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Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

Informal settlements like this one in Jakarta often lack clean water supplies, waste collection or decent housing. There is an urgent need for investment in basic services and infrastructure (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

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Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

A stretch of the Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China. The region could be transformed by the Belt and Road Initiative (Photo: Marc van der Chijs, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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China's outward public investment – good news for the environment and tackling poverty?

Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

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Financial inequalities; defining our age

A migrant bamboo farmer harvests bamboo shoots in Tianlin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The UN PAGE conference was told China is reskilling one million workers from forestry into other industries (Photo: Nick Hogarth/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

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Highs and lows of the transition to an inclusive green economy

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Win–win in Belize: incubating community businesses that protect forests

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 1: Context

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 1: Key insights

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 2: Experiences

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Ecosystems, Poverty Alleviation and Conditional Transfers. Module 3: Sustainable finance

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Financing forest-related enterprises: lessons from the Forest Investment Program

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This 500W solar system in a rural village in Uganda powers a home, a public broadcasting system, a barbershop and a video hall (Photo: SolarNow via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

What is 'aggregation' and how can it get climate finance working for the most vulnerable?

Blog, Jun 2018

Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India: many villages traditionally administered local forests for sustainable benefits. (Photo: goldentakin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Breaking down barriers to tenure-positive climate finance

Project, Mar 2018

Ghanaian women working in a micro enterprise shell cocoa, one of the commodities driving deforestation in western Ghana. These enterprises need targeted access to finance to adopt sustainable production systems that can contribute to halting deforestation and improving livelihoods (Photo: Tom Blomley)

Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises

Project, Feb 2018

Public-private partnerships and aid's 'private turn': addressing the investment law dimensions

Blog, Jan 2018

Construction of Hyderabad’s new metro. The first phase, covering 30km and 24 stations, opened in November 2017 (Photo: banjaxx, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities

Blog, Jan 2018

A stretch of the Karakoram Highway in Xinjiang, China. The region could be transformed by the Belt and Road Initiative (Photo: Marc van der Chijs, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

China's outward public investment – good news for the environment and tackling poverty?

Blog, Oct 2017

Informal settlements like this one in Jakarta often lack clean water supplies, waste collection or decent housing. There is an urgent need for investment in basic services and infrastructure (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Are impact investors missing a trick by overlooking local communities?

Blog, Sep 2017

A community tests a solar cooker in India. The New Development Bank has made clean energy loans to South Africa and India. Solar concentrators to reduce and replace the use of conventional fuels that degrade the environment (Photo: UN Photo, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

BRICS summit: an opportunity to lead a fairer more sustainable world

Blog, Sep 2017

Community leaders in the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia planning with staff from the Namibia Housing Action Group (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)

Financial inequalities; defining our age

Blog, Aug 2017

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

Blog, Aug 2017

The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Shaking the money pot to protect nature

Blog, Jul 2017

A migrant bamboo farmer harvests bamboo shoots in Tianlin County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The UN PAGE conference was told China is reskilling one million workers from forestry into other industries (Photo: Nick Hogarth/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Highs and lows of the transition to an inclusive green economy

Blog, Mar 2017