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A water tap in Rwanda. Measuring sustainability of investments in water and sanitation makes more sense than focusing on annual freshwater withdrawal and access to improved water and sanitation (Photo: A'Melody Lee/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Making World Bank aid sustainable
Insight, 10 October 2016
Extinction Rebellion climate protesters march through London behind a big green banner proclaiming 'Rebel for life'
The Paris Agreement always needed Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
… to mobilise and demand action from their governments. It should be a sign of great hope and affirmation of faith in the future of human …
Insight, 24 April 2019
Our successful animation was devised to popularise the Sustainable Development Goals. But that doesn't mean we didn't make mistakes (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals, global audience – how well did we score?
… how did their message, that world leaders should be urged not only to sign up to this agenda, but also to make these aspirations a reality, reach a … with input from our Research Strategy Team . We commissioned Hands Up, which had recently worked on another project with us to promote …
Insight, 18 September 2015
A man bends over to tend his crops in a field
Bright spots of success: local adaptation brings answers to the global climate crisis
… stories of innovation and resilience dot the landscape. Bumping up production Over a 12-year period, and as rainfall has become … I now produce two to three times a year. My overall harvest is up to six times greater.” Shemsu says he was amazed when he started this … conference on CBA (CBA14) will take place in September 2020. Sign up to receive further updates on CBA . …
Insight, 02 September 2019
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
… US’ political allergy to international law with teeth) took a ‘bottom up’ approach, built on national action plans. This allowed the Obama administration to sign up to something that did not need validation in Congress.  But this was …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Cover for 14609IIED.pdf
Revisiting Collaborative Forest Management in Kyrgyzstan: What happened to bottomup decision-making?
… necessary institutional structures. Local CFM boards have been set up as a forum for discussion among all main stakeholders, and have …
Publication, 01 December 2010
The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development
… evaluation Evaluation processes will play a key role in the follow-up and review systems for the SDGs. IIED is promoting effective … case for greater use of evaluation and evaluative thinking in follow-up and review processes, especially at the national and sub-national … in the 17 SDGs in a variety of ways for many years . In the run-up to the United Nations formally adopting the SDGs, IIED released an …
Article, 15 March 2016
An image of the world showing global surface temperatures: April 2016 was the hottest April on record, the seventh month in a row to break temperature records. You can watch a video progression of changing global temperatures below (Image: NASA)
Taking the Paris Agreement forward: what to expect in Bonn?
… are established over the next two weeks. The 26 articles that make up the Paris Agreement (PDF)  contain promising and encouraging … when it has been ratified by 55 parties (i.e. countries/EU signed up to the UNFCCC) representing 55 per cent of total global emissions. …
Insight, 16 May 2016
Crucial agreement with China creates opportunity to protect Mozambique’s forests, report says
… is particularly destructive.  Simple licences are granted for up to 10,000 hectares of forest designated for logging, and are …
News, 07 August 2018
Dr John Ingram speaking on food security at IIED (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
IIED 'Critical Theme' seminar: Climate change and food security
… of the meeting and the following discussion and we published a round-up via Storify . The University of Oxford's Environmental Change … impacts on the vulnerable groups. The study, which was entitled 'A sign of things to come?', found that governance had a key role to play … The report called on governments and policy institutions to: Set up emergency preparedness programmes Encourage their citizens to …
Event, 12 February 2015