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The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development
… Gender equality is rightly seen as crucial to sustainable development, with its own Sustainable Development Goal (Goal 5) . Yet the interconnections between … Why women's empowerment is essential for sustainable development …
Insight, 02 February 2016
People installing solar panels in a field
Accelerating energy access with aggregation
… facilities. Huge investment will be needed if we are to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 , ensuring “access to affordable, reliable and modern … transaction costs and risks for investors. This approach can nurture sustainable energy markets, particularly when it includes wider support … Sustainable markets …
Article, 13 November 2019
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How climate finance can support sustainable development
… innovative national planning that links climate resilience with more sustainable and equitable economic growth. This paper explores some of … finance could effectively contribute to both medium-term national development strategies and longer-term global development goals and targets, such as the Sustainable Development Goals that will …
Publication, 01 September 2013
The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't
… the more radically inclined already given up hope that the voluntary Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will actually be implemented? Things looked very different … Sustainable markets … The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't …
Insight, 18 February 2015
IIED and the Independent Research Forum hosted side events at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in Jul
2016 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
… The UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development , which was held in New York from 11-20 July 2016, was the … since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) last year. The session included country and thematic … 2016 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development …
Event, 11 July 2016
A number of women wearing brightly coloured clothes tend crops with mountains in the background.
Do women have a meaningful role in global value chains, and why does this matter?
… into rural areas, and many donors, governments, businesses and development practitioners have worked hard to ‘do’ it well. It can be … value chains, as well as being a broader objective under the UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 . IIED’s recent research  – based on an extensive … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 13 October 2022
Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… wisely in their rich ecosystems. For those that can, basing their sustainable development strategies on the inherent value of these resources for …  at the High-Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals with Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, the Minister of Environment and … Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development …
Insight, 17 August 2017
Eight development experts, including Oxfam GB's Irene Guijt, were interviewed about reimagining development for the Least Developed Countries (Image: IIED)
How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda?
… dialogue for Least Developed Country (LDC) experts to discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could help to define a new agenda for development. … How are the LDCs defining a new sustainable development agenda? …
News, 08 July 2016
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Analyse widely, act deeply: forest and farm producer organisations and the goal of climate resilient landscapes
Publication, 01 April 2019
A farmer in southern Mozambique carries greens back to his family from a project that has been backed by the Climate Investment Fund, which is working with the African Development Bank on a pilot program for climate resilience (Photo: CIF Action, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
… 2015 is a momentous year for international development. Three key global summits – on finance, on sustainable development and on climate – will define the ambition and … finance should be structured to meet the new Sustainable Sevelopment Goals (SDGs), due to be agreed at the UN General Assembly in September . …
Insight, 28 August 2015