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Certified tea is among the commodities to have experience strong market growth.
Study reports double-digit growth in market performance of 'eco-labels'
… Chiquita, Coca Cola Company, Tetley, Twinings, Unilever, Hershey’s, Home Depot, Lowes, Starbucks, Nestlé, Ferrero Group, Mars, Ikea, Adidas … " The Review, which also examines the conformity assessment systems, governance structures and criteria coverage across competing … standards have been successful in establishing: more inclusive governance across global supply chains third party monitoring as the …
News, 31 January 2014
A rubber boat carrying around 50 refugees arrives from Bodrum, Turkey to the Greek island of Kos (Photo: Christopher Jahn/IFRC, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
In this war of words, no one is the victor
Insight, 04 September 2015
Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to help urban poor improve living conditions
News, 22 November 2007
Workshop participants were briefed on the climate negotiating priorities of the Least Developed Countries (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Negotiators from developing countries get skills boost ahead of UN climate talks
… I would be the only woman in the team. This helps me because at home I help with the COP preparation, and the high-level statement, and …
News, 13 November 2017
Participants at the meeting establish how their NGO works with communities in DRC (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Poverty and conservation in DRC – what role for a network?
… development in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, the natural home to the endangered Eastern Lowland Gorilla. It is difficult to think … its citizens are among the poorest. Years of civil war, weak governance, widespread corruption and financial mismanagement have …
Insight, 24 August 2014
Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)
Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Insight, 23 October 2014
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
Event, 27 March 2017
Squamish river, Canada. Under Stephen Harper, Canada has lagged behind the rest of the world in combating climate change; will new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make a difference? (Photo: James Wheeler, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will new leadership boost Canadian contribution to global climate negotiations?
Insight, 21 October 2015
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
Insight, 17 March 2014
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… put protecting people from other people's shit at the heart of urban governance. Cholera epidemics hit unsanitary cities hardest, and The … blocks lane committees that included representatives from every home that was connected to the sewer (collective action).  The approach …
Insight, 04 March 2015