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Do or die in Durban
… any globally agreed, legally binding mitigation targets like those under the Kyoto Protocol. In keeping with its general dislike of all … multilateral, it prefers the “pledge and review” approach promoted under the Cancun Agreements, where all countries unilaterally decide the … the US will have nothing to do with a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, other developed countries, including Japan, …
Insight, 30 November 2011
A settlement in Chabahil, an ancient town near Kathmandu in Nepal. Many countries use different definitions or 'urban' (Photo: Gordon McGranahan/IIED)
Urbanisation and emerging population issues
Project, 15 June 2015
Cover for G03081.pdf
Growing Forest Partnerships briefing: Sustainable forestry - connecting local to global and vice versa
… being committed to forests. The figure now stands at US $4-8 billion under REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest …
Publication, 01 January 2011
Cover for G03065.pdf
The Right to Food and Access to Natural Resources
… the right to food is particularly acute. IIED worked on this report under its Legal tools for citizen empowerment project. …
Publication, 01 January 2008
Cover for 9505IIED.pdf
From colonisation to consultation: Regulating use of a pastoral zone in Samorogouan, Burkina Faso
… Are natural resources in the Sahel under threat? There is widespread concern that current management …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Cover for 17066IIED.pdf
Conservation and human rights: the need for international standards
… – such as evictions and lost access to natural resources – are now under particular scrutiny, and concern is rising over the human rights …
Publication, 01 May 2010
Cover for G03225.pdf
Talking REDD+: beyond forestry – joining up and moving forward
Publication, 01 December 2011
Traffic in Kathmandu, Nepal. Sixty per cent of air pollution in Kathmandu is caused by traffic: tackling pollution while growing their economies is a key challenge for Least Developed Countries (Photo: Rachel, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
London to host international dialogue event: "How will the Least Developed Countries innovate to lift themselves out of poverty?"
News, 09 June 2016
More than 90 per cent of Malawians rely on rain-fed subsistence farming to survive. Increasingly variable weather patterns are reducing crop yields and eroding food security (Photo: ILRI/Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Q&A: We must ensure Paris delivers on finance
… have been invited to contribute as much as they can to funds formed under the convention including the Adaptation Fund. Some countries have … GEF meeting (the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is entrusted under the UNFCCC convention to operate the LDCF), we had two … but we have be mindful that in Paris we are looking at negotiations under the Climate Change Convention which puts an obligation on …
Article, 24 November 2015
Annual Report 2011/12: A lifetime of learning
… coined the term ‘sustainable development’ during the early 1970s. Under her visionary guidance, IIED was one of the first organisations to …
Page, 30 October 2012