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A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… urban change within nations. This blog looks at what drives cities’ development trajectories, especially successful large cities.  To make … But if city governments have key roles in (for instance) meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (and now controlling the COVID-19 pandemic), city and sub city … Cities’ development trajectories …
Insight, 16 June 2020
A woman picks out grass from a garden with baby sleeping on her back.
Generating ambition for locally led adaptation
… and rising inequality are evidence of the persistent challenges to sustainable development. The world over, nature is declining at an accelerating and … outcomes. In addition, it is hard to track progress towards these goals. Access to finance remains a challenge, decisions are often made …
Project, 30 August 2024
Dharavi slum, Mumbai, India (Photo: Akshay Mahajan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Data that supports local development
… Progress on all the goals and targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  and … Data that supports local development …
Insight, 22 September 2016
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Civic Entrepreneurship: In Search of Sustainable Development
… Around the world, civic entrepreneurs are practising sustainable development through their actions. Representing civil society, business, … resources or management systems in the service of collective goals. Perhaps the most challenging lesson of the decade since the Rio … Civic Entrepreneurship: In Search of Sustainable Development …
Publication, 01 January 2003
A container ship looms imposingly against a brilliant skyline
Monitoring and evaluation guidance for SDG14
… The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the leading initiatives for addressing the … with other goals and any potential trade-offs.  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encourages member states to conduct regular, … Sustainable markets …
Project, 29 July 2019
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
… women's voices loud enough in the policies spaces that will advance sustainable development? FD: I think we've seen some real progress in terms of … really achieve the mantra at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to leave no one behind, means challenging the social … Outstanding women in development …
Article, 08 March 2018
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A whole-landscape approach to green development in Africa
… The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a new agenda for development, with the ambitious aim of … can effectively contribute towards meeting the SDGs, and achieving sustainable development in Africa. … A whole-landscape approach to green development in Africa …
Publication, 01 December 2015
Man and woman cut a tree into planks.
United in a call for higher ambition on the global biodiversity agenda
… the most of COVID-19 constraints The partnership of environment and development organisations was established in anticipation of the IUCN … issues ranging from the scope and content of ambitious global goals for nature to governance for transformative change; from synergies with other conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals to intergenerational equity. Equity and …
Insight, 18 September 2020
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Towards a Transformative Post‐2015 Development Agenda - retreat 1
… On 2‐4 October 2013, the Independent Research Forum on a Post‐2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015)—a collaboration of leading sustainable … aim to support the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals and the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable … Towards a Transformative Post‐2015 Development Agenda - retreat 1 …
Publication, 01 October 2013
Landscape with a mine and blue sky.
Can the net-zero transition offer a new dawn for Africa’s industrialisation?
… some African nations. According to the International Energy Agency’s sustainable development scenario , by 2040, demand for copper by clean energy … trade facilitation and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. …
Insight, 16 May 2024