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Newsletter, April

In this newsletter we look at the overlapping crises of COVID-19 and climate change, learning from online events, green bonds and lots more.

Flooded streets and houses. In 2020 communities in Western Uganda found themselves facing the double emergency of COVID-19 and large-scale destruction caused by flash floods.

2020 in review: climate impacts in the least developed countries

While COVID-19 dominated 2020’s headlines, and rightly so, another emergency wreaked havoc in the background. As the pandemic ravaged the world, climate impacts continued to break records.

Evolving and overlapping global crises hit the world’s most vulnerable nations the hardest. Now, more than ever, world leaders must demonstrate solidarity and support with concrete action. Read the blog by IIED researcher Gabrielle Swaby.

A brown landscape with mountains in the distance. Climate change has had devastating impact on agriculture in the Mount Kenya region, Kenya.

Guest blog by Alexandre Chausson and Lydia Cole

Talking transdisciplinarity

Guest bloggers Alexandre Chausson and Lydia Cole discuss achieving research impact through co-producing knowledge in transdisciplinary teams.

Read the guest blog.

"Shared language and understanding are the foundations for achieving project impact."

Blog by Emilie Beauchamp

Towards COP26: can the Adaptation Committee progress in time?

After a year of virtual meetings, the Adaptation Committee is zeroing in on a series of key inputs for COP26. Consensus among members is vital and inclusive processes are critical. Can it deliver all key adaptation items in time?

Read the blog.

An online panel discussion with four people.

Blog by Juliette Tunstall

Seven things we learned when we moved our public events online

Taking our event programme online when COVID-19 hit was a steep learning curve, but one which brought rich opportunity for exploration and learning.

Read the blog now.

Kerinci Seblat National Park Tiger Patrol Conservation Unit personnel at Ipuh river in Indonesia.

Guest blog by Olivia Wilson-Holt

Can community rangers help tackle illegal wildlife trade?

Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are tackling wildlife crime including through working for, or establishing their own, community ranger or patrol programmes. But how effective are community-based rangers at reducing illegal wildlife trade?

Find out in the recent guest blog.

Blog by Jamie Skinner

Will green bonds boost finance flows to sustainable hydropower?

Jamie Skinner discusses the impacts of stringent new criteria on investments in sustainable hydropower projects.

Read the blog.

Research report

Ethiopian coffee marketing reforms and smallholder coffee producers: A socio-legal empowerment lens

This report examines recent Ethiopian coffee marketing reforms, focusing specifically on the participation of and outcomes for smallholder coffee farmers. The aim is to assess spaces where smallholders and cooperatives may have been able to take part in the reforms, and to highlight policy implications for considering socio-legal empowerment of smallholders in such policy reform.

Download the report.

We're hiring

IIED jobs

We're advertising a number of different roles in our climate change research group.
Programme manager - climate governance and finance: apply by 25 April
Consultant - support to development of LIFE-AR communication and engagement strategy: apply by 26 April
Project manager/senior coordinator (maternity cover): apply by 28 April
Researcher - climate finance: apply by 17 May