International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Our manifesto for a thriving world presents our refreshed approach to impact. Achieving our mission means we cannot continue doing more of the same. We're challenging ourselves to take a bold new direction while retaining the best of what makes us unique. ✅ We’ll focus our attention on maximising our contribution to six core propositions at the heart of the climate, nature, and inequality crises: developing new ideas, testing innovations and advancing what works, and concentrating on what we are good at, while leaving the rest to others. ✅ We will do this in alliance with partners – new and old – who bring complementary strengths and innovations to a shared purpose. We’ll apply equitable collaboration to go well beyond the traditional project cycle. ✅ We will place much greater emphasis on learning: taking the evidence and insights from our research and experiences to adjust what we do in real time. Sound good? Read IIED’s manifesto for a thriving world and let us know what you think. --> https://lnkd.in/eTy6Jqed #manifesto #ThrivingWorld #collaboration #SustainableDevelopment

Transforming funding landscapes to benefit communities --> https://lnkd.in/eHGqs4bj In the context of slow progress towards locally-led development, could we ourselves hold the power so more and better funds reach communities fighting poverty and injustice around the world? That’s what a radical new approach from One World Together hopes, discusses Nicola Banks of the Global Development Institute.

In the current state of the world, where the impacts of #ClimateChange are felt everywhere and getting worse and conflict seems to be rising, how to we confront injustice? ⚖ Have you listened to the latest episode of IIED's #MakeChangeHappen podcast? Hear from IIED's own Tom Mitchell, Dr Tara Shine and John Taylor as well as Maria Cristina "Crissy" Guerrero from Non-Timber Forest Products – Exchange Programme as they discuss the ambitions of IIED's ‘Manifesto for a thriving world’ and the need for new responses to a range of compounding crises, greater uncertainty and growing injustice. The way that IIED has worked for decades, in partnership with others, must be embraced with fresh energy, and collective action can be a great way forward. Listen now 👇 https://lnkd.in/g4uMcHuh

Always thinking outside the box: Pablo Suarez remembered --> https://lnkd.in/gwW5x9_P We'd like to recognise the enormous loss of a dear friend and close collaborator over many years: Pablo Suarez, associate director, research and innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, who died earlier this month, aged 53. Pablo was an inspirational communicator, innovator and designer of serious fun to inspire thinking and action in the climate and development field.

WANTED: Sustainability lead --> https://lnkd.in/e_DsqtAy We are seeking a sustainability lead to join us on a permanent, part-time basis, working 17.5 hours per week. The sustainability lead will support functions across our organisation to help deliver on our sustainability commitments. Specifically, supporting improved environmental, social and governance actions, whilst setting annual sustainability targets and reporting on these to ensure we deliver on our environmental promises. This is an exceptional opportunity for a high-calibre sustainability professional with specialist knowledge of environmental and ethical targets and reporting. Your expertise will be instrumental in shaping the delivery of our sustainability strategy, addressing pressing global issues and making a meaningful difference in the world. Find out more and apply by 16 August. #sustainability #targets #strategy #policy #ApplyNow

How are civil society and impacted communities working to change the governance of land-based investments? --> https://lnkd.in/etTXAeyr The recent series of ALIGN articles shed light on how civil society, impacted communities and rights defenders across the world have used strategies such as legal action, publishing of mining contracts and stakeholder dialogues to change approaches to land-based investment governance. Nathaniah Jacobs and Amaelle Seigneret discuss. #LandRights #mining #HumanRights #CommunityAction

In the latest edition of IIED's Make Change Happen podcast, we discuss the ambitions of our ‘Manifesto for a thriving world’ and the need for new responses to a range of compounding crises, greater uncertainty and growing injustice. This podcast episode features Dr Tara Shine, chair of IIED's board; IIED trustee John Taylor, an urban planner and co-founder and former director of the Kota Kita Foundation in Indonesia; Maria Cristina "Crissy" Guerrero, head of the Sustainable Climate Adaptive Livelihood Programme of the Non-Timber Forest Products – Exchange Programme; and IIED executive director Tom Mitchell. "There are some really entrenched problems that are going to be tough to overcome: whether that's fixed mindsets or vested interests or power dynamics that repress rights and so on. We need to make sure that the solutions also help to overcome those and we tackle the things that fix the current system in place. That's what our manifesto is about... we're looking forward to working with really diverse, often unusual partners and suspects who are going to come around the table and join us in that effort to really break the mould and tackle those intractable challenges," commented Tom Mitchell. Listen now! --> https://lnkd.in/g4uMcHuh #podcast #manifesto #MakeChangeHappen #SocialJustice

Driving impact at the G20: lessons from IIED's engagement with philanthropies --> https://lnkd.in/edzFWB8t This weekend G20 Finance Ministers will meet in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and sustainable finance will be on their agenda. In preparation for November’s G20 Summit, IIED has been working with partners to influence the agenda, including by co-chairing the Civil 20 (C20) working group 9 on philanthropy and sustainable development. In a new insight, Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Paula Sevilla Núñez reflect on the ‘catalytic role’ that philanthropy can play in climate and social justice. #G20 #C20 #philanthropy #SustainableDevelopment #SocialJustice

Hot cities: researching extreme heat in the world's biggest capital cities --> https://lnkd.in/ep4awcuw Globally, average temperatures have been on the rise for the past 30 years. We have taken a deep dive into the rapidly rising temperatures across the world's 20 largest capital cities. This is an issue affecting cities in both the global North and South. For example, the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, has seen a 97% rise in the number of days reaching at least 35°C during the past 30 years, whereas in the last three decades London, UK, has seen 116 days above 30°C, with more than half of these occurring in the last 10 years. This ‘hot cities’ research highlights the urgent need for policymakers to do more to help communities adapt to the new reality of these hotter temperatures. #HotCities #HeatWave #urban #HiddenHandbrakes

We are calling on the new Labour government to take urgent action on the global nature emergency - read our statement. Also don't miss our new insights and publications. #NatureEmergency #ActNow #blogs #newsletter