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Conference organiser Saleemul Huq receives the "Burtoni" award: from left to right: Ian Burton (IPCC lead author), Roger Jones (CSIRO), Atiq Rahman (BCAS), Saleemul Huq (IIED) and Richard Klein (SEI) (Photo: IISD)
2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2)
Article, 14 April 2016
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… and IIED also exhibited in the parallel exhibition. The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)  was launched in 2013 by five UN … insights gained at the PAGE conference back to country leaders for policy consideration. This panel included high-level speakers from a … briefing paper looks at how the urban informal economy can be integrated into global standards for sustainable urban development. …
Event, 27 March 2017
Two men with vests from the Red Cross in front of a destroyed building
Here’s how to propel a green recovery for the poorest
… to propel a green recovery from the pandemic, preserving nature for future generations and giving it much needed economic value.  As climate scenarios are integrated within economic frameworks, climate vulnerabilities will be … climate and nature crisis, reduce debt and ensure an inclusive and sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery.  This blog was  originally posted on …
Insight, 07 April 2021
The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)
EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal
Project, 02 April 2019
Chris at his roadside food stall. His day starts at 4pm and lasts until 10pm (Photo: Sven Torfinn/Panos. Pictures for IIED and Hivos)
Photo exhibition highlights varied and vibrant informal economies
… the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda. The photos were on show at a one-day … February. The event, titled  The biggest 'private sector': What place for the informal economy in green and inclusive growth , brought … identified  key principles  that could help to develop a new policy agenda on informality and green growth . The photo exhibition …
Insight, 18 March 2016
Members of the Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Africa leaders' group. From left to right: Kauna Schroder, Marie-May Jeremie, Juliane Zeidler, Samson Mulonga, Dineo D Gaborekwe, Baboloki Autlwetse, Felix Monggae, Chipanqura Chirara.
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development
… NBSAPs could help integrate poverty alleviation with environmental policy, plans and investment and support both development and … Conservation Monitoring Centre , the project built capacity for biodiversity mainstreaming, developed tools, provided technical … extent to which biodiversity and development objectives are already integrated at the national level, and the obstacles and constraints that …
Project, 11 May 2014
A man transports logs by bicycle. Services provided by informal economies, such as small-scale logging, are often not integrated into plans for green growth (Photo: Jolien Schure/CIFOR, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Informal economy and green growth conference pinpoints need for new policy agenda
… in London on 25 February to discuss how the informal economy can be integrated into plans for inclusive green growth. The conference highlighted the variety and … in green and inclusive growth? '. It featured speakers from research, policy and practice, including from Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and …
News, 31 March 2016
Top blogs of 2018
Best of 2018: blogs
… 1 Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018 January: Our most read … address those dimensions through more detailed research and inclusive policy dialogue. 5 To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a … forum which looked at how employing NCA can encourage an integrated approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and …
Article, 27 December 2018
A farmer's house and sugar cane field in Cambodia, where there is concern about large-scale investment in sugar plantations driving local people off the land (Photo: Brian Hoffman, via Creative Commons)
Human rights should be at the heart of investment policy making
… Cross-border investment processes can have far-reaching implications for human rights. For example, investments in petroleum, mining or … for citizens to be able to scrutinise and influence investment policy making. The United Nations' Guiding Principles on Business and … that undermine human rights are unlikely to promote inclusive sustainable development. A country may well receive investments but …
Insight, 20 October 2014
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)
Six steps forward for African mining
… in African Mining Indaba  provides an annual match-making platform for investors, financiers, governments and the world's largest mining … of mining communities, and sustainable development should be better integrated into the programme – rather than tagged on the end. There … underdevelopment, it was fitting that the African Mining Vision (AMV) policy framework was AMI's main theme this year. But a high-profile …
Insight, 01 March 2017