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Aerial view of an isle surrounded by water
A new climate finance goal is in the making: what must happen in 2023?
Insight, 02 March 2023
It would cost less than $7 per person a year to provide 200 million people, most of whom are in sub-Saharan Africa, with access to electricity (Photo: Alamy, via Google licence)
New finance needed to connect 200 million people in cities to grid and help tackle poverty
… to avoid the dangerous impacts of climate change. This includes the capital, operating, maintenance and financing costs of the generation, … be, and to reduce the extreme inequality that can fuel political and financial crises. These investments in urban wellbeing and productivity …
News, 14 October 2016
Mogadishu attracts people from all over the country, making it the second-fastest growing city in the world, with a 4% annual rate of urbanisation growth (Photo: Baron Reznik, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The challenge of finding money to build shelter in Mogadishu’s informal settlements
… the highest in the world.  Mogadishu, home of the displaced Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is the starkest example of the country’s urban … access to housing by engaging with a range of stakeholders – IDPs, financial institutions, real estate developers, notaries, architects, … customer base: the poor. New buildings are completely out of financial reach for most of Mogadishu’s inhabitants: the cheapest newly …
Insight, 28 January 2019
Aerial view of Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Demanding urgent responses to the loss and damage caused by climate change
… the realities of loss and damage, and to provide urgently needed financial and technological support to help the LDCs manage the … and more are destroying lives and livelihoods in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. How the erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is …
Article, 01 March 2021
A tree nursery run by Fedecovera, is the world's biggest exporter of cardamom and a cooperative with 25,000 members (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Organise to thrive
… bank (Banrural) and receives a 40 per cent annual return on capital. Fedecovera also runs its own credit programme which disperses … separate business training courses at its headquarters.  Fedecovera's financial self-sufficiency is built around four income streams: … industries; and development project management. It does not drain the financial resources of its members through costly membership fees. It is …
Insight, 30 June 2015
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Social impacts of the payments for environmental services (PES) scheme in Costa Rica: a quantitative field survey and analysis of the Virilla watershed, The
… the PES programme, and examines the effects the programme has had on financial, human, social, physical and environmental capital. …
Publication, 01 January 2003
The logo for the Sustainable Development Goals (Image: the United Nations)
Public-private partnerships and aid's 'private turn': addressing the investment law dimensions
… thought that achieving the SDGs requires an unprecedented increase of financial resources available to low and middle-income countries – from … 'private turn' in development policy (PDF)  has included injecting capital into traditional development finance institutions (DFIs) and creating new financial instruments, such as blended finance , to encourage private …
Insight, 30 January 2018
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
A sustainable ocean by 2030
… Similarly, an increasing number of impact investors (those seeking financial, ecological and social returns) indicate that private sector investment can generate significant financial resources to complement public sector investment. Capitalising on blue capital Attracting public and/or private investments towards enhancing …
Insight, 14 September 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
… bit cannier on managing that purse. Poverty, biodiversity and natural capital  The 22nd meeting of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP22) … from 41 organisations and 12 countries to talk about natural capital investments in relation to environmental and social commitments, … rich more than the poor and reforming subsidies actually mobilises financial resources that can be used for more targeted support to …
Insight, 25 July 2017
Three girls wash their clothes in the Akaki river, near Addis Ababa. Climate change is affecting the quality of water in Ethiopia and much of the wastewater released by the industries and houses in Addis Ababa reaches the Awash River untreated, putting public health at risk (Photo: Beatrice Mosello/ODI, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new development banks help or hinder on climate change?
Insight, 06 July 2015