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Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor
… between all forest stakeholders to challenge definitions of legality, work out how to make legality fair, and bring the more ambitious end of … profitable and sustainable. In short, FLEGT and REDD can work in unison to bring about locally controlled forestry — a … to both enforceable legality and long-term forest sustainability, and our theme for this UN International Year of Forests.   …
Insight, 26 January 2011
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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
… agencies and social organisations, the conference aims to improve how our natural environment is managed for human, social and economic … from local organisations will share and describe their work on conservation and development, and members of the audience can …
Event, 16 August 2012
People point to a computer screen.
ELLA - sharing Evidence and Lessons from Latin America
… and case studies from Latin America had a huge influence in my work... it was possible to modify the Chiredzi District adaptation model … be available to download for free from the ELLA website —  but read our knowledge materials on climate change in rural areas that have been …
Insight, 12 November 2012
Women from Paraguay's Ita Guasu indigenous community discuss their community development plan. Civil debate and value-based decision making will be key to implementing the SDGs (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
… agenda, are political as much as technical questions. Deepening our understanding of the political dimension IIED has recently begun …
Insight, 12 July 2016
Althelia Ecosphere's Simon Dent speaking at Fish Night 2 (Photo: Inta Photography)
Fish Night 2 looks at finance for sustainable fisheries
… and bring it to what we call sea-scapes. We believe that we can take our investment rationale and apply it to a sustainable sea-scape …
Event, 04 March 2015
PLA 46 cover
PLA 46: Participatory processes for policy change
… the workshop was heated, with many people involved in participatory work around the world becoming involved. In an attempt to manage this … in this issue are more general articles, Tips for Trainers, and our usual In Touch section, which includes book reviews, events, and e-participation.
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Article, 01 February 2003
An image of an artisanal fisher in Kiribati casting his net into the water; 90 per cent of all fishers are small-scale or artisanal (Photo: Quentin Hanich/WorldFish, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Towards an inclusive blue economy
… week in Nairobi. This gave me the chance to dig into the excellent work on oceans and coastal fisheries led by IIED's Essam Yassin Mohammed … as ' governing half of the planet for all of the world's people '.   Our oceans and coastlines are vitally important global public goods and …
Insight, 01 June 2016
Delegates at CBA8 in Nepal travel to Kirtipur Village, Nawalparasi District to see the effects of climate change as part of the pre-conference fields trips (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
Insight, 01 May 2014
An image of the front of a stationary train on the Addis Ababa light rail system, which opened in 2015, and was the first to be built in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two railway lines, which have their own dedicated power grid, demonstrate how Ethiopia is seeking low-carbon energy initiatives (Photo: Wikipedia, via Google licence)
Q&A: Linking low-carbon pathways with the SDGs
… where ministries of environment, health, transport, agriculture all work together to drive implementation. How can this be addressed? YS: … be ready to share knowledge and to learn from each other, to change our behaviours, if we are to achieve these goals. What are the …
Article, 30 May 2016
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… gathering. In addition to hosting and speaking at COP side events, our researchers provided support to negotiators from the Least Developed … to SDGs and the 2030 Agenda.  Related reading: Making mini-grids work: productive uses of electricity in Tanzania NDCs and nature-based … to 2-degree Celsius increase and uphold the sustainability of our natural resources. The Business & Sustainable Development Commission …
Event, 06 November 2017