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Cover image from EITI and sustainable development: Lessons and new challenges for the Caspian region
Study shows how to improve Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
… "Countries of the Caspian region have started to improve their governance of oil and gas through the EITI, though need to ensure that … part of the EITI agenda, especially for local government and civil society organisations. Ensure new rules and procedures are clear, to … Governance …
News, 14 March 2013
A shoal of fish
IIED launches new 'Insights' series linking business and sustainability
… of 'Insights' is aimed at bringing together business, investors and civil society to work on effective sustainable development solutions. The Insights will explore a variety of current environmental and development challenges and examine practical ways that …
News, 02 October 2019
Water and gravity are used to separate and, ultimately, leave the diamonds (Photo: James McQuilken/@J_McQuilken)
Sustainable development and artisanal mining: time to broaden the ‘blood diamonds’ conversation?
… (SDGs) provide a blueprint for action by governments, industry and civil society across all sectors, including ASM.  IIED was invited to this … ASM dialogue  This year’s KP Plenary included a special forum on the environmental challenges of diamond mining, where IIED shared some …
Insight, 03 December 2018
View of a building on a street corner, with people crossing the road in the foreground
Coming through the pandemic the right way up
… This could harm core democratic processes such as elections, restrict civil society organisations and prevent popular mobilisation, including for … effectively and has emerged with an ambitious ‘ green new deal ’ for environmental action. There are real risks of rising inequality and …
Insight, 01 May 2020
Guinea's Kaleta dam was completed by a Chinese company in 2015, ending chronic power shortages in the capital city, Conakry (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
How a new ECOWAS directive could change the way dams are built and managed in West Africa
… Conservation of Nature (IUCN) supporting communication activities and civil society involvement, I have closely followed the process leading to the … agricultural components have been more disappointing. Meanwhile, the environmental damage and transformation of local societies are striking. …
Insight, 08 August 2017
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Community consultation for long-term climate-resilient housing in Vietnamese cities: a comparative case study between Hue and Da Nang
… of climate change is one of the biggest concerns for government and civil society. In Central Vietnam, storms and floods are common and dangerous … using a CRH framework developed from the Institute of Social and Environmental Transition’s urban climate resilience framework. The …
Publication, 01 October 2013
Negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership discuss the treaty in Brussels in May 2015 (Photo: European Parliament, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Investment treaties and citizens' power: lessons from experience
… with limited public participation. But the extensive involvement of civil society and citizens' groups in the negotiations shaping international environmental law shows that it is possible to open up international law …
Insight, 07 September 2015
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… redress in important areas. Much international guidance in social and environmental matters is left to non-binding instruments that cannot be … people's enjoyment of their human rights, including both civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights , is … and democratic governance to labour through to land rights. Civil society action can make a difference Governments play a central role in …
Insight, 20 October 2014
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… The concluding ceremony saw representatives from a range of public, civil society, private, local, regional, international agencies, and … we first started, climate change was originally perceived to be an environmental problem, but developing countries soon recognised that the …
News, 28 April 2016
Floating boards on a lake, hiding the fish farming cages underneath
Lessons for building a natural capital legacy
… people communicate the account findings so they hit home with civil servants, with decision-makers and with the general public? Do … Centre (UNEP-WCMC), IIED and the  Institute for Development of Environmental-Economic Accounting (IDEEA) , has spent three years … growing number of people in government, the private sector and civil society in Uganda committed to making the link between the mass of …
Insight, 16 August 2021