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The rich landscape of the Wolayita region in Southern Ethiopia highlights the country's huge potential (Photo: Rod Waddington, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why parliament should scrutinise the UK-Ethiopia BIT
… public concern, it is encouraging to see that parliaments are taking up the issue. Last week, the UK House of Commons debated TTIP . This …
Insight, 19 January 2015
An oil flare in Port Harcourt Nigeria.
Transparency: can it work for sustainable development?
… One of EITI’s greatest strengths is its voluntary government sign-up and business buy-in, which provides legitimacy and high-profile … EITI and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) have driven transparency up the global agenda. For instance, amendments to the European Union’s …
Insight, 23 May 2013
Illustration showing a Java rhino
Harnessing carbon finance to arrest deforestation: saving the Javan rhinoceros
… US$505 million in 2006, increasing annually by 10% and showing no sign of abating. The area around CTNP is a major cashew growing area, … will genuinely benefit the rural poor.  In the longer term, setting up these mechanisms was intended to provide enough funding to combat the …
Project, 22 June 2011
Patently obvious: intellectual property rights could support small producers
… developed thousands of potato varieties, with farmers cultivating up to 50 potato varieties on just one farm . Small producers in …
Insight, 14 November 2011
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development project updates
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development project updates
… for other countries and discuss how mainstreaming work can be scaled up successfully. July 2016 Reports from national workshops on … biodiversity plan and the climate change plan and how to link up initiatives such as implementing the Sustainable Development Goals … for the environment, who will then pass it to the minister for sign off." The NBSAPs team hopes to launch the plan in August or early …
Article, 21 March 2014
Statements and workshop reports
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development initiative: events
… mainstreaming – sharing lessons, co-developing guidance and scaling up', held in Ghana in November 2016. The statement says it is time to … into national and sectoral development policies was drawn up by the participants at the Harare workshop in November 2015. The … for the environment, who will then pass it to the minister for sign off." The NBSAPs team hopes to launch the plan in August or early …
Article, 09 July 2013
Climate refugees of the future
Insight, 30 April 2009
REDD+ in Mozambique: new opportunity for land grabbers?
… shows ignorance or tactical deceit to cut out red tape and speed up the authorization of the investment. And it’s not just private …
Insight, 15 September 2011
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… Nature is currently declining at rates unseen in human history , with up to one million species threatened by extinction. WWF’s Living Planet … to the Edinburgh Declaration. We encourage cities and regions to sign this statement of intent and demonstrate that they stand ready to …
News, 18 September 2020