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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… and sets out the evidence that biodiversity loss is much more than an environmental problem – it is an urgent development challenge. More … help address this gap. It also describes political, institutional and governance-related conditions that facilitate or inhibit effective EbA … identifies five global challenges that will be our focus: increasing inequality, the climate crisis, the assault on the natural world, …
Article, 23 December 2019
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
… Secure tenure of land and other natural resources Incorporating environmental degradation and social inequalities into the metrics , …
Insight, 20 June 2014
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IIED's best of 2020: publications
… challenges that we pinpointed for action – climate change, growing inequality, accelerating loss of the world’s precious biodiversity, … met with both hopes for, and concerns about, the ultimate social, environmental and economic impacts. Greater reliance on foreign …
Article, 23 December 2020
Three angles on 'green growth'
… growth’ as one way of boosting economic growth without compromising environmental sustainability. The most active players are the ‘big’ ones … that are needed to get the economy we want, leaving social and environmental objectives to be achieved by ‘trickle-down’. Current … policies, plans and budgets — but increasingly also through market governance mechanisms, including standards, certification and labelling. …
Insight, 30 June 2011
Green economy – learning from the Caribbean
… – to solve the very problems that this paradigm creates: poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. But serious reflection on UNEP’s Green … ecological limits, what we currently perceive as a matter of economic governance and technology, will turn out to be a matter of social and …
Insight, 04 March 2011
Building an embankment in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh has been forced to learn how to cope with the realities of climate change (Photo: Espen Rasmussen/PANOS)
Does "leave no-one behind" risk too narrow a focus?
… compelling agenda for a company interested in tracking its social, environmental and economic performance.  What's different about the … context which also recognises the harmful impacts of high levels of inequality between and within countries. And of course the SDGs add a new and integrated focus on environmental change. These present major challenges for all countries, …
Insight, 01 March 2016
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
… therefore amenable to diverse outreach campaigns; iii) integrate the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable … should explain the intrinsic interdependences between poverty, environmental degradation and inequity. Or, if you prefer, the links … is linked to key interdependent economic, social, environmental and governance factors and to the other objectives; A  reprise of roles, …
Insight, 18 February 2015
An image of crouching community members in a village in Champasak province, Laos identify areas where open defecation is taking place ahead of implementing sanitation measures (Photo: Viengsompasong Inthavong/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
An urban approach to 'leaving no one behind'
… deprivation rather than engaging with the drivers of exclusion and inequality.  In the coming months, there is the potential for the new … to life, and more clearly link leaving no one behind to economic and environmental goals.  Our work ahead IIED has initiated a series of …
Insight, 02 June 2016
Ethiopian women sort coffee beans at a long table. IIED's Critical Theme will explore gender equality issues (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Empowered women = happy planet? Gender equality in a changing environment
… social media in China . In February 2015 we focused on links between environmental change and food security . Other Critical Theme meetings have looked at the governance of marine protected areas and the relationship between …
Event, 20 May 2015
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The first 10 years (1971-81)
… It shows how, under Barbara Ward’s leadership, IIED argued environmental protection had to address poverty, inequality and basic human needs. The institute developed a distinctive … on marine and polar resources, energy, human settlements and the environmental performance of development agencies. It also describes the …
Publication, 01 June 1982