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Neglected energy source can fuel giant leap forward in developing nations
… to tackle climate change and poverty, and create energy security, jobs and sustainable economies. Download the report "Bundles of energy: …
News, 09 March 2011
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
… The exact framing of these ultimate policy objectives varies but the general goal is, or should be, to improve livelihood opportunities – for example through creating jobs or generating public revenues – while respecting the environment. …
Insight, 20 October 2014
Mitunu, a female of the Mubare gorilla group in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, is one of the few remaining critically endangered mountain gorillas left in the wild. CTPH programs promote health and conservation to save Mitunu and her family (Photo: Ryoma Otsuka)
Are health investments paying off for endangered wildlife?
… up of volunteers − travel to communities around Bwindi and provide general conservation and health information as well as access to family … gorillas are supporting the local tourism trade – bringing with it jobs at hotels and restaurants, and incomes from local crafts. The …
Insight, 02 March 2017
The post-2015 development agenda must recognise that the fates of forests and people are entwined. Credit: Duncan Macqueen
Saving the forests for last – in the hope, at last, of saving the forests
… stand-alone goal on healthy forests. For others, such as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's High Level Panel of eminent persons, it would make …
Insight, 31 January 2014
No easy, quick solutions to improving life in the "slums"
Insight, 05 September 2011
Hundreds of densely packed houses climb into the mountains
Dealing with COVID-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
… such as those selling vegetables. A small proportion have low paid jobs in the formal economy such as cleaners, factory workers and guards. …
Insight, 27 March 2020
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… When added together these represent a sizeable chunk of city jobs, incomes and demand, especially for regional and national capitals …
Insight, 27 May 2020
Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India (Photo: Akshay Mahajan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Data that supports local development
… unemployed migrants (as the government assumed) but people who had jobs (although very poorly paid), who had long lived in the city and who …
Insight, 22 September 2016
A meeting of mines
… 80 per cent of mining exports, some 18,000 informal miners lost their jobs and livelihoods due to the recession’s impact on mineral prices. In …
Insight, 20 April 2010
Chinese supermarket. Photo: Simon Lim
Reflections on ten years of rating big brands for sustainability
… come Unilever, Coca-Cola and Pepsico. Languishing at the bottom are General Mills, Kellogg’s, and Associated British Foods. Such a …
Insight, 27 February 2013