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Financing inclusive low-carbon resilient development: Role of Central Bank of Bangladesh and Infrastructure Development Company Limited
Publication, 01 August 2015
Black grouse fight in Vaala, Finland. The country is committed to protecting biodiversity under its implementation of the sustainable development goals (Photo: Markus Varesvuo/NPL/Barcroft)
Will the UK be left behind on sustainable development?
… But they have the merit of uniting the big global challenges of our era – halting climate change, arresting the loss of natural assets, stopping the upward trend … had promised to promote sustainability at home and abroad, with a focus on operations in poorer countries. Germany's report outlines an …
Insight, 25 July 2016
Maintaining the solar street lighting in the village of Tinginaput, India. SDG 7 calls for access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (Photo: UK Department for international Development Creative Commons via Flickr)
Poverty Environment Partnership issues call to action on 2030 Agenda
… for reaching integrated development that ends poverty, climate change and loss of natural assets. It puts the needs of people in … capital loss.'  "Addressing the links between environment, climate change and poverty will be crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific. With our own strategy supporting inclusive, environmentally sustainable …
News, 13 July 2016
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Evolving Customary Institutions in the Drylands: An opportunity for devolved natural resource governance in Kenya?
… and how this impacts on resource governance and climate resilience. Our case study looks at a new hybrid form of customary/formal … to addressing the ‘drylands development deficit’ than projects that focus on technical fixes or work in parallel to customary institutions. … Climate change …
Publication, 01 April 2014
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
… local climate and river flows, protecting species that pollinate our crops, and simply being places of natural beauty. But history shows … With equity on the agenda, and ambition in the air, we ought to see change on the ground. But since the Durban World Parks Congress, despite … — Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya — starts next week. We will showcase our early findings at the 2014 World Parks Congress in November and in …
Insight, 11 March 2014
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
… on embedding forests in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our work with LDCs has particularly focused on making sure their … example, we have been working to bring LDC voices to the SDGs through our work with the Independent Research Forum (IRF2015) and also the LDC … in the global economy, adapt and build resilience to climate change, foster inclusive and equitable growth, create decent employment …
Insight, 25 July 2014
Business models for sustainable development
Article, 10 May 2010
David Arach presented Namati's approach to community land protection, focusing on the key stage of community by-laws drafting, in the IIED webinar (Image: David Arach)
Using community by‑laws to protect indigenous and rural land rights
… to access their lands face numerous threats, ranging from climate change to large-scale agricultural investments.  An IIED webinar … some of the challenges communities face in protecting their lands. Our first speaker, Namati's David Arach , described how the … council, the implementation begins. Use of community by-laws in Kenya Our second speaker, John Samorai, program officer for the Ogiek People's …
Insight, 01 December 2016
Hama Arba Diallo (Photo: Global Water Partnership)
Hama Arba Diallo: the universal man
… humility and sense of sacrifice. When many of us are trying to use our scientific and technocratic approaches to explain some very complex … such as development, poverty alleviation, desertification or climate change, and how to adequately face them, Arba's inspirational approach …
Insight, 10 October 2014
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Editorial
… begins: Editorial Welcome to this issue of PLA Notes. As many of our readers In this issue will be aware, PLA Notes has now been produced … a training project Notes is still a series with a methodological focus, it is which focuses on training professionals to develop skills …
Publication, 01 June 2000