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Development and Climate Days 2025 goes digital-first ahead of Brazil UNFCCC COP30
… locally-led approaches to climate action Financing resilience, and Innovation for transformation. Within each theme, D&C Days will address … questions, seek effective and practical answers, and work together on fair solutions that leave no one behind. At D&C Days, the dynamic format … to interact, challenge existing thinking and generate new ideas. Everyone at the frontline of the sustainable development and …
News, 11 September 2025
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Better lives, smaller footprints: how the sustainable development goals can help
… and panellists This event presents lessons and insights from IIED’s Ideas Fair held the previous two days. IIED’s focus on solutions which make a … innovative business models, and urbanisation that improves lives, to transforming economic systems which work for people and planet. …
Publication, 01 June 2012
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Firm and fair foundations to transform cities, transform lives
… en español A new report, ' Connecting for Common Goals ', marks IIED’s 50th birthday by exploring the … local community-based approaches. Do you think any new approaches or ideas are needed now? JH: From our perspective we don’t need new ideas, as we are dealing with the same old problems. We already have …
Article, 14 June 2022
Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
… Sustainable Development Goals recognise that energy access is crucial for giving everyone a fair chance at living a healthy, decent and dignified life. And … at identifying possible solutions. Groups self-organised around ideas for prototypes – small-scale interventions that have the potential …
Insight, 21 September 2017
A church under construction sits on a verdant green field with dark grey storm clouds behind.
Rio+20: Key recommendations from IIED conference
… Nearly 1000 people came to the Fair Ideas conference to debate topics in four broad themes: business models for sustainability, urbanisation that improves lives, transforming economic systems for people and planet, and shaping …
News, 20 June 2012
A farmer near Bagré dam in Burkina Faso dries paddy rice (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Seven papers unpick debates on African agriculture and rural development
… the effectiveness of liberalisation to catalyse sustainable and fair development point out that many big questions remain unanswered. … entrepreneurial approach. Agricultural policy choice: interests, ideas and the scope for reform Henry Bernstein and Carlos Oya … which we will publish later this year, will focus on agricultural innovation systems, the social relations of agrarian transitions, rural …
Insight, 15 October 2014
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… underneath the global meta-level of analysis there is extraordinary innovation and practice,” said the head of the UN Environment Programme, … of a green economy approach were discussed in detail at IIED’s Fair Ideas conference prior to Rio+20. One of the conference’s key …
Insight, 03 July 2012
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… already behind schedule, was put into action with rules that are fair and transparent for all.  European Capacity Building Initiative … effective approaches to providing low–carbon energy access and transforming energy systems at community level. The panelists presented … The event served as a platform for sharing new, untested ideas, initiatives in the planning stages, and current and proven …
Event, 06 November 2017
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
… had the theme ‘Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for all’. Participants came together to harness their experience, the … opportunity for informal dialogue and debate exploring key issues and ideas for future action.  Coverage We reported on D&C Days as they … not only depend on adequate adaptation finance; it also depends on fair, inclusive and just climate actions. Read the paper on  theme 4: …
Event, 08 December 2018
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… draft is:  How are we going to kick-start the finance of a green and fair economy in order to create long-term investor confidence? 3. … agree a consensus text in Rio in June. By then many of the ambitious ideas set out here may have been struck out by negotiators, or perhaps … to reverse widespread ecosystem decline. Victor Anderson, WWF-UK 5. Transforming high impact sectors and services: B We really welcome the …
Insight, 13 January 2012