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Nick Robins makes a Critical Theme presentation to IIED staff in May 2014 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: How can the financial system serve a green and inclusive economy?
… on economic issues, and answer questions and engage in an open forum that encourages dialogue and debate. Sony Kapoor, the Managing … the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking's research program, have also visited IIED's Gray's Inn Road office this … Themes series. Additional resources In autumn 2013, IIED contracted independent consultants Olof Drakenberg and Anders Ekbom to review the …
Event, 15 May 2014
Carina Millstone makes a Critical Theme presentation to IIED staff in May 2014 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: What would business look like in a steady-state economy?
… Carina Millstone, visiting research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at … on economic issues, and answer questions and engage in an open forum that encourages dialogue and debate. Sony Kapoor, the Managing … series here.  Additional resources In autumn 2013, IIED contracted independent consultants Olof Drakenberg and Anders Ekbom to review the …
Event, 21 May 2014
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
Insight, 18 February 2015
Poultry farming is part of the sustainable agriculture system, along with crop production and fisheries, at Songhai Centre, in Porto Novo, Benin (Photo: Mark Surman via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
… working to bring LDC voices to the SDGs through our work with the Independent Research Forum (IRF2015) and also the LDC Independent Expert Group , several …
Insight, 25 July 2014
A group of people line up in front of a mountain background.
Building green and inclusive energy
… food programme focused on Sustainable Diets for All. IIED is the lead research adviser for GIE, supporting Hivos country programmes to build … findings at key events such as the Sustainable Energy For All Forum and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change … live on a website. We were interested to understand whether providing independent data on electricity quality could help customers hold …
Project, 01 October 2020
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
SDGs 'not just for overseas'
… of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies.  As a leading member of the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015) , IIED has …
News, 15 December 2014
A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)
MPs warn UK government against limiting sustainable development goals
… of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies. As a leading member of the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015) , IIED has …
News, 15 December 2014
A mom and her newborn baby at the Maternal & Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
New international development goals: score or miss?
… and Development (OECD) , the World Bank and the World Economic Forum on the detrimental impact that income inequality is having on our … all of our planetary boundaries , arguably one of the most important research developments in the last decade. It reiterates the commitment … choices, or the tricky question of implementation. ( See this Independent Research Forum paper , for a more practical approach).   The …
Insight, 05 June 2013
Village councils or panchayats have not been involved in India's approach to the SDGs so far (Photo: UN Women Asia and the Pacific)
Are citizens being left behind by India's approach to the SDGs?
… the two processes will be integrated. Some pertinent questions Our research with business, government officials and civil society raised a … RIS) and businesses (ITC). This blog was orginally posted on the Independent Research Forum website . …
Insight, 26 September 2016
As a mountainous country, Bhutan faces particular environmental challenges (Photo: Göran Höglund, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Q&A: A pragmatic approach
… Foundation in Bhutan, and a member of the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group , says that the country is doing well in … working with IIED, and was originally posted on the Independent Research Forum website . …
Article, 27 July 2016