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Plan Vivo partners at a conference in Sweden commit to actively engage in the implementation and accountability of the SDGs (Photo: Plan Vivo Foundation)
The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
… speak big and they speak fair: end poverty, reduce inequality, better jobs, and clean up our environment are just some of these goals… And … changes. Apart from providing vital benefits for local people, like jobs, cleaner water and biodiversity conservation ( so-called … common language that we all understand, from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's high-level UN private sector forum , to …
Insight, 15 October 2015
Exercises helped the Food Change Lab group trust one another
Food, sisterhood and dreams
… as you and the group constantly hone your problem-solving skills. In general, labs aim to stimulate participants’ curiosity and make everyone … prepare their families’ food, regardless if they work one or even two jobs. According to the UN in Bolivia (Spanish site) , the number of …
Insight, 16 October 2018
A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
… targets and plans for reducing emissions, either at September’s UN General Assembly or at November’s UN climate talks, due to be held in …
Insight, 01 September 2022
US President Joe Biden speaking with a microphone
Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
… can reinforce calls from vulnerable countries and the UN Secretary-General to scale up adaptation funding and ensure at least 50% of public …
Insight, 20 April 2021
The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why universality is a taxing agenda…
… – the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN General Assembly in September, and the Paris climate conference (COP21) …
Insight, 20 July 2015
Image of a solar panel, with light glinting off it.
Green growth and equity must go hand in hand
… of evidence on this has been built up following the OECD’s Secretary-General Angel Gurria ’s promotion of green growth as a policy priority … and needs of the poor: developing countries need to create green jobs and enterprises that are accessible to the poor – jobs that might cost $100 to create and require 1 KW to sustain, rather …
Insight, 13 June 2013
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… go into the forest".  People also hunt bushmeat because they resent jobs with the national park going to outsiders, and that ICD projects … greater equity in tourism revenue sharing, more national park-related jobs filled by local people, reduced human-wildlife conflict and better …
Insight, 20 August 2014
a vegetable seller and customers
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi’s urban poor
… but also in countries like the United States, people that lose their jobs are being forced to use food banks, which are buckling under …
Insight, 08 April 2020
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… live in rural areas and are food producers. The farmers and their general situation Our research took place in the Eastern Region of … Some families say ‘we want our children to go to school and get good jobs’. They only let school-age children help on the farm during …
Article, 26 April 2020
Heads of government will pledge action on climate change at the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September (Image: UN)
Leaders take note: There are two sides to the climate change coin
… money to tackle climate change will drive economic growth, creating jobs and prosperity. As our leaders begin to rise to the challenge and … the minds of millions of people. Two days later, at the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit , heads of government will make pledges of …
Insight, 18 September 2014