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Inspiring climate leaders, such as UNECA's Fatima Denton, are needed for Africa to tackle climate change (Photo: UNECA)
Africa moves ahead to tackle climate change
Insight, 17 November 2014
ON AIR: a local farmer joins a broadcaster in the studio of KRC.FM (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Radio and text messages keep farmers in the loop in Rwenzori
… and millions of livelihoods depend on it. KRC's focus is to package up their research – often complex, scientific information – and get it … information loop, questions prompted by the regular texts and picked up over the phone may then be fed back to inform another SMS as Kaliisa … the difficulties caused by low-literacy levels. KRC.FM has only been up and running for eight months, but in that short time, listener …
Insight, 19 March 2015
A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
Insight, 03 September 2020
Women carrying emergency shelter kits
The UK’s backward step on global development
Insight, 17 June 2020
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… in. Working with community federations of the urban poor is a 'bottom up' approach to achieve adaptation at scale, which also has benefits for … shack and slum dwellers associations have the potential to scale up community-based adaptation projects and initiatives and continue the … Communities can influence donors to fund capacity building to scale up and popularise the issue of climate change in cities." Saleemul Huq, …
News, 28 April 2016
People protesting
COP25 policy and activism: we deserved better
… Despite this, the decision not to cancel the talks was a positive sign, amounting to international recognition of urgency. So why was it … climate activists rally, those countries have every reason to step up. Despite the sidelining at COP25, civil society’s engagement and … into this important new year with the hope that governments will wake up and heed the call for climate action and justice by COP26 . …
Insight, 13 January 2020
Conference organiser Saleemul Huq receives the "Burtoni" award: from left to right: Ian Burton (IPCC lead author), Roger Jones (CSIRO), Atiq Rahman (BCAS), Saleemul Huq (IIED) and Richard Klein (SEI) (Photo: IISD)
2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2)
… (UNFCCC)  in 1992. He added that a reverse process of "flooding up" was needed, to allow adaptation information to be brought to the …
Article, 14 April 2016
A community-owned Mexican sawmill in Oaxaca (Photo: Duncan Macqueen)
Incendiary observations from the 4th FLARE conference
… knock ‘mutual learning’ – that’s how the sparks of good ideas flare up, leaping from place to place: hence the name.   This year’s … trees while leaving the forest canopy intact. Logging roads open up access for agricultural conversion – but in the big picture, logging …
Insight, 22 October 2018
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
Article, 17 December 2020
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… we don't yet have what it takes to speed the transformation process up. According to Nick Mabey, the models for transitioning away from our … this with Leo Johnson in Turnaround Challenge , and the ideas we came up with then are informing some of IIED's work on sustainable markets . … of those at the margins. He advised funding bodies not to give up too soon on experiments that appeared to be struggling early on. …
Insight, 21 March 2016