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Men queue in front of a table. A woman hands them bags.
Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
Insight, 13 October 2021
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… the Global Commission on Adaptation and including IIED and the World Resources Institute. Endorsing these principles and embracing the …
Article, 17 December 2021
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PLA65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent
… and well-being. But with the loss of biodiversity, valuable resources such as climate-resilient crops, medicinal plants and wild … – in which communities set out their customary rights to natural resources and land, as recognised in customary, national and … decide whether or not to allow projects affecting their land or resources to go ahead, and on what terms. The issue reviews experiences …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Drilling for oil in Mali.
IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
… tax evasion. It excludes citizens from decisions about local natural resources. Rather than helping to tackle poverty, bad deals can … sustainable development based on effective management of those resources. New US and EU legislation – the US Dodd-Frank Act and the EU … environment, local livelihoods, human rights, and access to land and resources.” Related IIED reports: Making consent work for quality …
News, 14 June 2013
From decentralised finance to legal tools, this map showing real examples of innovative governance from around the world highlights seven tried-and-tested methods of empowering local institutions (Image: IIED)
Mapping innovative governance for sustainable development
Article, 24 November 2015
An image of a hilsa fish caught in a net. More than 90 per cent of the global catch of hilsa is shared between neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Myanmar and India (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)
Scientists from Bangladesh, India and Myanmar are calling on their countries to develop a shared plan for sustainably managing the hilsa fishery
… presented at a two-day meeting in Dhaka on 4 and 5 May. "Fisheries resources across the Bay of Bengal are being degraded and overexploited … trans-boundary hilsa fishery management and other marine and riverine resources. As well as a crucial chance to share learning from the …
News, 05 May 2016
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Getting housing back onto the development agenda in the time of COVID-19
Publication, 01 August 2020
Half of top ten countries most at risk from climate change already in or at high risk of entering debt distress
… service suspension initiative (DSSI) to free up countries’ financial resources to combat and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, it only …
News, 20 April 2022
Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation
… Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as … to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet across the world, these resources are fast-diminishing under the weight of pollution, land … can be used to incentivize the conservation of marine and coastal resources. It is shown that traditional approaches to halt the decline …
Publication, 01 November 2013
Person walks among destroyed housing
Innovative insurance could prevent sovereign debt defaults in wake of climate disasters
… other shocks that require emergency borrowing, freeing up a country’s resources that would otherwise be used to repay debts. It would also …
News, 27 April 2023