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IIED and partner events at COP25
… is helping to build the readiness of a range of businesses to scale up low-carbon solutions (including through knowledge, technology, … UN Climate Action Summit 2019 in New York, countries were invited to sign the LIFE-AR partnership compact during COP25.  The compact is a … coastal ecosystems Community Resilience Partnership Program: scaling up investments in local adaptation Side event Date: Wednesday, 11 …
Event, 02 December 2019
A trader wades through knee-high flooded water in a marketplace
Community voices – the climate needs you in COP26 countdown
… Local Action Track will seek to push adaptation led by local people up the political agenda. It was launched at last week’s Gobeshona … still only meriting a half-hearted government response. …but bottom-up momentum is building Amid these setbacks, powerful social movements … on the ground and pushing for greater global ambition. CBA will link up with other key events, including Gobeshona and Development & Climate …
Insight, 28 January 2020
Cover for 16505IIED.pdf
Investing for sustainable development? A review of investment principles, trends and impacts
… for development. Increasing numbers of organisations are signing up to these principles for reasons that range from improving their … development? takes a first step in assessing the content, take-up, implementation and impact of investment principles. The study finds …
Publication, 01 July 2011
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
… what counts. Building infrastructure creates huge emissions and sucks up overseas resources, while conveniently venting the excess capacity of … – which the large infrastructure companies are beginning to set up and sustain with local government and communities – have real …
Insight, 19 June 2019
a turtle
Navigating ocean investments
… Concerns about the health of our ocean are rising up both the public and political agendas. Television programmes and … with private partners . Co-managed protected areas have also been set up by entrepreneurs and community groups . The arrangements can be … to raise capital (including impact investments) to cover start-up costs, such as restoring the ecosystem, purchasing equipment and …
Article, 01 October 2019
Chinese timber business in Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
China-Africa trade and investment: benefiting Africa's rural informal economy?
… 20 times in the past 15 years to reach US$200 billion last year (sign-up required) .  While Chinese investors and traders are at times accused of resource plunder or neo-colonialism in Western media (sign-up required) , I have found that the reception on the ground – …
Insight, 31 March 2015
View of Kunming, China, of a lake and houses in the background
Learning from Paris: what would ‘Kunming-compliant’ look like for development cooperation agencies?
Insight, 25 February 2021
Peruvian men and women on a mountainside, pouring water on the earth
Learning to value Mother Earth
… in his life. He knows when to plant his crops on the Altiplano high up in the Andes. In fact he grows them so successfully that he wins … they eat the money?” asks Antonio Pineda. “The money will be piled up, just the same as the minerals. But we cannot eat this. We will eat …
Article, 02 June 2013
Rehema Peter Mushi mines red garnets and sapphires in Tanzania. She recently won a grant to purchase equipment (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day
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News, 02 March 2018
Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator
COP18 Q&A: outcomes of the Doha climate talks
… for the loss and damage caused by climate change. While we didn’t set up an international mechanism on loss and damage in Doha, which is what … wanted, we have an agreement to look at the possibility of setting up an international mechanism in future. This was vehemently opposed by … want this item to remain on the agenda because they worried it opened up the door for unlimited compensation. But in the end they let the …
Article, 12 December 2012