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A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
Insight, 01 September 2022
Two women throwing fishing nets at a lake
Critical themes at IIED
… are also open to members of the public. The seminars include IIED’s own specialists alongside visiting experts: researchers, practitioners and activists from around the world. Each event normally includes a 30-minute presentation and 45 … levels of carbon emissions between the wealthiest citizens and the poorest in G20 countries.  How can we encourage the world's richest to …
Article, 05 March 2021
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
Insight, 20 April 2021
Publications covers collage
IIED's best of 2019: publications
… ‘background’ rates. This global biodiversity crisis is hitting the poorest communities first and hardest, because they cannot afford to ‘buy in’ biodiversity’s previously-free goods and services (and are already bearing the brunt … Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) are implementing a …
Article, 23 December 2019
Kenya: Farmers visit a crop trial site to select the best sorghum varieties for climate resilience. Most climate change adaptation is done day-to-day by farmers, pastoralists, fishers and the urban poor. (Photo: S. Kilungo, CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030
… On 25 and 26 September, world leaders will be in New York for the United Nations General … of the SDG agenda will not be achievable, especially in the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) . For the LDCs, the Paris process … on the issue of supporting and shaping climate finance flows to the poorest countries and the poorest people. Is there any more depressing …
Insight, 10 September 2015
Covers of top publications of 2020.
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… actions and report on biodiversity commitments. And, as much of the world’s biodiversity and its richest biodiversity spots are often found in … health of the oceans, and supporting inclusive urbanisation in the poorest countries – this annual review shows how we delivered against … IIED's best of 2020: publications …
Article, 23 December 2020
We must protect the world in which we live (Photo: Steve Guzzardi, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Best of 2017: blogs
… development and the battle for ideas in 2017 January: IIED's director, Andrew Norton, wrote our most read blog of 2017. Looking … back at the political developments of 2016, Norton asked whether the world would be able to sustain its hard-fought momentum on sustainable … to a changing climate. It is especially important for the world's poorest people, who often rely on the natural environment for their …
Article, 22 December 2017
Extractive industry workers are pictured on a beach; a new report recommends that transparency initiatives need to be more inclusive and relevant to local needs for communities most affected by oil, gas or mining projects (Photo: iStockphoto.com/Getty Images)
Transparency: Giving local communities a window on the extractive industries
… resource extraction is driving foreign investment into some of the world's poorest countries. Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa will reach 5.2 … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 28 May 2014
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
Images of the UK and EU flags, IIED director Andrew Norton says: "Losing membership of the European Union must not mean that the UK withdraws from the great global challenges of our time" (Photo: Reuters, via Google Licence)
Navigating uncharted waters: the EU referendum, the spirit of Paris, and the SDGs
… Last Thursday's vote by the UK public in a referendum to leave the European Union (EU) … criminality, cyber security, human mobility, protecting the natural world and, above all, climate change? Multilateral institutions can be … of livelihoods is as important in Germany and the UK as in the poorest countries. Losing membership of the European Union must not mean …
Insight, 27 June 2016