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The solar panels at this rural health centre in Uzbekistan help provide power for electricity and heating. A safe, reliable and affordable energy supply allows the clinic to improve the quality of medical services it can offer (Photo: UNDP in Uzbekistan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Civil society coalition calls for inclusive Sustainable Energy for All agenda
… the fact that civil society forms the third pillar of the Secretary-General's High Level Group's framework for action alongside government …
News, 18 May 2015
Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)
Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture
… 'Caminamos juntos!' – 'Let's walk together' – said the director-general of FAO, José Graziano da Silva, addressing around 400 people at … systems. Indeed, in the last month alone I've attended three large events on the topic. In early September I presented the IIED paper … often-overlooked agroecology into the FAO setting. The FAO Director-General likened the meeting to "a new window" opened in the cathedral of …
Insight, 02 October 2014
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru
… or on IIED's YouTube channel . [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLI2KySC9-U] Using the EbA Evidence and Policy project's common … We supported the participation of Peru’s climate change director general in the Ministry of Environment as a panelist in the session …  (in Spanish) at the IUCN World Conservation Congress . The director general highlighted how Peru has been integrating and promoting NbS and …
Project, 04 September 2018
Cover for G02137.pdf
In touch (PLA 52)
… In Touch section is packed with book reviews, details of forthcoming events and training, website reviews and other online resources. You can … Publications, London, UK. Participatory Learning and Action 52 is a general issue. It includes a wide selection of articles, extracts and …
Publication, 01 June 2005
Participants at the CGIAR Climate Social Learning evidence gathering workshop, including IIED director of communications Liz Carlile (standing) (Photo: CCAFS)
Which factors are key for successful social learning?
… "We've made good progress in the workshop towards a simple yet general monitoring and evaluation framework for evaluating the social …
Insight, 14 July 2014
World flags flying
COP26 hangs in the balance if G20 fails to show solidarity with climate-vulnerable countries by delivering action
… climate finance ahead of COP26.  As well as the G20 meetings, the UN General Assembly in October is another milestone moment for new …
Insight, 07 July 2021
Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… targets while engaging a varied audience from government to general members of society who care about the health of our planet; for … partners attended the congress, and played a key role in a number of events and activities, which are detailed below. IIED aims to support … to conservation goals from local to global levels.  IIED and partner events Biocultural Heritage Territories: Scaling up the Potato Park to …
Event, 12 November 2014
A host of government leaders made pledges at the 2015 UN Climate Summit hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (Photos: Saleemul Huq/IIED)
A week that may change the world
… [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3klSj64mNEw] I have just returned from an exhilarating and exhausting … of 38 representatives from global civil society invited by Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to attend the UN Climate Summit . The week kicked … September, the official Climate Summit started in the United Nations General Assembly hall with an opening ceremony that included speeches …
Insight, 25 September 2014
Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.
Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?
Insight, 24 October 2021
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
… new Sustainable Sevelopment Goals (SDGs), due to be agreed at the UN General Assembly in September . The UN climate talks in Paris in …
Insight, 28 August 2015