The methodology designed by a women-led social movement from the global South has enabled tower-block tenants in inner-city Manchester to address health and social inequalities.
Loss and Damage Does Not Happen in a Vacuum – It Relates to Power and Politics
Anna Carthy discusses the importance of understanding the history, politics and power dynamics that create vulnerability to loss and damage. Loss and damage is linked to colonial histories and to intersectional marginalisation, and it can be caused by both climate impacts and by climate action.
Anna Carthy discusses the importance of understanding the history, politics and power dynamics that create vulnerability to loss and damage. Loss and damage is linked to colonial histories and to intersectional marginalisation, and it can be caused by both climate impacts and by climate action.
From Paris to Pandemic: Charting the Changing Landscape for Sustainable Development
Andrew Norton reflects on changes to the global context for sustainable development since becoming director of IIED in 2015, and suggests what we might learn by comparing the hopeful post-Paris landscape to today’s geopolitical turmoil.
Andrew Norton reflects on changes to the global context for sustainable development since becoming director of IIED in 2015, and suggests what we might learn by comparing the hopeful post-Paris landscape to today’s geopolitical turmoil.
How Women Leaders Are Getting Better Social Protection for the Vulnerable
Ritu Bharadwaj and Daljeet Kaur discuss how women leaders in India are showing the way for enhancing access to social protection and delivering climate resilience at scale.
Ritu Bharadwaj and Daljeet Kaur discuss how women leaders in India are showing the way for enhancing access to social protection and delivering climate resilience at scale.
Moving Forward With Communal Land Rights in Ethiopia: What Are the Legal Solutions?
In Ethiopia, pastoralist communities and other communal land users face significant threats due to government policies that favour large-scale land investments and erode communal land rights. Here, Daniel Behailu and Nathaniah Jacobs discuss the importance of developing laws that recognise and respect communal land rights in Ethiopia, potential legal solutions, and why change will require community engagement and social legitimacy to work.
In Ethiopia, pastoralist communities and other communal land users face significant threats due to government policies that favour large-scale land investments and erode communal land rights. Here, Daniel Behailu and Nathaniah Jacobs discuss the importance of developing laws that recognise and respect communal land rights in Ethiopia, potential legal solutions, and why change will require community engagement and social legitimacy to work.
How the Amazon Bioeconomy Can Catalyse an Inclusive Green Economy
Guest blogger Virgilio Viana explains the vast potential of the Amazon bioeconomy to promote equity, deliver prosperity, foster sustainable production and protect nature.
Guest blogger Virgilio Viana explains the vast potential of the Amazon bioeconomy to promote equity, deliver prosperity, foster sustainable production and protect nature.
Preventing Future Pandemics Means Taking a Considered Approach to Wildlife Trade and ‘Wet Markets’
Calls for the regulation of wildlife meat, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, can overlook the complex motivations of traders and consumers. With research showing that wildlife is an infrequent source of human illness, attempts to tackle the source of zoonotic diseases effectively should consider the broader range of interactions between humans, livestock, wildlife and ecosystems.
Calls for the regulation of wildlife meat, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, can overlook the complex motivations of traders and consumers. With research showing that wildlife is an infrequent source of human illness, attempts to tackle the source of zoonotic diseases effectively should consider the broader range of interactions between humans, livestock, wildlife and ecosystems.
Urban Climate Justice: Connecting Social Justice and Decarbonisation
To achieve sustainable urbanisation, cities must build inclusive systems that reduce inequality while enabling pathways to net zero.
To achieve sustainable urbanisation, cities must build inclusive systems that reduce inequality while enabling pathways to net zero.
Making the Most of Migration: Mobility in the Context of the Climate Emergency
Cities should recognise migrants and forcibly displaced people as city residents and incorporate them into planning processes, including climate-resilience planning.
Cities should recognise migrants and forcibly displaced people as city residents and incorporate them into planning processes, including climate-resilience planning.
Building Better Cities: Responding to the Twin Challenge of Inequality and Climate Change
How can cities promote resilient, low-carbon and just urbanisation, in a context of increasing climate breakdown and inequality? IIED’s urban researchers set out a vision for urban transformation to build just and inclusive cities.
How can cities promote resilient, low-carbon and just urbanisation, in a context of increasing climate breakdown and inequality? IIED’s urban researchers set out a vision for urban transformation to build just and inclusive cities.
Embracing Disruptive Resilience
Urban areas are increasingly threatened by the impacts of climate change. IIED's Human Settlements research group is exploring new approaches for involving local communities in reducing risk and building resilience.
Urban areas are increasingly threatened by the impacts of climate change. IIED’s Human Settlements research group is exploring new approaches for involving local communities in reducing risk and building resilience.
No Climate Justice Without Housing Justice
Climate justice in cities must align with efforts to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that the impacts of climate change and efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle housing injustices.
Climate justice in cities must align with efforts to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that the impacts of climate change and efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle housing injustices.
Better Cities Are Possible: Achieving Resilient, Low-Carbon and Inclusive Urban Development
This is a series of articles setting out a vision for urban transformation that responds to the twin crises of climate change and inequality.
This is a series of articles setting out a vision for urban transformation that responds to the twin crises of climate change and inequality.
The Role of Urban Green Space: How London Got Its Parks
Given the renewed interest in green space in cities – for physical and mental health, sport, enjoyment, relief from extreme high temperatures (providing moderating heat islands) and improving air quality – here is a blog on how London got its parks.
Given the renewed interest in green space in cities – for physical and mental health, sport, enjoyment, relief from extreme high temperatures (providing moderating heat islands) and improving air quality – here is a blog on how London got its parks.
Practical Lessons on Implementing Business Unusual
Responding to the least developed countries’ call for a move away from business-as-usual climate action, IIED has been embedding business-unusual approaches in our ways of working. This blog shares some of our learning.
Responding to the least developed countries’ call for a move away from business-as-usual climate action, IIED has been embedding business-unusual approaches in our ways of working. This blog shares some of our learning.
AB Consultants: Mitigating Risks for People on Low Incomes
AB Consultants is a consulting firm set up by two women determined to promote inclusive insurance as a tool for alleviating poverty.
AB Consultants is a consulting firm set up by two women determined to promote inclusive insurance as a tool for alleviating poverty.