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A wildfire burns a forest. A man climbs a fire engine and another one, wearing a mask, walk on the road.
Sounding the alarm: new IPCC report reinforces urgency for G20 to take stronger climate action
Insight, 09 August 2021
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… ).  What’s more, a hard-hitting film telling the stories of Nairobi’s urban refugees in their own words won best documentary at the Eldoret … protects livelihoods as well as nature and to get money where it matters so poorer communities can access funds and adapt to climate … gardens on vacant city plots were providing vital nutrition for the urban poor , and this was accompanied by a video with her and the Quezon …
Insight, 28 December 2021
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… is both challenging and different from business incubation in urban settings and includes detailed case studies of efforts to deliver … Northern Nigeria since 2010. About two million people have fled into urban areas around crisis zones. However, barely 10 per cent of these … paper explores the difficult situations facing IDPs in the major urban areas of Kano and Maiduguri, focusing on women and children. It …
Article, 21 December 2018
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… investments in low and middle-income countries. Urbanisation, rural–urban migration and urban poverty Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, … related to urbanisation and rural-urban migration . Our new  Urban Matters blog  focuses on urban poverty, climate change in cities and …
Article, 31 December 2015
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Business as usual – or business with purpose?
… the climate crisis; the assault on the natural world and increasing urban risk.  Measuring what matters As part of our new strategy we’re scaling up our work with …
Insight, 17 April 2019
A Kenyan woman farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region (Photo: Google licence)
Toulmin: "Soil is the foundation for a prosperous society"
News, 10 December 2014
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
Insight, 31 July 2020
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
Insight, 31 October 2019
Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030
… managing terrestrial ecosystems and providing safe and resilient urban environments. There are gaps in this aspirational agenda – … fisheries , and David Satterthwaite's thoughts on the SDGs and 'a new urban agenda' .   In the run-up to Paris and beyond we will be focusing … Providing substantial and effective support to the poorest countries matters for two reasons. Firstly, these countries suffer the worst …
Insight, 10 September 2015