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High-tech trawlers in the Faroe Islands. Ninety-five per cent of this tiny nation's exports is made up of fish (Photo: antonalfred, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Turning the tide: creating incentives for sustainable oceans
… In six months, policymakers will meet in New York for the ' Our Oceans, Our Future ' conference, when they will discuss how to reduce the … away from poor fishers to the operators of industrial fleets. Much work remains to be done to reform fiscal incentive structures towards a …
Insight, 17 January 2017
A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
New international development goals: score or miss?
… UN system and civil society action, global goals are a statement of our shared values and priorities as a global community. We measure what … moving forward. They argue for a single global development agenda and work hard to recognise, in equal measure, the dimensions of environment, … would like to bring in metrics on progress made towards: Reforming our financial systems “to encourage stable, long-term private foreign …
Insight, 05 June 2013
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Reframing the debate on urbanisation, rural transformation and food security
… numbers of people in rural areas buy more food than they sell. Our food security narratives are outdated: urban dwellers are not all …
Publication, 01 February 2015
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Evolving Customary Institutions in the Drylands: An opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?
… and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience. Our case study looks at a new hybrid form of customary/formal … development deficit’ than projects that focus on technical fixes or work in parallel to customary institutions. …
Publication, 01 April 2014
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… for ideas in 2017 January: IIED's director, Andrew Norton, wrote our most read blog of 2017. Looking back at the political developments … including climate action and the energy transition, the future of work, the role of civil society, land rights and inequality. Was he … and work together to build ambition on climate action. Do we want our children to inherit a disastrously depleted environment, in a world …
Article, 22 December 2017
CBA9 starts with opening speeches - but will quickly make way for films and games (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
A community of doers: celebrating the CBA conferences, and looking forward
Insight, 28 April 2015
The data for Chinchiná river basin water accounts will be collected in 2015. Making Colombian decision makers interested in using the data requires focused, relevant communication that responds to their priorities (Photo: Rosalind Goodrich/IIED)
Reminder to self: information supply needs to be driven by demand
… err on the side of information 'supply', rather than making sure our communication responds to 'demand'. We know that tailoring … might be able to use elements of the information in their everyday work. What decisions were they having to make? Who was making demands on … to look at it). Rather, it would mean understanding the concerns of our target audience, the pressures they faced and how the data we had …
Insight, 23 February 2015
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How climate finance can support sustainable development
… the Millennium Development Goals from 2015. Find out more about our work on the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 agenda: …
Publication, 01 September 2013
Three men stand on a bridge over an open culvert
Q&A: Monitoring climate change adaptation
… they get to the stage beyond where adaptation is ineffective. The work we’ve been doing with GIZ will help countries put in place systems … help countries with their adaption planning? SA: As we explain in our paper, article 7 of the Paris Agreement focuses on adaptation. … develop and build systems of adaptation and assess their progress. Our paper brings together the guidance set out in these frameworks – …
Article, 06 December 2019
A USAID programme training workers to install solar panels at health clinics in Rwanda. Rwanda is an early adopter of low-carbon climate resilient development (Photo: Walt Ratterman, Sunepi, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The political economy of financing climate resilient development
… – to support this transition to low-carbon resilient development.  Our research on LCRD uses an analytical approach known as political … policies in developing countries. In the second year of the programme our research is building on this evidence, to focus on the financing of … and most vulnerable. Working with local researchers in each of our four partner countries, we are developing case studies to: Analyse …
Article, 10 July 2015