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The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
Insight, 18 February 2015
People in costume walking
Allyship not ownership: how NGOs can back social movements
… of social activism is global, including many lesser-reported groups: citizens walking against climate change in Uganda, protesting against … target. France’s Gilet Jaunes prompted a new citizen-led approach to environmental policymaking. In the United States, the youth-led … movements? So this is part of the GEC Strategy for 2020-2030 : engaging with social movements through convening, rather than …
Insight, 17 March 2020
View of Monterrey, Mexico
New coalition to transform cities – and lives
… require holistic approaches and buy-in from diverse stakeholders and citizens.” This is the goal of the new 'Transformative Urban Coalitions' … some Latin American cities have become global synonyms for urban sustainability movements, change has not caught on widely and the … as possible, so quantity often takes precedence over quality, and environmental or climate considerations rarely play a role, which is …
News, 10 May 2021
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
… can influence investment quality – from the tax regime to social and environmental safeguards, though to the inclusiveness of investment … extractive industry legislation, land tenure, human rights norms, environmental legislation and tax law —including arrangements to fight … and influence," writes Cotula. "Perhaps most importantly, it requires citizens themselves to be able to appropriate and wield legal tools in …
News, 22 November 2013
IIED and the Independent Research Forum hosted side events at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in Jul
2016 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
… and North on how to 'leave no one behind' while taking into account environmental sustainability and climate resilience.  The session looked … to these functions that instill principles of inclusion, equity, sustainability and collective global responsibility into planning and …
Event, 11 July 2016
A man stands on a cut down tree amid a landscape of timber
China’s investments, Africa’s forests: from raw deals to mutual gains?
Insight, 19 June 2019
A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.
Legal empowerment as action research
… gathering evidence to inform public decisions. But social and environmental justice problems rarely originate from knowledge gaps … practitioners have long harnessed rights to challenge social and environmental injustice, often in the context of adverse economic … on the problems protagonists experience, such as the social and environmental impacts of large-scale investments or power imbalances …
Insight, 11 January 2022
Women hoeing a field.
Building a women-led community climate movement
Article, 03 December 2020
The new OpenLandContracts.org database will contain the details of publicly available investment contracts from around the world (Image: Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment (CCSI))
New online database of investment contracts hailed as a "game changer"
… contracts, as well as view summaries of key social, human rights, environmental, fiscal, and operational provisions.  The launch event … and make legal instruments more accessible to researchers and citizens. Cotula has been at the forefront of work to ensure that … rushed, secretive and one-sided deals risked creating new social and environmental problems. In June this year, Cotula authored a report, ' …
News, 06 October 2015
A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: involving growing low-income urban populations in urbanising countries will help result in more inclusive urbanisation (Photo: bobthemagicdragon, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In the world's poorest countries, cities could be the Sustainable Development Goals test
… even as inequalities are being reduced, and radical social and environmental targets are being achieved. Really? Despite the fact that … countries were accompanied by rising inequalities and large-scale environmental degradation? Are the countries of the world really uniting … succeeded in making local governments more accountable to urban citizens, let alone to aspiring migrants. Indeed, some forms of …
Insight, 07 June 2016