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City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor
Article, 18 November 2008
Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
… Tony Cunningham told the audience, largely made up of development NGO staff, that climate change is “bad and getting worse,” and the effects …
Insight, 24 May 2012
The Deramakot Forest Reserve, in Sabah, Malaysia, includes a strict protection area for biodiversity conservation and a reduced-impact logging area (Photo: Angela Sevin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Duncan Poore, a leading light in sustainable forestry
… to celebrate the programme's 25th anniversary and meet its current staff and advocates. Duncan Macqueen, now a principal researcher at the …
Article, 19 October 2016
A farmer tending his sunflowers in Kenya. Credit: Abbi Buxton
A day in the life of a commercial consultant
… receiving a reply could have taken days but, since the promotion of a staff member, Mercy, to business development manager, communications has …
Insight, 14 February 2012
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Earth Summit 2012: Crucial opportunity that needs broader buy-in
… to take Rio2012 seriously. With the halls overflowing, security staff were trying in vain to get people moved off the staircases and …
Insight, 20 December 2011
The 2011 monsoon season brought unusually heavy rains and severe floods to many south-east Asian countries. Thailand was worst affected, with large parts of the Thai capital Bangkok under water (Photo: Chrisgel Ryan Cruz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Thailand's floods: complex political and geographical factors behind the crisis
… combined with the end of the fiscal year, which usually brings in new staff to key posts. The new government and the previous government have …
Insight, 02 November 2011
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… learnt of the death of our colleague, Jonathan W. Davies.   A senior staff member of Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency, Jonathan was … planning authority on board has made a significant difference – staff are now regular participants in NBSAPs activities. In fact, the …
Article, 21 March 2014
The construction of the CCCF Mega Dam in Makueni County, Kenya is an example of local action during a devolved climate finance pilot project (Photo: Japheth Mutuku)
Decentralised model gets climate finance moving
News, 02 December 2016
People stand on a sea-wall with a road and look out at the ocean.
8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas
Insight, 20 June 2013
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… introduction from director Camilla Toulmin and filmed interviews with staff showing how the work of IIED and its partners is helping to ensure …
Insight, 12 January 2015