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COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
News, 19 December 2014
Deepwater Horizon one year on: what has the oil industry learned?
… standards and practices. Aftermath of disaster – sharpening up standards Following from the Gulf of Mexico spill, the US government … avoid such a disaster happening again, with an emphasis on sharpening up their standards and increasing oversight and assurance. But what has … operation? Issues arise when top-down enforcement of standards rubs up against a contracting, reporting and bonus-giving culture that …
Insight, 20 April 2011
Costa Rica has adapted its systems of payments for ecosystem services over the past two decades
Payments for ecosystem services: Costa Rica’s recipe
… payments were at their highest in 1998. So, why do they continue to sign up and take part? Land owners receive other important benefits from PES. …
Insight, 29 November 2013
Rains in Dlonguebougou begin with huge duststorm, big wind, howling, dust then darkness. Then heavy rain (Photo: Camilla Toulmin/IIED)
Eight insights from 30 years of visits to a village in Mali
… a large area of land.  Since then, this area has started to fill up, thanks to immigration, population growth and more ploughs, with … wave of farmers seeks land in villages like Dlonguebougou, to make up for what they have lost. 2. The farming system has run into trouble … wants to be together anymore," says the village chief. The clearest sign of this is neglect of the wooden gwele platforms, where men would …
Insight, 18 July 2014
Defining the agenda for Rio +20: my analysis
… to 2015 and beyond. A key summit outcome could be to ask countries to sign up to a number of Global Sustainability Goals to guide the world’s … two issues will come into conflict. It also recognises that it is up to governments to provide the broader policy framework that generates …
Insight, 12 January 2012
An image showing a group photo of CBA10 field trip group posing for a photo on a rooftop at the end of a long day during which the delegates made visits to four separate projects in Dhaka where communities are adapting to climate change (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
CBA10 field trips: adaptation in practice
… the next destination, an Eco-friendly Child Club that is attended by up to 50 children two days a week, and which recently successfully … campaigned for a nearby canal full of rubbish to be cleaned up by local authorities. In addition to learning more about climate … discussions to come in the conference itself. Read a round-up of field trips at CBA10 compiled via the Storify platform. Matt …
Insight, 27 April 2016
The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)
New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests
… profiles work to support artisanal loggers associations, setting up local value-adding forest product businesses, implementing timber …
News, 21 August 2018
Street scene of small shops and a rickshaw in a city in South India.
BRICS urbanisation provides lessons for economic growth and social equity
… early urbanisation sparked economic growth, the Soviet Union’s break-up left Russia with poorly located cities that lack the infrastructure …
News, 05 December 2012
In Kebkabiya, North Darfur, the NGO Practical Action has been helping communities prevent conflict between farmers and pastoralists by encouraging the construction and rehabilitation of watering points (Photo: Margaret Gardner, Practical Action)
Conflict resolution: a key part of adaptation in North Darfur
Insight, 23 April 2015
A woman walks along a bamboo walkway in Iloilo, Philippines.
Study identifies political leadership as No. 1 issue in managing disaster risk
… countries such as Austria and Pakistan. The campaign asks members to sign up to Ten Essentials for urban disaster risk reduction. The new study …
News, 04 September 2012