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Mangroves (Blue Carbon) in the Lamu area, on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya (Photo: Peter Prokosch)
IIED at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
… applied in various contexts was also highlighted. It brought together climate scientists, adaptation practitioners, policymakers, and private … and IIED work. Related reading: Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation  | Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: … forest business Pavilion event Date:  Monday, 5 September This multi-stakeholder event launched a book describing eight locally controlled …
Event, 01 September 2016
Children using water pump in Burkina Faso
Global Water Initiative: Burkina Faso
… sanitation practices, with a view to fostering long-term behavioural change, and Improve knowledge and methods of natural-resource … to local authorities, among others, which tied into the national policy for integrated water-resource management (IWRM). In consultation … equipping and raising awareness of IWRM and the effects of climate change, especially among vulnerable groups Reducing pressure on …
Project, 16 February 2018
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… work with ICLEI. You can read about the project in  this story of change . In Zambia, project members are focusing on the country’s … Seventh National Development Plan (NDP7) and have organised a stakeholder validation workshop. The NDP will be finalised by December … in late October to discuss the national biodiversity plan and the climate change plan and how to link up initiatives such as implementing …
Article, 09 July 2013
Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!
… were being critically degraded. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly demonstrated one aspect of unsustainable development and … leaving the next generation with an environmental overdraft. We need policy to shift from viewing economic growth as inviolable to seeing …
News, 20 March 2007
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… will demonstrate nature-based solutions to global challenges such as climate change, health and supporting human life. The work of IIED Members of … RAMPAO Secretariat, Senegal; Michael Winer, Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, Australia; Michele Andrianarisata, Conservation …
Event, 12 November 2014
A forest ranger takes measurements of a tree at Megeni Kitasha in the Rombo District in Moshi, Tanzania (Photo: FAO/Simon Maina)
IIED at the XIV World Forestry Congress
… facing the sector, and propose new forms of technical, scientific and policy actions that will result in forests' greater sustainability by … and Forests (RECOFTC), ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC), Community-based Forestry Supporter's Network Nepal …
Event, 07 September 2015