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A line of Christmas trees. Photo: Brett Flanders (Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sustainable development requires an infusion of love
… few and increasingly critical deprivation for the rest (constrained business as usual). Option 2 is contraction and convergence towards a … Goals (MDGs) that end in 2015. Any new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or revamped MDGs would be New Year's resolutions on a planetary … selfishly or selflessly. Yet much of the economic machinery of business and nation states is set up for the former – giving more to …
Insight, 20 December 2013
A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bringing solar out of the shadows
… energy for everyone, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will need a massive shift to decentralised supply through such … access other funds to build their models and put together convincing business plans. Of the solar providers that are receiving funding, we … more ambition, innovation and collaboration are needed to achieve the SDGs' commitment to leave no one behind . Shifting finance flows to …
Insight, 20 February 2017
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… systems, market stability, conduct of multinational corporations, investment in infrastructure and R&D, obesity and urban-rural linkages. … essential to get to this level of specificity about how achieving the SDGs at a national level depends on a set of international actions. … targets and finesse the language such that the document speaks to business, civil society and local government in a relevant and …
Insight, 20 June 2014
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… related to IPLCs continues.   The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris climate agreement, and New York Declaration on Forests … adopting SFM. Finally come supply chain approaches that can improve business returns for IPLCs from their SFM.   This diagram shows 13 …
Insight, 14 July 2020
2015 is a critical year for sustainable development: IIED is tracking the route to Paris and COP21 in December (Image: IIED)
Walking along the road to Paris
… The Paris climate summit and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) both provide an opportunity for the international community to … action away from the needs of the majority.  But the fossil fuel business is now feeling the collapse in oil prices, the threat of carbon … markets. Every day, a new institution announces it's re-thinking its investment portfolio – Norway's sovereign wealth fund divesting from …
Insight, 15 June 2015
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… new collection of essays by researchers, politicians, campaigners and business leaders.  The interconnections between environmental … and development initiatives. Where are the local indicators for the SDGs? March: The 2030 Agenda approved some 169 targets and 230 … sustainably. Mayers said new forms of ownership, lending and doing business that are being developed in the local forestry sector have the …
Article, 28 December 2016
A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.
The case for sewers
… Sewers do not require a collection/disposal service for each home or business, or the expensive transportation costs – especially if the … large volumes of toilet wastes, they require a substantial capital investment on the part of the public sector and a regular and sufficient … of their growing populations. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require access to adequate and equitable sanitation for all by …
Insight, 19 November 2021
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… agencies, thought leaders and representatives from civil society, business and media to discuss how to accelerate the shift to green investment and inclusive growth. IIED director Andrew Norton and … markets can be "enablers" for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.  IIED and partner events High-level …
Event, 27 March 2017
The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver
… agreement, agree and implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty and find the money to make all this happen. This … of decision-makers from many diverse backgrounds – from government, business and civil society. Make or break If the WEF's founder Klaus … According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance's review of 2014 , 'global investment in clean energy was US$310 billion last year, up 16 per cent …
Insight, 21 January 2015
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
… OECD shows the imbalance of investments in nature: for every positive investment action (e.g. payments for ecosystem services) there are 10 … of energy pricing reforms helped carefully identify the affected business sectors and income groups, and formed the basis for the design … out budgets to enable actions towards the Aichi targets and the SDGs. At PEP22, participants agreed that for such pricing and subsidy …
Insight, 25 July 2017