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Layering Interventions Is Necessary To Address Loss and Damage Effectively
Loss and damage due to climate change is happening now and will increase as temperatures rise. Governments and communities must act urgently to address the risks vulnerable people face, but there is little agreement on how to do so in practice. As Nora Nisi explains, layering interventions offers a valuable way of taking action in a comprehensive way.
Loss and damage due to climate change is happening now and will increase as temperatures rise. Governments and communities must act urgently to address the risks vulnerable people face, but there is little agreement on how to do so in practice. As Nora Nisi explains, layering interventions offers a valuable way of taking action in a comprehensive way.
Channelling the Capacity and Creativity of Youth To Lead the Green Transition
Guest blogger Vanesa Castán Broto describes how young people’s needs and priorities are often ignored, as is their potential to contribute creative solutions, and their role in stimulating green growth.
Guest blogger Vanesa Castán Broto describes how young people’s needs and priorities are often ignored, as is their potential to contribute creative solutions, and their role in stimulating green growth.
How Can Loss and Damage Finance Reach Those Enduring Climate Catastrophe?
As global heating causes loss and damage to escalate rapidly, new and additional large-scale financing is needed to protect lives, livelihoods and ecosystems, especially in the poorest countries and communities. Clara Gallagher and Simon Addison explore some of the ways that different financial instruments might be layered to get the right kinds of finance to the right place at the right time to implement a variety of loss and damage measures.
As global heating causes loss and damage to escalate rapidly, new and additional large-scale financing is needed to protect lives, livelihoods and ecosystems, especially in the poorest countries and communities. Clara Gallagher and Simon Addison explore some of the ways that different financial instruments might be layered to get the right kinds of finance to the right place at the right time to implement a variety of loss and damage measures.
Redefining Smallholder Farmer Inclusion in Modern Value Chains: Three Ways Forward
A new report from IIED explores why expectations of including smallholder farmers in modern value chains have fallen short, and suggests new and more realistic ways of getting inclusion to work for smallholders.
A new report from IIED explores why expectations of including smallholder farmers in modern value chains have fallen short, and suggests new and more realistic ways of getting inclusion to work for smallholders.
Planning Land Use and Access in Tanzania: Women Have Their Say
Guest blogger Isabella Nchimbi describes how an innovative project captures the perspectives of women in rural communities to inform land use planning.
Guest blogger Isabella Nchimbi describes how an innovative project captures the perspectives of women in rural communities to inform land use planning.
Private Insurance Policies Launched To Protect Elephants in Kenya and Sri Lanka
Compensating farmers for damage to crops and property could reduce human-wildlife conflict.
Compensating farmers for damage to crops and property could reduce human-wildlife conflict.
Pandemic Lessons From Karachi
Our guest bloggers reflect on what was learned about COVID-19 in Karachi, about responses and their limitations – responses done badly, not at the scale needed, or not at all – as if the pandemic were no longer an issue.
Our guest bloggers reflect on what was learned about COVID-19 in Karachi, about responses and their limitations – responses done badly, not at the scale needed, or not at all – as if the pandemic were no longer an issue.
COP27: Re-Imagining Partnerships for Adaption Finance
Climate finance has been central to UNFCCC discussions for many years and, while some progress has been made, the financing gaps are increasing, leading to frustration and mistrust by developing countries that continue to experience unprecedented impacts of climate change from the rising costs of loss and damage. Will COP27 be any different?
Climate finance has been central to UNFCCC discussions for many years and, while some progress has been made, the financing gaps are increasing, leading to frustration and mistrust by developing countries that continue to experience unprecedented impacts of climate change from the rising costs of loss and damage. Will COP27 be any different?
Law, Economies and Justice: A New Programme
Lorenzo Cotula outlines a new IIED programme exploring the role of law in strategies to promote fairer, more sustainable economies
Lorenzo Cotula outlines a new IIED programme exploring the role of law in strategies to promote fairer, more sustainable economies
A Narrative for Change: How Can Racism in Storytelling Impact Development?
For many years the aid and development sectors have been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes and bias in storytelling.
For many years the aid and development sectors have been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes and bias in storytelling.
Caste, Unemployment and Loss of Property Raise Likelihood of Migration in Areas of India Hit by Climate Change
Most marginalised people vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour as a result.
Most marginalised people vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour as a result.
Legal Empowerment With a Gender Lens: How Women Tea Farmers in Malawi Are Claiming Their Rights
Guest blogger Kumvana Mtukule describes how the work of a women’s rights organisation in Malawi supported smallholder tea farmers to claim their rights and assert agency.
Guest blogger Kumvana Mtukule describes how the work of a women’s rights organisation in Malawi supported smallholder tea farmers to claim their rights and assert agency.
Three Asks To Strengthen Locally-Led Action in New Biodiversity Finance
When negotiators and experts met in Nairobi in June 2022 for the latest round of discussions on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), mobilising finance to implement the strategy was a hot issue. But as Minnie Degawan and Ebony Holland highlight, discussions fell short because they failed to prioritise finance for local action.
When negotiators and experts met in Nairobi in June 2022 for the latest round of discussions on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), mobilising finance to implement the strategy was a hot issue. But as Minnie Degawan and Ebony Holland highlight, discussions fell short because they failed to prioritise finance for local action.
A Call to Action for People and Nature
Ensuring local rights and ownership, and promoting the sustainable use of wildlife, were top of our agenda at the inaugural Africa Protected Areas Congress in Kigali, Rwanda, last month.
Ensuring local rights and ownership, and promoting the sustainable use of wildlife, were top of our agenda at the inaugural Africa Protected Areas Congress in Kigali, Rwanda, last month.
What Lessons Can We Learn From COVID-19 Responses in African Cities?
For low-income residents in African cities, the COVID-19 pandemic has often been experienced less as a health crisis and more in terms of the devastating socioeconomic, political and violent impacts arising from lockdown measures and other responses.
For low-income residents in African cities, the COVID-19 pandemic has often been experienced less as a health crisis and more in terms of the devastating socioeconomic, political and violent impacts arising from lockdown measures and other responses.