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Fishermen from Mayadip Island, Bangladesh. IIED will be discussing Bangladesh's work on payments for sustainable fisheries at the EDD15 forum (Photo: Matthew Becker, the Advocacy Project, Creative Commons via Flickr)
IIED at European Development Days 2015
… European Development Days is Europe's largest development forum, organised … by the European Commission to share ideas on how to achieve a sustainable, poverty-free world. EDD15 was held in Brussels on 3 and 4 … rare example of a direct economic incentive mechanism being used for sustainable fisheries management. Among the questions discussed during …
Event, 03 June 2015
Quechua woman
Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for sustainable development. For many of the world’s 476 million Indigenous … guide all aspects of life. Rather than privileging human economic goals and pursuing nature conservation separately, many Indigenous …
Insight, 12 April 2021
Mechanical workshop
Productive uses of energy: what does it take to stimulate demand?
… the impacts over time?  The world remains far off-track in reaching Sustainable Development Goal 7: access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all . One major challenge is financing …
Event, 23 June 2021
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The devolved climate finance mechanisms: principles, implementation and lessons from four semi-arid countries
Publication, 01 September 2019
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Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
… and human wellbeing and threatens to undermine efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Recognising the scale and urgency of the challenge, in 2020 …
Publication, 27 August 2021
A girl studies under the light of a rechargeable solar lamp
Improving people’s access to sustainable energy
… researches the potential of initiatives to improve people’s access to sustainable energy to promote socio-economic development and reduce poverty. Adapting initiatives to specific social, … energy sources around the world, and improving energy efficiency. The goals are laudable, but can the initiative make a difference? IIED has …
Project, 26 October 2012
Someone puts the final piece of a jigsaw into the puzzle
Is SDG evaluation just business as usual?
… Yes, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) evaluation could be considered business as usual, … ambitions underlying Agenda 2030 make it clear that we cannot. A more sustainable and equitable world simply cannot be achieved by 2030 if we … at them as part of a massive, global, results framework made of 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 indicators. Essentially, we can think of them …
Insight, 21 April 2020
Paul, a gold prospector in Burkina Faso (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR)
Six steps forward for African mining
… environmental damage and the lack of effort to make mining operations sustainable. The two events running in parallel highlight the industry's … and the people-centred are starting to converge. A shift towards sustainable mining?  For the first time, the Mining Indaba agenda included a 'Sustainable Development Day' when AMI participants, including civil society …
Insight, 01 March 2017
An Ethiopian government delegation learns about energy innovations in a climate smart village in Kenya. Ethiopia's government hopes to combine climate resilience with economic growth (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
Insight, 18 January 2016
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The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation Managing Nature's Wealth for Society's Health
… Document begins: The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation Managing Nature's Wealth for Society's Health … Hooper (UNDP) and Andrew Deutz (IUCN). IIED's work on international sustainable development governance issues focuses on ways in which … The Millennium Development Goals and Conservation Managing Nature's Wealth for …
Publication, 01 January 1970