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Lesotho's population is heavily dependent on agriculture. Drying river systems threaten a lack of drinking water for livestock (Photo: Jonas Merian, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: Legalise Paris agreement
Article, 24 November 2015
Covers of best publications 2021.
IIED's best of 2021: publications
… outcomes, both positive and negative. Focusing specifically on poorer countries, it explores documented evidence that ‘nature-based … issue paper from July 2021 investigates how feasible it is to track this finance to the local level in LDCs and considers what … More about this work:  At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, rich countries promised to channel US$100 billion a year …
Article, 17 December 2021
A coastal river system seen from above
Developing a vision for The Gambia’s future
… world’s most ambitious . It is no surprise, then, that it is also on track to deliver another important Paris Agreement commitment: its … intended to complement and guide short-term climate action. Fifteen countries have already submitted their LTS  and many others are expected … this process. Together, we are focusing on creating space for a rich national dialogue on development models and the country’s future …
Insight, 20 April 2020
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
… Q: Lord Nicholas Stern has said developing countries must make the majority of the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions … them to do it. Q: The Kyoto Protocol, drawn up in 1997, committed all rich countries to cut carbon emissions. It is the only global treaty on … at the finance that has already been promised in the past: the fast track finance package for 3 years for $30 billion from the rich …
Article, 06 December 2012
Downtown Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania is on track to have a population over 50 million (Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
The shifting power of cities
… Let's assume you're a policy advisor in a rich country; maybe the UK, United States, Canada, Japan, France or … and focus their efforts to establish sustainable cities in low-income countries, especially in South Asia and Africa, whose cities are set for … as Lagos, Dar es Salaam, Kinshasa, Mumbai, Dhaka and Kabul are on track to each have populations in excess of 50 million. Much of the …
Insight, 05 October 2016
A man walking in a flooded street
Transitioning to a better global ‘new normal’
… most vulnerable communities in some of the most vulnerable developing countries to pursue locally led action to adapt to climate change. One … must be prepared to work across divides, to build bridges between the rich and poor, to work through ethnic and religious differences.   … and prioritises the city’s essential workers, and one that puts us on track to a clean, green future where the views and voices of all …
Insight, 22 April 2020
Boat on a lake and a waterfall in the background
Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda
… contribute over future decades to policymaking that is informed by a rich and consistent evidence base, and help to achieve better results …
Insight, 11 December 2020
A cement factory
COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?
… come. Yet, much debate has focused on policy shifts in higher-income countries and sizeable middle-income economies. For many low and middle-income countries, it may be harder to renegotiate the structures of global … voices, including from the global South. We need to collectively track developments from a global South perspective, so public action can …
Insight, 24 April 2020
Drip irrigation in Faylar village, Senegal. Investing in solar-powered water pumps and drip-feed irrigation systems can help farmers survive in times of drought (Photo: InnoAfrica, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)
Building a vision of climate resilience: questions to the adaptation community
… Lives have been lost.  Ethiopia, as one of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is highly vulnerable to climate change. Yet the LDCs … light on what works Part of the initiative will include building up a rich evidence base of long-term climate adaptation interventions that … interventions that work. Key questions  CBA events have a strong track record for creating hubs of lively and informed debate geared …
Insight, 06 March 2019
Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?
… Committee's International Development Targets. Low and middle income countries had next to no input.   Secondly, the SDGs are designed to be relevant for all countries and all people. There is a strong emphasis on dealing with … developing countries have more expertise on some of these issues than rich nations.  IIED senior fellow Dr Saleemul Huq gave a series of …
Insight, 01 March 2016