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vii The Millennium Development Goals and local processes: a summary
… Document begins: vii The Millennium Development Goals and local processes: a summary Any discussion of development … that can deliver the MDGs with regard to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use. It is perhaps stating the obvious that the … vii The Millennium Development Goals and local processes: a summary …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Villagers in Chitral protest about unreliable electricity supplies (Photo: Ground Report, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access
… people worldwide who live off grid. Goal seven of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is "to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable … Sustainable markets …
News, 16 March 2016
Fish for sale in a Sri Lankan market. Credit: Dhammika Heenpella (Flickr / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Ten ways to ensure there are plenty more fish in the sea
… As governments prepare to negotiate the text of a global set of goals that will form the post-2015 development agenda, they must look to the seas. Marine ecosystems … development agenda Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed is a researcher in IIED's sustainable markets group ( [email protected] ) … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 28 January 2014
Farmers carry bottled water to pour on a field of onion crops
Introduction to our work on climate-resilient development
Article, 17 December 2012
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Maun Statement on Biodiversity and Development Mainstreaming
… Biodiversity (2011-2020) urges the mainstreaming of biodiversity and development – particularly as part of the process of revising National … biodiversity concerns into defined sectors and development goals, through a variety of approaches and mechanisms, so as to achieve sustainable biodiversity and development outcomes. …
Publication, 01 January 2013
Malawi's statistics mask struggle to meet UN goal for water and sanitation in urban areas
… Malawi is failing to meet the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation in its urban areas and … is Accessing Water for the Common Good. The UN Millennium Development Goals were set in 2000 and include a target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. But as …
News, 13 August 2009
A fisher casting a net from a small boat surrounded by a large expanse of water
Closing the gap: financing the transition towards an inclusive blue economy
… is an urgent need to reverse this trend and transition to a more sustainable blue economy. A key challenge is mobilising adequate and … taxes, fees, subsidies and fiscal allocations to finance sustainable development.  The use of these instruments for domestic resource … development, including achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, fiscal tools are unlikely to provide enough resources to …
Event, 10 June 2020
A man stands behind an electricity generator
Energy literacy for all? Cracking the very hard 'soft side' of energy development
… shy to shout about it at times. It sounds woolly and anodyne; typical development blah blah.  Ministers want to talk about innovative … connecting and training people around energy. The  Low Emissions Development Strategy Global Partnership (LEDSGP) , the  Green Growth … , the  Climate Change Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)  and the  Sustainable Energy for All Practitioner Network  are just a few …
Insight, 22 September 2014
Woman looking to the front holding a water hose, a solar panel in the background
Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local
… needed to accelerate and deploy the SHS systems necessary to achieve sustainable energy for all (as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7  calls for) in Kenya. The Shell Foundation and … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 29 December 2020
The flag of the United Nations raised above the headquarters of the Habitat III Conference, held in Quito in Ecuador (Photo: Cancillería del Ecuador)
Sustainable cities: the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency
… The 11th Sustainable Development Goal explicitly commits to making cities and human settlements more resilient and sustainable, while the 'New Urban Agenda'  references 'resilience' and … provide useful frameworks for understanding and shaping urban development. And while these two objectives can complement each other, …
Insight, 05 May 2017