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CBA19 offered important insights and innovative solutions on how locally-led action can help urban spaces not only adapt to ...
A local government/grassroots federation partnership, combined with sweat equity, can be very effective at producing ...
As growing demand for ‘critical minerals’ and global geopolitical rivalries prompt new interest in transport infrastructure ...
This paper calls for a transformative approach to energy planning and delivery that focuses on a more holistic and ...
Any new regulation is likely to impact Indigenous and small-scale farmers, who are often overlooked and have little or no ...
Least developed countries, Small Island Developing States and other vulnerable countries are experiencing spiralling climate impacts and wrestling with debt distress that leaves them unable to build ...
Knowledge sharing from nine countries confirms that upgrading informal settlements serves as a powerful form of climate action – integrating resilience, sustainability and justice. A series of ...
This week’s replenishment phase meetings for the Global Environment Facility in Paris need to look at access and transparency issues. Not enough money from a key global fund designed to protect nature ...
Local communities in Bangladesh, especially women, face growing challenges in accessing safe water due to the rise of sea levels (Photo: UNDP Climate, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) The world’s poorest ...
The launch of a refugee integration strategy by Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) this month builds on an ongoing collaboration between IIED and SDI-Kenya, who have been engaging NCCG on ways to ...
In this episode, senior IIED researcher Karen Wong-Pérez talks about global progress towards gender justice and why the journey towards gender-just environmental action isn’t moving quickly enough. In ...
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) offers a promising path forward. EbA is a strategy that uses natural solutions, like restoring forests and wetlands, to help people adapt to climate change. By ...