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Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… metrics interrelate and impact one another.  So, our big question back to the UNCSD Bureau is: How can we integrate these proposed … Grade C- Mention is made to ‘innovative instruments of finance’ for building green economies and reference is made to public procurement, …
Insight, 13 January 2012
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
… in Mexico to be in Rio. If anything, the Summit constituted a step back in the decades-long effort that started with the Brundtland …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest - lush green landscape with river running through it.
Locally-controlled sustainable forestry in Brazil faces uphill struggle
… rights to 15km of land on either side of the railroad they were building between Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul (an area that was …
Insight, 13 June 2012
A community in Bangladesh maps out their local resources and plans for an emergency.
Lessons from Bangladesh for a post-Sandy New York
… floods, this Dr Saleemul Huq shared the lessons learned in building climate and disaster resilience in coastal cities. Other … not long-term, it’s happening now and we can no longer afford to sit back and not do anything about it." Hurricane Sandy-Role of Science in … Partnership Project with the University of Manitoba, Canada, on “Building Environmental Governance Capacity in Bangladesh.” …
News, 22 January 2013
Chen showing Lila Buckley his innovative method for growing potatoes in straw nests.
A Chinese farm in Africa
… working in an unwelcoming environment, far from his family. Now back in China, Chen has returned to his previous job in his city’s … similar to the one he works for in Hubei “to focus on capacity building for average citizens. It's the people who need skills building if anything is going to change.” Chen explains that the …
Insight, 13 September 2012
PLA 60: Community-based adaptation to climate change
… Aims to drive forward collaborative research and policy analysis, building programmes, and delivering high quality knowledge services, … on adaptation to climate change. Participatory Learning and Action Back issues of Participatory Learning and Action are free to download … development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America by building Southern capacity and delivering community-based mitigation and …
Article, 01 December 2009
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… ' Citizen power: Sustaining paralegal programmes to put knowledge back into communities' hands ' in October, and ' Paving a path towards …
Insight, 12 January 2015
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… international trade. Even more importantly it squashes potential for building up new value-added industry in LDCs and in the case of the … throw stones. In terms of the accusations that China is tying-aid back to support its own companies and goods, developed countries are far …
Insight, 30 March 2010