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IIED's 2017 strategy update
Our strategy: 2014-2019
… period from 2019. Our strategic priorities The signing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change …
Page, 29 July 2022
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Nature and people must thrive together in future economic strategies
… being disproportionately affected. We cannot hope to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without halting and reversing environmental degradation. …
Insight, 15 December 2022
Women carrying emergency shelter kits
The UK’s backward step on global development
Insight, 17 June 2020
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Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… farmers’ decision making: managing trade-offs and synergies for sustainable intensification) examined how farmers in sub-Saharan Africa … Q: What SITAM is all about? BA: First of all, I should explain what sustainable agricultural intensification is. It’s a concept developed … or social relations. The UK’s Department for International Development funded the SAIRLA programme to look at sustainable …
Article, 17 February 2020
Key words related to mining and sustainable development (Image: IIED)
Mining's search for sustainability: how far have we come?
… raises many questions about how well the mining industry has put sustainable development theory into practice.  The research is based on the … looks a little different. Conversations on the Millennium Development Goals are being replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  — … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 07 June 2012
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Sustainable Markets Investment Briefings: Investment treaties
… This is the second of a series of briefings which discuss the sustainable development issues raised by legal arrangements for the protection of … is to provide accessible but accurate information for human rights, development and environmental organisations working on issues raised by … Sustainable markets …
Publication, 01 September 2007
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Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development
… recently organized jointly by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the International Institute for Environment and … together a mix of policymakers, researchers and activists. The goals of the dialogues were to determine (i) how the Doha Round … Agricultural Commodities, Trade and Sustainable Development …
Publication, 01 January 2005
Two men bend down with their hands on a small tree.
Only a fraction of international climate adaptation finance for least developed countries found to also support nature
… habitable climate and protecting biodiversity are mutually supporting goals. It is not possible to address one without the other – climate … But as we highlighted in a report co-authored with 15 environment and development organisations last year, these interventions must be high … may deprioritise these efforts as a result. This would be a worrying development.   Putting the data under the microscope – what we did We …
Insight, 10 March 2022
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Conservation with social justice? The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… Chapter three of the Millennium Development Goals. If the entire planet's population depends on natural resources … – far more than the forest emphasis of MDG7. Through their focus on sustainable livelihoods, human rights and democracy, CCAs can also make … The role of community conserved areas in achieving the Millennium Development Goals …
Publication, 01 August 2005
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
… talks where, every three years, donors top up International Development Aid (IDA) resources. These talks focus on the results the … reflect recent global agreements – Financing for Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World … Making World Bank aid sustainable …
Insight, 10 October 2016