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The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver
… need that hope to demand that our leaders deliver on reaching a climate agreement, agree and implement the Sustainable Development Goals … progress that I have seen on reducing poverty and tackling climate change. The World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos started as a meeting of … part.     The world's governments through the UN's Open Working Group have identified 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …
Insight, 21 January 2015
Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… . Put simply, the world faces a set of 'wicked problems' such as climate change, poverty and fragility. They are 'wicked' because the solutions … is the director of IIED's Sustainable Markets Group. …
Insight, 21 March 2016
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New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers
… organisations, say two new publications released today by FAO and a group of its partners. In many rural economies, the forest enterprises … restoration," says Chris Buss, deputy director of IUCN's Forest and Climate Change Programme. "It is crucial therefore to ensure forest producer …
News, 30 June 2014
An IIED workshop in September 2016 that focused on conceptualising 'better evidence' (Photo: Celie Manuel/IIED)
Generating better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation
… processes towards better development outcomes, in a post-truth climate, there is a risk that prioritisation of high quality evidence … and listened to Is action-oriented towards creating positive change Challenges perceived wisdom and/or reinforces alternative … reliability, and is transparent about its own methodological basis. A group of IIED researchers and evaluators have explored how …
Project, 24 March 2017
IIED researchers in Uganda: "IIED works with small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs), municipal governments, pastoral communities, representatives of urban poor federations, smallholder farming groups, and other poorly represented interests" (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Reflections on my time as IIED director
… debates , and making sure we thought through the implications of climate change for work across all our programmes. Saleemul Huq led this process, making the case for why climate change matters hugely for sustainable development. So we ensured …
Insight, 05 March 2015
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6th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation Brochure
… Climate change …
Publication, 01 November 2011
An example of crops grown through no-till farming in Western Australia (Photo: Bill Crabtree)
Spreading the word about the no-till agricultural revolution
… much of the land in the state of Western Australia. Due to the arid climate and the large extent of wind erosion, the sandy soils were … degradation seemed irreversible. In the early Nineties, however, a group of Australian farmers decided to try out new ways of cultivating … and why conservation agriculture contributes to mitigate climate change. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zFLNNH_sY] Bill shared …
Insight, 31 March 2014
An image of the front of a stationary train on the Addis Ababa light rail system, which opened in 2015, and was the first to be built in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two railway lines, which have their own dedicated power grid, demonstrate how Ethiopia is seeking low-carbon energy initiatives (Photo: Wikipedia, via Google licence)
Q&A: Linking low-carbon pathways with the SDGs
… The Least Developed Countries (LDC) Independent Expert Group (IEG) , IIED and the ESRC's STEPS Centre will host a dialogue on … gap by 2030. Launched at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) climate talks in Paris, this initiative will significantly increase … carbon emissions. But this is about more than tackling climate change. The provision of reliable, affordable, renewable energy can lift …
Article, 30 May 2016
Crisis in policymaking for people and planet demands new politics of inclusion
… "The failure of leadership at the Copenhagen climate change summit last December is just one example of a major crisis in … the needs of groups who are most affected by social and environmental change but have so far been excluded from decision-making processes. The …
News, 27 January 2010
Sewing on the street in Djibouti. The informal sector still plays an important role in most of the LDCs (Photo: Charles Roffey, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
… demeaning as that sounds – at the other. LDCs: the beginnings The LDC Group was established in the late 1960s to ensure development aid … the Sustainable Development Goals, IPoA, the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, to name a few. …
Insight, 29 June 2016