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CBA14 closing: UK minister urges countries to allocate more finance to nature-based solutions to help tackle climate change
News, 25 September 2020
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Archive of completed 'Money where it matters' projects
Article, 20 April 2021
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Prakriti Resources Centre: climate change policy and action in Nepal
… Pandit Chhetri, PRC executive director They decided that they would work on three fronts. First, they do policy work. They advocate for … of Prakriti Resources Centre about his organisation's work How our allies and collaborators create change As part of IIED’s 50th … says: "We're not government, so we don't try to become them. We know our differences; we know where to draw the line because we're not …
Article, 30 March 2022
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External review management response (April 2017)
… IIED's main institutional funders commission an independent review of our work. This is a major undertaking, which requires work spread over a … of a broad cross-section of IIED supporters, partners and users of our work.~ ~IIED's staff have produced a management response to the …
Publication, 01 April 2017
Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Business as usual – or business with purpose?
… world and increasing urban risk.  Measuring what matters As part of our new strategy we’re scaling up our work with businesses (of all sizes) and communities to identify how to …
Insight, 17 April 2019
Many of IIED's staff travel to work by bike, taking personal responsibility for reducing their carbon footprint. IIED also has a strategy for reducing its organisational carbon footprint (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Responsible operations 2017
… and environmental sustainability update We are still well below our 2.5 per cent per year reduction target for annual emissions per FTE … the target of 9.2tCO2e).  This year saw a two per cent increase in our organisational carbon footprint on 2015/16, reflecting an increase … air travel emissions. This highlights how much the location of our work has a direct effect on our emissions (such as the increase in …
Page, 20 October 2017
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Locally led adaption to climate change: the start of a 10-year learning journey
Insight, 12 January 2021
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Wanted: an inclusive vision of urban recovery from COVID-19: Make Change Happen podcast episode 12
… IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast provides an opportunity to hear our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and … residents have been disproportionately affected. In this episode, our guests share their experience working with urban communities to …
Article, 21 June 2021
International experts on gender and employment participating in an IIED gender workshop in 2014 (Photo: Lucille Robinson/IIED)
Gender in the workplace: do families always have to lose out?
… a gender review and audit to look internally at the way we work, the issues we grapple with as men and women in leadership … in research, in the way we communicate, and the way we operate, from our front desk through to our IT. We want to recognise that we are not just professionals, but …
Insight, 15 May 2015
A traditional farmer in the Eastern Himalaya where indigenous communities use seed networks to protect their knowledge. Research should not publish details of traditional knowledge that could be used commercially without equitable benefit-sharing (Photo: Ruchi Pant/Ecoserve)
Striving for the highest standards in research ethics
… of ourselves as a morally driven organisation. We strive to live out our values of collaboration, impact and fairness in everything we do … using the principles of respect, beneficence and justice to guide our research. Our staff are committed to promoting sustainable … progress of syphilis.  It is very unlikely that any of IIED's work would have such a drastic impact on the physical wellbeing of …
Insight, 14 June 2017