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A sustainable future for the polar regions
With climate change the environment in the polar regions is changing significantly – with increasing opportunities and pressures for development in these regions. A new IIED briefing paper argues that these challenges demand holistic and integrated responses through a  regional, sustainable development-focused approach supported by tools such as environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and sustainability appraisal
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IIED launches website on Environmental Mainstreaming
part of a project to develop a User Guide to approaches, tools and tactics for integrating/mainstreaming environment in development decision-making.
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Peer Review of the Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development. Report launched in Amsterdam
The review, advised and facilitated by IIED’s Barry Dalal-Clayton, was undertaken by experts from Finland, Germany and South Africa. It has stimulated a reinvigorated approach to sustainable development in the Netherlands by the new coalition government.
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Read the latest updates to our projects under the themes, 'Strategies for Sustainable Development', and 'Environmental Assessment'. Plus news of our new project, 'A User Guide to tools for environmental integration'.

IIED completes review of monitoring mechanisms for national sustainable development strategies (NSDS).
This review by Barry Dalal-Clayton and Steve Bass was commissioned by the Environment Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It provides a background document for a forthcoming OECD workshop on NSDS in Stockholm in late August 2006. The report briefly reviews a range of NSDS monitoring approaches and explores the potentials and challenges of monitoring in relation to five key strategy elements: (a) the strategy process, (b) strategy content or products, (c) outcomes and (d) impacts. In addition, the key tasks of (e) disseminating and using monitoring information are discussed.
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OECD DAC Guidance on SEA wins prestigious award
For the past two years, IIED has provided a Technical Secretariat to the OECD DAC Task Team on strategic environmental assessment (SEA). The Task Team has recently completed the preparation of Guidance on the use of SEA in development cooperation. The contribution of this path-breaking effort to SEA thinking and application was recognised last week when the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) bestowed its 2006 Institutional Award to the Task Team. Work is continuing with a focus on implementation. For further information, see: www.seataskteam.net. As an input to this work, in 2005, IIED and Earthscan published a sourcebook on SEA and is finalising a sister volume on sustainability appraisal (due November 2006).
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Peer review methodology for national sustainable development strategies
IIED has recently helped the French government to develop a methodology for the peer review of national strategies for sustainable development and facilitated its testing using the French strategy as a pilot case.
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Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)
A new international review of SEA by Barry Dalal-Clayton and Barry Sadler has just been published by IIED with the OECD and UNEP in association with Earthscan Publications.
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Sustainability appraisal
Barry Dalal-Clayton and Barry Sadler have prepared a draft review of international experience and practice in sustainability appraisal.
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