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Uncomfortable conversations? Confronting development’s White gaze: Make Change Happen podcast episode 18
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers … organisations to move towards becoming anti-racist, with a particular focus on language and storytelling. Hosted by Liz Carlile , IIED’s … conversations? Confronting development’s White gaze: Make Change Happen podcast episode 18 …
Article, 20 July 2022
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
Article, 06 December 2019
Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable, but are their voices sufficiently heard at major international events? (Photo: Victoria Hickman)
New IIED discussion series focuses on gender at international events
… gender equality and women's empowerment into the climate change discourse.  But at the same event there were allegations of … of women at the talks. In response to this paradox, and as part of our ongoing work on gender mainstreaming , IIED is organising a series …
News, 31 January 2018
People planting mushrooms.
Redesigning grant making for locally-led conservation
… Republic of Congo and Cameroon.  Here, we share the experience of our attempt to embed the locally led adaptation (LLA) principles – … essential for local actors, whether they are responding to climate change or biodiversity loss.  Facing the contradiction  As one of more … the conservation space, which does not always have an explicit focus on adaptation.  When trying to apply the LLA principles to the …
Insight, 26 February 2024
Sandbags in a doorway to prevent flooding
Adapting to climate change in Europe: building a systemic and urgent vision
… concern and media attention around the urgent challenge of climate change. This urgency is long overdue and welcome support for more … resilience have not so far been at the centre of these movements. The focus – understandably given the growing public alarm at the … potential for widespread disruption from climate impacts. Drawing on our experience on these issues in the global South and innovation …
Insight, 15 May 2019
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Getting local adaptation expertise into global spaces: five key messages we’re taking forward from CBA17
Insight, 20 June 2023
A farmer in Bangladesh (Photo: ranakmartin/CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Poverty Environment Partnership meeting focuses on Sustainable Development Goals
… does sustainable development look like in action? This will be the focus of the next meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) , … and Development (IIED) and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) , with support from the Asian … to assess the progress of implementation of the SDGs. IIED and our PEP partners will be urging governments in the northern and southern …
News, 26 February 2016
Aerial view of trees with a town and the sea in the backround.
Reform the global financial system to support transformational adaptation
… in St Andrew, Jamaica from the Bonn intersessional, I learnt that our island had experienced so much rain over the two weeks I was away, … impacts on their economies. This is the nature of climate change. Its impacts on our lives and livelihoods are relentless, and on … we can use to build our institutions and capabilities rather than focus on delivering neat outcomes for the providers. These ongoing …
Insight, 03 July 2023
A man casting a net
Achieving transformational change for the ocean
… The health of our ocean and seas is vital for the future of our planet: they help to regulate our climate, can provide clean energy, … related to sustainable fisheries, marine conservation, climate change, pollution, livelihoods and policy. Monitoring often focuses on … Achieving transformational change for the ocean …
Insight, 11 June 2019
Climate change leaving women vulnerable to slavery, bonded-labour and trafficking
… the link between modern slavery and migration induced by climate change. As world leaders prepare to gather for the COP26 UN climate … climate emergency also tackle modern slavery. Through interviews and focus-group discussions, researchers found drought in northern Ghana was … International’s climate change and modern slavery advisor, said: “Our research shows the domino effect of climate change on millions of …
News, 20 September 2021