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Polluted air coming out of the smoke stacks of a factory in Shanghai, China.
The least developed countries, equity, and a brave new world
… reductions possible?  How does the world encourage countries to race to the top rather than the bottom? Really, the question essential to the new … the world’s foremost economy. Again, won’t such an approach inspire a race to the bottom rather than the ambitious action necessary to achieve …
Insight, 02 July 2013
Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos
IIED's best of 2021: videos
… person in the room, with just as much engagement and interaction. Our top 10 of the year is: 1 Untold stories of climate change loss and … Action Coalition, in association with the UN High-Level Champions and Race to Resilience. The dialogues offer a chance for countries and …
Insight, 28 December 2021
Head and shoulders image of Alok Sharma talking to a computer camera in front of the Union flag
Ministers, NGOs, academia and grassroots discuss resilience beyond COVID-19
News, 07 July 2020
A person's baby finger is covered in ink so they can vote during the 2013 Presidential elections.
Mali election: A Presidential run off
… Many argue that the Presidency holds far too much power already and a top priority for the incoming administration will be to get greater … government with the MNLA separatist rebels ruled himself out of the race after Mali's top court didn’t respond to his legal request to have the vote delayed. …
Insight, 06 August 2013
The world's top bankers discussed international financial systems at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Remy Steinegger, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
It's time for the Davos super-rich to pay their fair share
… example, asserts that in a couple of years' time, we can expect the top one per cent to have wealth equivalent to the holdings of everyone … being game-keeper to poacher, as has happened in the UK. So we have a race to the bottom even among countries within the European Union, which …
Insight, 22 January 2015
Moving right along: climate change and migration
… refugees as people who through fear of persecution for ‘reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or … absorbed into host countries. The US influx of legal immigrants can top a million a year. As for the slow-grinding gears, he mentioned the …
Insight, 13 December 2009
Agricultural development: business as usual is not an option
… structures with transnational corporations and governments at the top and smallholder farmers and food consumers at the bottom. Most of … in Africa today has been designed so that each country competes in a race to export, and not to facilitate intra-community trade. Tracing the …
Insight, 05 April 2012