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Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… national biodiversity and strategy action plans (NBSAPs) as a vehicle for integrating biodiversity into development policy and planning.  Between 2012 and 2017 IIED and partners delivered … working group implementing NBSAPS, and highlights the need for an integrated communication, education and public awareness strategy on …
Article, 09 July 2013
A man and woman standing in a field
Difficult choices: balancing competing priorities on Burkina Faso farms
… poverty and ensure food security as well as adequate incomes for rural households. The vast majority of poor people in Burkina Faso … to hoe them by hand, to protect them against erosion?  Government policy subsidises bullocks and bullock ploughs but even richer … farmers to the local authority. Support farmers to adopt more integrated agroecological farming techniques. This could include …
Article, 26 April 2020
Kazakhstan's capital Astana will host the EXPO trade fair in 2017. Credit: Ken & Nyetta/Flicker (Creative Commons)
Kazakhstan: Green economy of the future?
… in the world by 2050 while gradually 'greening' key economic sectors. For an oil-producing country which has been in transition since the … also inclusive. From the top down Kazakhstan's Green Economy Concept policy, which it adopted in May 2013, emerged in response to the Rio+20 … example, a State Commission or a Council under the President ( the Sustainable Development Council offers lessons) Increase Kazakh …
Insight, 30 January 2014
Mining industry relations to get boost in Ghana
… The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is launching a global series of … others to jointly shape and deliver a global programme of in-country policy dialogues. The global programme will develop a common framework … inclusive, sustainable and productive mining sector, with ASM fully integrated, is within reach.  IIED's global dialogue series on ASM …
News, 10 July 2015
The Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN, Kunzang Choden Namgyel, signs the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Photo: Amanda Voisard, UN Photo)
Lessons in climate diplomacy from Ethiopia and Bhutan 
… the agreement past the double-barrelled threshold of accounting for 55 per cent of global emissions and ratification by 55 countries. … with a firmer foundation for influencing international negotiations. Policy pointers from Bhutan  Bhutan is internationally recognised as a … a unique moral high ground. The nation has implemented a series of sustainable development policies to achieve carbon neutrality and …
Insight, 27 October 2016
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
… international agencies do not.   It also understands the potential for cities – and the importance of city governments – in adaptation and … the importance of urban areas Many international agencies have no policy on urban areas. This also means they lack the expertise to know … on urban areas but throughout the report as a whole, for example: "An integrated response to urbanisation provides substantial opportunities …
Insight, 06 November 2014
Isilda Nhantumbo, Bright Sibale, and Duncan Macqueen exchange ideas at a Forest Governance Learning Group Learning Event in Mozambique. Photo: Leianne Rolington
Private sector involvement with REDD+
… architecture at a global level and to test the robustness of the policy and legal systems for ‘investing’ in ecosystems services commodities, such as carbon. For … market and non-market incentives must be higher on policy agendas, integrated and complementary legislation for each commodity in the chain …
Project, 12 September 2013
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… to Stockholm with colleagues from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners from Mali and … made the link with two big events on development and climate: the sustainable development summit taking place in New York in late … Development Goals (SDGs) and how to ensure water is thoroughly integrated into the expected climate agreement . This year's theme …
Insight, 25 September 2015
Cover for G02193.pdf
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: A sourcebook and reference guide to international experience
… also intends to support a UNEP programme, initiated in 2003, on integrated assessment and planning (IAP) for sustainable development. …
Publication, 01 January 2004
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… As the UN High-level Political Forum on sustainable development  meets in New York to debate progress on … to protect life on land must be at the heart of delivering the SDGs for poor people .  This natural capital is fast being decimated with … (PEP) meeting . PEP seeks to build a wider understanding of how an integrated approach to reducing poverty and the sustainable use of …
Insight, 17 July 2017