Jan 27, 2025 · Explore the best of 2024 with the top 10 most-read IIED insights and publications, our reflection on the climate and nature COPs, and the latest Make Change Happen podcast episode that reviewed the last 12 months and highlighted some key issues for 2025

This strategy was revisited in August 2020 following the COVID-19 pandemic, with updates around changing priorities and ways of working ; From now to 2024, we will play our part to make change happen. We will help vulnerable communities achieve climate resilience and development, simultaneously pushing hard for global action to restrict planetary warming to 1.5°C.

We reviewed and rewrote our core organisational values to ensure they are fit for the future. IIED has a collaborative culture that thrives on teamwork and consultation, so we brought this approach to developing this new set of values. The process involved all IIED staff, along with associates, board members and Southern partners. The result is a set of values that are shaped and owned by ...

Mar 31, 2013 · IIED's board of trustees is legally responsible for all the activities that we undertake. The trustees are all unpaid volunteers who are responsible for ensuring that IIED abides by its charitable aims, works within the law and delivers its mission effectively by overseeing our overall policies and objectives and ensuring …

Jul 10, 2024 · Following a year of review and dialogue, this manifesto presents IIED's refreshed approach to impact. This new approach to working on problems, in equitable learning partnerships, focuses on specific propositions to progress towards a thriving world.

Rethink our approach to impact: our ways of working, focus, tactics and measures of success have been rethought to maximise the contribution we can make to tackling complex crises.After identifying and drilling into the big blockers - the obstacles that hold in place and perpetuate the interconnected crises facing us, we identified opportunities for IIED to address four of …

In 1978, our 'Banking on the Biosphere' work sparked a revolution in the environmental performance of multilateral and bilateral agencies.. Just over a decade later, in 1989, we helped to pave the way for the concept of a green economy by publishing ‘Blueprint for a Green Economy’. As a member of the Green Economy Coalition, we’re still working to …

We have delivered original, rigorous research that helps to drive progress, support sustainable development and protect the environment for over 50 years. Now we're offering different answers and approaches in order to achieve our mission.

Jul 16, 2024 · Building momentum for local climate leadership. Our climate advocacy wasted no time. At January’s Climate Adaptation Summit, all 40 members of the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) endorsed eight principles for locally led adaptation.The principles, created and published by IIED in consultation with partners and other GCA actors, call on governments, global institutions, and local and ...

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