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Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)
Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
… evident to the participants how potent ASM's contribution to local development can be. One could even argue that the potential for achieving national development and regional cooperation presented a 'eureka moment' to the … and optimal exploitation of mineral resources to underpin broad-based sustainable growth and socio-economic development. View a collection of …
Insight, 07 December 2017
A family harvesting potatoes in front of a lake, with a landscape of mountains in the background.
Biocultural heritage territories: key to halting biodiversity loss
… areas in order to meet the CBD post-2020 targets as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The concept of ‘biocultural heritage’ reflects the …
News, 23 September 2020
Cattle drinking water from a lake
Lessons from Paris: global biodiversity framework must engage business, grow finance
… seeking to reduce fossil fuel subsidies to meet climate mitigation goals, and Governments must mainstream biodiversity across all types of … to efforts by some businesses to align with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals .  Commitments to biodiversity risk disclosure and …
Insight, 11 May 2021
A man and a woman holding a machete stand in front of a tree in a forest
Introduction to forest-climate action
Article, 12 October 2021
Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda
… the spoons"  - Ralph Waldo Emerson The promise of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda that is emerging from a drawn-out United Nations … realised. The proposed set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has the potential to provide a 21st century update to the …
Insight, 28 January 2015
The event was held in the Africa pavilion at the Paris climate summit (Photo: IIED)
COP21 side event discusses how to unlock climate finance for developing countries
… to help them meet the twin challenges of climate change and sustainable development.  Organisers said the Sustainable Development Goals and the climate targets due to be set in Paris would only be …
News, 02 December 2015
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Bridging the gap: how inclusive finance boosts access to off-grid energy
… Governments hoping to harness these technologies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 — universal access to energy by 2030 — must therefore …
Publication, 01 February 2019
A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… How can the power of an immense crowd deliver sustainable energy access? Different models of crowdfunding are being … India, the need for private funding for energy is patent. Ambitious goals set by the Government of Narendra Modi urge diversifying funding … Lopicich ([email protected]) is managing director at the NGO Innovation, Development and Equity in Santiago, Chile, and a consultant with …
Insight, 09 April 2015
Three people sat around a table speaking into microphones
Seizing opportunities for urban change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 3
… provides an opportunity to hear our researchers discuss key global development challenges and explain how they are working to support … agencies’ measures of what it means to be poor in city. Global goals are built on local gains With the 'new urban agenda', Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals, ambitions for sustainable urbanisation …
Article, 04 February 2020
The Asian Development Bank is helping herders in Mongolia combat the consequences of climate change by training them to cultivate fodder or animal feed that is more resilient towards extreme weather changes, using plants that are adapted to the area (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Finance for inclusive investment in climate resilient development
… (AAAA) agreed at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development could drive the kind of solutions that we desperately need … sectors – including investment in social protection, public services, sustainable and resilient infrastructure and inclusive … regulatory incentives to align private sector interests with public goals and to ensure financial inclusion; financial initiatives to work …
Insight, 03 August 2015