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Critical themes (event)
IIED's critical themes seminars are designed to explore new ideas and broaden the knowledge of our staff. These events are usually open to researchers and students from other organisations.
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Critical themes at IIED
IIED set up the 'critical theme' discussion series to explore new ideas and to broaden the knowledge of its staff and partners. Events are also open to members of the public.
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Critical theme: Can insurance promote human wildlife co-existence?
Join us for a discussion about the potential role of insurance in mitigating human-wildlife conflict.
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Critical theme: How can inclusive finance accelerate universal energy access?
In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 7 – universal energy access – by 2030, the enormous public and private energy financing gap must be bridged. On 14 November 2019, IIED hosted a critical theme to debate the role that investors and finance intermediaries could play to reach SDG7
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Critical theme: Can China help build a global eco-civilisation?
China's role in global governance is growing. This increased engagement has important implications for global climate and biodiversity issues – and how they may play out at the local level. On 25 September 2019, IIED and chinadialogue hosted a critical theme to discuss China’s institution-building, and challenges and opportunities in global green governance
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Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Keynote speaker Alex Randall, the programme manager at the Climate and Migration Coalition, an alliance of refugee, human rights, and migration rights organisations, argued that the story presented about the connection between climate change and the Syrian conflict has not always been accurate
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Critical theme: tackling inequality and unsustainable consumption
On 20 April IIED hosted a discussion meeting to look at how organisations and researchers can collaborate to develop policies that could reduce inequality and lessen the impact of over consumption on the environment
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IIED seminar on locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
A "Critical Theme" seminar on Tuesday, 7 July looked at the benefits and challenges of locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
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Empowered women = happy planet? Gender equality in a changing environment
IIED's May Critical Theme seminar explored challenging questions on gender equality, women's empowerment and environmental change.
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Critical theme: China pollution, social media and politics
Our March Critical Theme seminar looked at the environmental and political issues raised by raised by the film "Under the Dome", made by one of China's leading investigative journalists, Chai Jing.
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IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security
The head of the Food Systems Programme Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) highlighted the links between food security and environmental change at an IIED seminar
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Critical theme: Governing Marine Protected Areas
The governance framework of marine resources was the focus when the latest in a series of seminars at IIED took place on 6 October, 2014
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Critical theme: Introducing the Asian Coalition for Community Action
Urban poverty reduction was the focus when the latest in a series of seminars at the International Institute for Environment and Development took place on July 2
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Critical theme: What would business look like in a steady-state economy?
The latest in a series of seminars at IIED focusing on financial themes took place on 21 May with a discussion regarding the private sector and sustainable business practices
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Critical theme: How can the financial system serve a green and inclusive economy?
A series of seminars at IIED focusing on financial themes began on May 15 with a discussion addressing the relationship between financial systems and the green economy
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Understanding what's at stake
The importance of meaningful stakeholder reporting was the subject of a presentation by Pavan Sukhdev at the International Institute for Environment and Development
