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A panel discusses artisanal and small-scale mining at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town (Photo: Abbi Buxton/IIED)
Building bridges between the money and the many in mining
Insight, 11 February 2014
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… and IIED was involved in hosting events with partners to highlight research findings, including work on mainstreaming biodiversity, forest …
Event, 04 December 2016
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… and participation. Yet more than a decade after that agreement, research undertaken by IIED and Natural Justice shows that many …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Animals gather in the shade of a rusting ship near the Aral Sea (Photo: Mark Pitcher)
Are Kazakhstan's plans for a greener future at risk?
Insight, 31 October 2014
Press photographers recording the opening plenary (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP19)
… The workshop programme included reports on collaborative research in Africa, Asia and Latin America by IIED and a range of …
Event, 01 January 2015
The fruit market is dominated by a small number of varieties that can withstand long distance shipping and meet supermarket demands for uniformity (Photo: Dirk Loop, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why food diversity must be on the menu
Insight, 14 October 2016
"Paz" (peace) graffiti in Medellín, Colombia. The text to the right translates as "Mural in tribute to our victims of conflict" (Photo: Cathy McIlwaine)
New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South
… the journal's co-editor Caroline Moser, of the Global Urban Research Centre , University of Manchester. "Instead of trying to solve …
News, 15 October 2014
The first photograph taken of Earthrise by Apollo 8 in December 1968. The Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change proposes large-scale public investment and determined political effort from powerful states to take down carbon energy sources (Photo: NASA/woodleywonderworks, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
What should a no-carbon democracy look like?
… The idea behind Apollo is to invest large amounts of public money in research, development and demonstration (RD&D) in a range of no-carbon …
Insight, 13 July 2015
A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
… Shakya ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Climate Change research group . …
Insight, 10 October 2016
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
Insight, 27 May 2020