Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries
As international climate and biodiversity talks continue and conservation experts gather this week at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Ebony Holland shares recent research outlining how nature-based solutions are being placed front and centre by least developed countries.
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Liz Carlile and Tara Shine in conversation
IIED at 50 must be ready to listen and change
As IIED turns 50, IIED's director of communications Liz Carlile talks to board our chair Dr Tara Shine about what the institute represents now and where we need to go in the future.
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"Now as the urgency to protect, restore and regenerate nature steps up, and as the urgency around climate action steps up, it’s even more important that we don’t forget about people – otherwise we risk trampling on them in pursuit of saving the planet."
– Dr Tara Shine
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Online event
Climate-induced migration and modern slavery: panel discussion
How is climate-induced migration creating vulnerability to modern slavery and what are the solutions? A new report from Anti-Slavery International and IIED is among the first to outline the critical link between climate-induced migration and modern slavery.
This ground-breaking report provides important new evidence to inform the UNFCCC COP26 and other high-level bodies. This high level panel launch event will feature discussion from experts on modern slavery and climate change as well as real life experiences of forced labour.
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Blog by Phil Franks
Does the Global Biodiversity Framework offer a plan B for protected areas?
Phil Franks examines why – to date – strategies to halt biodiversity loss have largely failed, and discusses a way forward for protected areas and other forms of area-based conservation that is not only inclusive but also equitable.
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Blog by Tracy Kajumba and Ritu Bharadwaj
Integrating gender and intersectionality in social protection programmes
Reflecting on recent IIED research examining the impact of COVID-19 on women in India, Tracy Kajumba and Ritu Bharadwaj explain why gender and intersectionality must be embedded in social protection programmes.
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Guest blog by Artwell Kadungure and Alice Sverdlik
Making strides to improve health and climate resilience in Zimbabwe’s cities
Guest blogger Artwell Kadungure and IIED's Alice Sverdlik report on how real progress is being made to improve the lives and livelihoods of informal workers as a result of collaboration with key policymakers.
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Guest blog by Zenebech Mesfin
Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance
Guest blogger Zenebech Mesfin describes the efforts of Zambian traditional leaders to promote gender equality in the management of land and natural resources at the national level.
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Blog by David Satterthwaite
Do urban populations benefit from urban bias?
Conventional wisdom suggests that most poverty is in rural areas. But as there is so little research, how can we know if this is true?
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Project report, 55 pages
Routes to change: rural women’s voices in land, climate and market governance in sub-Saharan Africa
This report, through a cross-sectoral analysis of three recent case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, maps out the most effective tools and approaches for strengthening rural women’s voices in decision-making processes. The authors examine which are the key factors enabling or constraining rural women’s voices, what the main challenges are that practitioners should be aware of, and how projects can ensure rural women are able to participate in and influence decision making affecting their livelihoods.
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Toolkit, 75 pages
Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
In 2020 governments from more than 80 countries signed a “Leaders Pledge for Nature”, committing to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030, and sending a united signal to step up global ambition for nature, climate and people. These commitments demonstrate that governments worldwide are recognising the interdependencies between the economy, society and biodiversity, and the importance of taking action.
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