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Ocean and fisheries economics - our work
… depend on them, and to help shape policy options for realising the Sustainable Development Goals. …
Publication, 01 April 2016
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SENTINEL: Social and environmental trade-offs in African agriculture
… services and promoting social equality, lies at the heart of sustainable development. Over four years (2017-2021), SENTINEL aims to understand … and synergies inherent in working towards these development goals in sub-Saharan Africa. That knowledge will help governments and …
Publication, 01 October 2017
Crop field with man watering the soil.
Reconciling food production and forest conservation: priorities for the UN Food Systems Summit
… for reigniting the world’s collective ambition to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.  The summit is organised into five action tracks . I will …
Insight, 20 September 2021
A Vietnamese man poses in front of buildings and piles of timber
Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects
… included the landmark book ‘ No Timber Without Trees ’ on sustainable forest management. Some of the team's early achievements … recent, archived projects: Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework In preparation for the introduction and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, this project was designed  to incorporate forest-related targets …
Article, 22 February 2019
A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)
Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
… finance work.  The question was raised at last week's United Nations Sustainable Energy For All Forum – and will be the focus of a session organised by CAFOD , CIDSE and IIED at the European Union Development Days (EDD) in Brussels next week. What are the different … poorest people? The EDD is the EU's annual development forum and ' sustainable energy for growth ' is a key theme this year. The EU has …
Insight, 29 May 2015
Around 80 per cent of schools in Haiti are privately run, and the good ones too expensive for children from poor areas like Cité Soleil (Photo: Breezy Baldwiin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ending endemic violence through education in Cité Soleil
… of the area through education.  As governments look to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the goals to ensure access to education, to …
Insight, 10 June 2016
The island state of Tuvalu is profoundly threatened by climate change. Tuvalu’s Prime Minister announced plans to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020. He was one of several LDC leaders to announce climate action. (Photo: Tomoaki Inaba)
Bold climate pledges from the Least Developed Countries
Insight, 28 September 2014
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… planning processes. It isn’t prioritised in national or sectoral development and poverty reduction strategies, despite its importance to … can also provide pathways out of poverty – for example through sustainable tourism, wildlife trade and other natural resource based … be trade-offs between meeting conservation, climate and development goals – particularly if they are considered in isolation. The …
Article, 16 August 2013
New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum
… achieve ambitions set out in recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nonetheless, managing and protecting these resources needs … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 02 November 2016
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From the MDGs to the SDGs and Habitat III
… In 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals. And the …
Publication, 01 April 2016