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A question of time
… change Third, it is sobering to watch the slow pace of negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which reconvenes in …
Insight, 25 November 2010
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Chapter 9. LEARNING BY DOING IN CO- MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
… sweeping across the planet. Today, even remote rural livelihoods are under- ment iis tthe o only going dynamic change, and all human …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Conservation trust fund proposed to help Bangladesh increase fish stocks
News, 11 June 2015
Peñas Blancas Reservoir in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: Growing money on trees
… that as a small country we were not going to be able to compete under the original Kyoto and Clean Development Mechanisms, so we looked … FUNDECOR. This instrument sells carbon credits to national industries under the voluntary carbon market created when Costa Rica announced its …
Insight, 26 June 2012
COP17 in Durban: Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres and the President of COP17, South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (Photo: Michael Mazengarb, Creative Commons via Flickr)
United Nations climate change negotiations: IIED at COP17
… evidence for informing transparent and participatory policy making under uncertainty. The D&C Days film competition The winner of this 2011 …
Event, 20 December 2011
A man bends over to tend his crops in a field
Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
Insight, 02 September 2019
As a mountainous country, Bhutan faces particular environmental challenges (Photo: Göran Höglund, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: A pragmatic approach
… constitution mandates that 60 per cent of the country will remain under forest cover at all times, and tree planting has become something …
Article, 27 July 2016
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PLA 64 - Young citizens: youth and participatory governance in Africa
… valuable for those working in other regions.  This work is licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 …
Article, 01 December 2011
COP19 in Warsaw – a private finance climate conference?
… Mechanism – particularly across Africa, which has received under ten per cent of all CDM projects – bodes ill for the effectiveness …
Insight, 31 October 2013
Bornean orangutan. Photo: Terry Sunderland
Great apes: Their fate is ours
… then? Will the fate of gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos soon become under threat in the same way? Or can we use what we have learned from …
Insight, 24 October 2013