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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: The regulatory taking doctrine
… The goal is to provide accessible but accurate information for human rights, development and environmental organisations working on …
Publication, 01 September 2007
A partly visible road and bridge due to muddy water covering half of it.
Loss and damage does not happen in a vacuum – it relates to power and politics
… offset projects imposed by global North countries have a history of human rights abuses and have been called “ new carbon colonialism ”. On …
Insight, 16 August 2022
IIED is pleased to announce its new strategy for the period 2014-2019
IIED launches new five-year strategy
… on each of four research themes: climate change, natural resources, human settlements and sustainable markets. We will also focus on four …
News, 07 March 2014
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Migration and adaptation to climate change
… Climate change is having an undeniable impact on many human systems and behaviours, including population mobility. This is …
Publication, 01 November 2007
Photo: Farah Sevilla, Alyansa Tigil Mina
How extractive industries can address conflict and build trust with communities
… impacts. The work of the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie, has increased awareness about the … such approaches." David Vermijs, independent advisor on business and human rights and the author of one of the chapters in the book writes: …
News, 25 April 2013
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Big emitters: how growth in consumption drives climate change
… poor households, population growth is not the culprit. The greatest human driver of global warming is the number of consumers on the planet …
Publication, 01 December 2009
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: International arbitration
… The goal is to provide accessible but accurate information for human rights, development and environmental organisations working on …
Publication, 01 September 2007
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Water ecosystem services and poverty under climate change: key issues and research priorities
Publication, 01 September 2009
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Health and the urban environment: revolutions revisited
… narrow economic interests has shown itself to be a serious threat to human health and wellbeing. Past revolutions in sanitation and pollution …
Publication, 01 May 2009
Care workers in Guinea put on protective clothing (Photo: EC/ECHO)
Ebola – what must we learn?
… to this outbreak, we must not forget that there's an intensely human story associated with Ebola, linked to the care and human contact so needed by the sick. Fear of this infection means fundamental decencies of human society and care for each other are being put aside; the sharing …
Insight, 30 October 2014