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An open pit mine
Realigning investment contracts with sustainable development
Project, 06 May 2020
Tara Shine is photographed smiling next to boxes on which is written 'climate action'
Time to Shine: IIED appoint new trustee chair
News, 05 December 2019
IIED appoints new chair
… experience advising leaders, governments, multilateral agencies and civil society. She is an experienced policy adviser on environmental and development issues, including for Irish Aid, the Irish …
News, 05 December 2019
A meeting of community members in Bangladesh. Similar meetings will feed into an international network of government planners sharing strategies on how to mainstream climate change into development planning (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire)
Government group network on climate change mainstreaming
Project, 29 September 2014
Village councils or panchayats have not been involved in India's approach to the SDGs so far (Photo: UN Women Asia and the Pacific)
Are citizens being left behind by India's approach to the SDGs?
… it the potential to show real leadership on poverty reduction and environmental targets – but will it deliver? The Government of India has … questions Our research with business, government officials and civil society raised a number of questions about India's strategy in relation …
Insight, 26 September 2016
Cover for G03387.pdf
Fair ideas highlights: Sharing solutions for a sustainable planet
… — has never been greater. Governments, businesses, researchers and civil society organisations all agree that ‘business as usual’ cannot overcome … actors have explored effective solutions to pressing social, environmental and economic challenges, and considered the barriers to … Governance …
Publication, 01 June 2012
A beautiful coastline but, in the foreground, a woman is sorting a huge pile of plastic bottles
Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the SDGs
… It also means organisations: large and small, public and private, civil society. Unless we see organisations, especially businesses, as global … been insular in the past, some are now recognising their social and environmental responsibilities. Some argue ‘too little, too late’, or …
Insight, 24 January 2020
A basket full of coal taken illegally from an open-cast mine near the village of Bokapahari, India where a community of coal scavengers live and work © G. M. B. Akash / Panos Pictures
How to use law to make foreign investment work for sustainable development
… today published a handbook that shows how government officials and civil society organisations in low and middle-income countries can use legal … can influence investment quality – from the tax regime to social and environmental safeguards, though to the inclusiveness of investment …
News, 22 November 2013
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CSSI)  looked at ways civil society groups are bringing community perspectives, human rights, and environmental issues to the attention of arbitral tribunals. Why we need …
Insight, 05 March 2018
Dam filling up a half empty reservoir
New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams
… Nelson Mandela.  The commission, which comprised representatives of civil society, academia, the private sector, professional associations and one … and decommissioning, and raised awareness for the social and environmental issues associated with large dams.  The WCD was praised …
News, 21 December 2021