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His REDD+, her REDD+: how integrating gender can improve readiness
… for readiness to reduce emissions from land use and land use changes under the UN-REDD and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility processes. …
Publication, 01 September 2012
Tidal damage on the small island nation of Kiribati. Small island developing nations, especially the atoll nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Jodie Gatfield, AusAID)
Paris Agreement must stand on three pillars
… (INDCs)  remain unclear. A multilateral agreement adopted under the Vienna Convention of Law of Treaties has the highest legal rigour under international law. Hence a vast majority of countries are calling … Countries Fund can be further strengthened to achieve ambition under the new agreement. However, the magnitude of the transition needed …
Insight, 01 June 2015
Woman filling jerry cans with water
Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
… budget cuts send entirely the wrong message to world leaders – that under-delivering for vulnerable countries is OK. Britain is putting …
Insight, 04 May 2021
Mangroves and seagrasses in Lembongan, Indonesia. Conserving mangrove forests be part of ecosystem-based adaptation, protecting coastlines and biodiversity (Photo: Steven Lutz/Blue Forests, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Help pilot the navigator of tools for ecosystem-based adaptation
… practitioners when and why EbA is effective – the conditions under which it works, and the benefits, costs and limitations of natural …
News, 15 January 2019
The community owners of a furniture factory pose for a photo
Locally controlled forest enterprises are the whole enchilada
… a workshop in the southern state of Oaxaca from 27-29 August, 2018.  Under the watchful eye of Monte Alban, from where the ancient Zapotecs … Development Goals (SDGs) . But recent research led by IIED under the title ‘ Innovations towards prosperity ’ (in press in the …
Insight, 10 September 2018
A boat floating on the water, seaweed is seen underneath.
Negotiators return to the high seas
… organisations. As a result, less than 1% of the high seas are under the strongest form of marine protection from extractive or …
Insight, 07 March 2022
People in a Nicaraguan village play a game to learn how climate change adaptation, ecosystem management and disaster risk reduction fit together (Photo: Maya Schaerer/NLRC)
Playing climate change — can games unblock the negotiations?
… Communications Day side events to the international negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These … its effects. This is something that all parties agreed to do in 1992 under Article 6 of the convention, but it's an areas in which to date …
Insight, 15 November 2013
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Agricultural investments and land acquisitions in Mali: Context, trends and case studies
… have multiplied, there is limited understanding of what works and under what conditions. This report discusses agricultural investments in …
Publication, 01 January 2013
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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… 8 Future scenarios and projections for fisheries on the high seas under a changing climate  Working paper Marine biodiversity and … trade-offs of alternative policy frameworks for governing fisheries under a changing climate. More about this work: IIED is working with the … the rights of artisanal gold miners. This briefing , produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen empowerment project , was published …
Article, 23 December 2019
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Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
… pass through internal institutional ethics reviews before they get under way. These review processes are often based on ethical principles …
Insight, 28 February 2022