lorenzo Cotula/IIED)
Legal empowerment: what we do, what we've learned
… chance to learn from diverse approaches and share experience from our ' Legal tools for citizen empowerment ' initiative. Since 2006, this … decisions will have already been taken at higher levels. So we also focus our energies 'upstream', for example helping citizens to … emphasis on local organisations involves challenges, because social change requires time and local leaders may take the process in …
Insight, 14 November 2017
Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
… bring real benefit to those hardest hit by the impacts of climate change? Good news for adaptation funding Most projects approved in the last tranche and those being considered in the next round focus on adaptation. This sends an important signal that funding is … billion per year is needed for financing decentralised energy. Yet our number crunching found that international public climate finance …
Insight, 24 June 2016
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SD goals from a forest perspective: Transformative, universal and integrated?
… module’. The modular approach improves on the more limited current focus on sustainable forest management, deforestation and reforestation … landscapes and livelihoods. With the negotiation phase nearing, our assessment of the UN Open Working Group’s zero draft finds a strong … outcomes delivered by forests and what are the key levers of change? …
Publication, 01 July 2014
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… top-10 list free of charge in PDF format. You can also search all our publications, both formal published works and informal literature, from the main page of our publications site . We offer libraries and resource centres in the … . Our new  Urban Matters blog  focuses on urban poverty, climate change in cities and rural-urban linkages.  Impact of climate change on …
Article, 31 December 2015
Someone puts the final piece of a jigsaw into the puzzle
Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
… and equitable world simply cannot be achieved by 2030 if we stick to our conventional ways of working. If we do so, we could remain locked … more sustainable world. The SDGs offer a great opportunity to rethink our practice to help it to become more relevant to the development … by designing participatory processes, defining the scope and focus of the evaluation, and identifying the policies and plans of the …
Insight, 21 April 2020
A farmer in Tattaguine, Senegal benefits from an irrigation project. IIED is advocating for the Green Climate Fund to speed up the process of getting finance to local levels, those who need it most (Photo: Ryan Kendrick Smith, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
… integrating climate into the budget process, ensuring that climate change is included in fiscal and expenditure policy at national level … the game-changing programmes that will really transform economies. Our message to the board is more speed and less haste. There's been a … Paris climate agreement was sealed and there's been a more practical focus on spending the money. The economies of the Least Developed …
Article, 10 October 2016
International days are used to promote awareness and action on important topics. But how does IIED engage with them? (Image: IIED)
Seizing the day without falling off the bandwagon
… best be harnessed by organisations? And what have we learned from our experiences? Seizing the opportunity International days, or … are relevant and prominent, and rearrange your homepage content to focus on the issue at hand for instant impact   Make content explaining … and   Don't get caught out by events – circumstances can quickly change so make sure you are available to react to any global events, …
Insight, 19 November 2015