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IIED communications senior coordinator Julie Hill talks to COP23 delegates in Bonn, Germany
Responsible operations 2018
… and environmental sustainability update An important part of our commitment to responsible operations is working to reduce our carbon emissions. The 12% reduction in our carbon footprint that we … reduction in air travel, and highlights how much the location of our work affects our carbon emissions. We are still well below our goal of …
Page, 11 October 2018
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Loss and damage: erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is deep and irreparable
… amazing landscapes, and where people live in harmony with nature. In our culture, we worship the sun, trees, the moon, even animals. We ask … my beautiful homeland is a first-hand victim of the climate crisis. Our dependence on nature for our livelihoods makes us very vulnerable. … lives, property and infrastructure. People can lose their lifetime’s work in a second. It also washes away their dreams and hopes.   …
Insight, 19 January 2022
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Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… to ten sustainable development movements. In it, IIED’s decades of work with the movement for grassroots sustainable urbanisation rightly … vulnerable communities. These basic needs have always been central to our work, but now have shifted to consider how these solutions can be … Do you think any new approaches or ideas are needed now? JH: From our perspective we don’t need new ideas, as we are dealing with the same …
Article, 14 June 2022
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Delivering change: IIED annual review 2019
… review summarises the institute's activities during the year. While our 2019-2024 strategy Make Change Happen identified where we can make a … shows how we delivered against these actions and sought to achieve our mission throughout 2019. From finding ways to channel climate … to support green, social enterprises; to winning awards for our work conceptualising sustainable development evaluation – everything …
Publication, 01 February 2020
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Planning land use and access in Tanzania: women have their say
… more inclusive land governance, focusing on women’s participation . Our long-standing work with communities across rural Tanzania has shown how gendered norms … official VLUP process so they could play an active role in it. Our motivation here was ownership of the process: village land is …
Insight, 06 October 2022
Various women holding sickles and working the land
IIED at CBD COP15
Article, 15 November 2022
People sitting under a straw tent next to rice fields
CBA17: back in person, ready to harness energy to drive forward the locally led adaptation agenda
… international community-based adaptation conference (CBA17)  will be our first in-person conference since 2019. During the pandemic we took … we will examine how nature-based solutions − solutions that work with nature to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural …
Insight, 15 March 2023
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IIED launches annual review of 2019
… local to global scales. The review reports on IIED's wide-ranging work on the climate crisis, including how it provides support to the … "The collection of stories in this review shows how IIED, alongside our partners, is delivering the ambition we set out in our strategy. "These are just some examples of how, with the right …
News, 05 February 2020
A room full of men sitting around tables, with a COP27 sign on the wall.
Understanding the gender imbalance at the international climate negotiations
… women from the least developed countries (LDCs) in the negotiations. Our study aims to identify and unpack the drivers that result in this … civil society organisations (CSOs) will meet periodically to review our findings, provide insights and champion key recommendations within …
Insight, 07 June 2023
A cartoon depicting a man holding a bag labelled 'power' away from a group of serious-looking people. Speech bubbles from the man say "OK, OK, I'm giving it to you", then "But, pay attention, it's fragile", then "Be very careful", then "I'm thinking about keeping it for a few more minutes, sorry guys"
“We need a stronger taskforce”: pushing for better access to climate finance for vulnerable countries
Insight, 02 June 2021