European Union (EU)

Will a standard for social responsibility make any difference?

11 April 2012

Blog entry

Policy and planning
Sustainable markets

Over the past twenty years non-governmental organisations have shown increasing interest in setting standards with an overt agenda for social or environmental change.

Do or die in Durban

30 November 2011

Blog entry

Climate change

I was one among the many sleep-deprived observers present at the birth of the Kyoto Protocol, during the early hours of a cold December morning in 1997. I cannot claim to have formed an immediate emotional attachment. Along with many others, I despaired already at the weakling’s lack of ambition, and numerous defects (politely called loopholes) that rendered it a joke on the planet. It was optimistically proclaimed a “first small step”, implying that better would follow once the world “warmed up” to the idea of living in a carbon-constrained world.

Corporate responsibility: what's in a name?

27 June 2011

Article

Food and agriculture
Poverty
Sustainable markets

At the latest provocation from IIED and Hivos, held in Brussels last week (22 June), a group of around 60 policymakers, academics and development practitioners gathered to discuss, among other things, the role of CSR in achieving development goals such as poverty reduction and the empowerment of small-scale farmers.

Europe’s food security at risk without bigger role for farmers in policy and research

12 May 2011

Media release

Food and agriculture
Policy and planning

Europe's food security in a changing climate will depend on farmers being central participants in agricultural research and policymaking, with greater freedom to develop and choose the seeds they plant, says a new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Lumbering illegality: how to make timber sustainable and pro-poor

26 January 2011

Blog entry

Forests

The European Union is closing its doors to illegal timber exports. But unless we tackle unsustainable logging to satisfy domestic timber markets, their actions will little benefit forests, or the millions of poor people that live within them. Making timber sustainable requires the use of both trade and climate strategies in unison to bring about locally controlled forestry.

Peer review of The Netherlands National Strategy for Sustainable Development

1 May 2008

Project

Governance
Policy and planning

Various mechanisms are used to monitor progress and implementation of National Strategies for Sustainable Development (NSDS), eg, internal reviews, external auditing, parliamentary and budgetary reviews, and indicator-based monitoring.

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