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Cover image from EITI and sustainable development: Lessons and new challenges for the Caspian region
Study shows how to improve Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
… seeks to become compliant; and Turkmenistan, which has not signed up to the EITI, but has expressed an interest in learning more about …
News, 14 March 2013
A cement factory
COVID-19 and global economic ordering: radical shift or more of the same?
… we can build on. A new generation of scholars and practitioners grew up with 9/11 , the financial crisis and now COVID-19 – and many are …
Insight, 24 April 2020
A plantation
Q&A: helping communities protect their land rights
… advocates could share 'what works' – and how, and why. So, I teamed up with International Land Coalition (ILC) and IIED to create an annual … Land Protection Programme, the swamp had been encroached and dried up as a result of people dividing up the water into channels towards their rice gardens... Grazing land …
Article, 27 January 2020
A Potato Park farmer in Peru leads the Potato Guardians collective (Photo: Adam Kerby)
Return of potatoes from CIP to Andean farmers proves critical for climate adaptation
News, 27 November 2014
An image of a deserted and war-torn street in Aleppo. Four years of fighting have left much of the Syrian city in ruins. The UN recently warned that up to 300,000 people could be left without food if the last flight route into eastern Aleppo is cut (Photo: Freedom House Salaheddin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Responding to cities under siege
… future, especially in known high-risk areas.  Doctors reported that up to 80 per cent of injuries were caused by the secondary effects of …
Insight, 21 April 2016
A pot with bubbling food sits cooking on an open fire.
Sustainable energy: can a new initiative succeed where Rio+20 failed?
… access to modern energy services by 2030. SE4ALL has a voluntary sign-up process that has so far received more than 100 firm commitments to …
Insight, 25 June 2012
In Tanzania, former artisanal mining licensees Mwanahamisi Mzalendo and Mwanamkasi Rasi are among entreprenurial women who have pooled their resources to create a quarrying business. They control the day-to-day running of the quarry, including supervising labourers, dealing with the local authorities, and taking care of the site's environmental footprint (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
Q&A: Women are driving the change we need
… FD: The SDGs are common to us all – that most countries are signed up shows we are all talking the same language. And there are good models … achieved nationally and from there start aggregating data to build up a picture at scale, to get an idea of what would work regionally. So, …
Article, 08 March 2018
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
… that have already been made (estimates range that the pledges add up to 2.7 o C to 3.5 ° C of further warming —  Bert Metz explains … – at global scale. There are the massive game changers. If we go up to 3°C and stay there we are looking at Greenland [ice sheet] melting … it." It will be essential for climate negotiators in Paris to step up to that task, said  Maxwell. Negotiators cannot assume that a myriad …
Insight, 09 December 2015
Ethiopian children play in the water of a well
Ethiopia must rethink finance to achieve 2025 vision
… work. One is a project that is due to be financed by SREP ( Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries ), one of the World … instruments. In particular, they should explore, experiment and scale up ways for smaller financial resources to leverage significantly more …
Insight, 01 October 2013
Six representatives of developing country governments – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nepal and the Philippines – shared their experiences of rolling out the sustainable development agenda at the 21st Poverty Environment Partnership meeting (Image: IIED)
Country progress on putting the sustainable development goals into action
… heard, bring challenges as well as opportunities. The PEP was set up at the 2002 Johannesburg Summit (Rio+10) and seeks to build a wider …
Insight, 23 June 2016