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Discussing free, prior and informed consent in REDD+
Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+: going beyond the right to say ‘no’
… scale of deforestation. Members of the Kifulu community were speaking under a tree by a roadside, near the Luki National Reserve, in the south …
Insight, 27 July 2012
Woman cooks using wood fire
Feeding all city inhabitants
… moderate to severe food insecurity. Nearly 144 million children under the age of five are stunted, and 47 million are threatened by …
Insight, 27 June 2021
Four people sat around a table speaking into microphones
The trouble with growth: Make Change Happen podcast episode 4
… we measure goods and services. A number of initiatives are already under way, including relevant policy work in Uganda Seize opportunities: …
Article, 11 March 2020
Cover for G02921.pdf
The UK's biomass energy development path
… this figure is set to rise, with biomass energy due to make up just under a third of the 2020 UK renewable energy target. Biomass energy has …
Publication, 01 November 2010
The sale of matoke in a market near Fort Portal, Uganda: green growth planning must take account of the informal economy (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Does green growth miss the majority?
… and the Egyptian government turned back to the Zabaleen for help. Under the joint management of the ministry of the environment and the …
Insight, 18 February 2016
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… is important. There is something to be said for demonstrating under one banner initiatives working to increase energy access and … interest, investment and knowledge-sharing. But initiatives coming under the SE4ALL banner must also showcase new ways of working and … and move towards truly multi-stakeholder energy delivery models. Under certain market conditions, the private sector can deliver to the …
Insight, 25 June 2012
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
… different ways of calculating how much global warming will take place under the Paris pledges that have already been made (estimates range … island nations find that the very viability of their territories is under threat. Tony de Brum, the foreign Minister of the Republic of the … of government ambition on the global stage, Janos Pasztor, the UN Under Secretary General for Climate Change, suggested that positive …
Insight, 09 December 2015
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Poverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: Lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro Pastoralist Project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate
… milk, recent years have seen pastoralist production systems operating under growing pressure and pastoralist communities becoming increasingly …
Publication, 01 May 2008
Cover for 11501IIED.pdf
Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A critique of the UNFCCC estimates
… Framework Convention on Climate Change are likely to be substantial under-estimates. Professor Martin Parry and his co-authors look at the …
Publication, 01 August 2009
A woman burns off plastic in an informal settlement
What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change
Insight, 11 June 2021