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IIED and the 2021 ‘super year’
2021 is a crucial year for dealing with the climate emergency, unprecedented biodiversity loss, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. This page sets out how IIED will work with partners throughout the year at key opportunities to highlight and address these interconnected crises.
The world is dealing with multiple crises – the climate crisis, unprecedented biodiversity loss, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic.
These challenges disproportionately impact vulnerable countries, groups and individuals by exacerbating pre-existing dynamics of marginalisation and exclusion.
Strong and urgent action is needed to address these interconnected crises, including to leverage pandemic recovery packages, to drive cohesive climate, nature and development outcomes.
Ebony Holland is senior researcher in IIED s Natural Resources and Climate Change research groups
The world is dealing with multiple and intertwined crises – climate change, unprecedented biodiversity loss, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. The poor and vulnerable are disproportionately affected, and inequalities are deepening. A clear demonstration of this is in the stark difference in COVID-19 vaccination rates between developed and developing countries.
Even with the inequalities exposed by the pandemic, the recovery process provides a unique opportunity. The world is searching for practical solutions to get us through this pandemic and we won’t see this scale of economic stimulus for decades to come. We need to pivot; not resuscitate the economy of December 2019 but reimagine a better economy that places climate, nature and people at the centre.