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Evaluation of IIED’s Environmental Economics work
… emerging trends. It concludes that IIED has been working on important sustainable development issues and has been relatively successful in researching … economics to tackle issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals and green economy that are likely to be important in the …
Publication, 01 January 2014
Financiers, decision makers, practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered to share lessons and their experience in channelling finance to local levels (Image: Matt Wright/IIED)
Money where it matters: how to deliver finance to the local level
… Realising the world's ambitions to combat climate change and promote sustainable development will cost 'billions to trillions' of dollars. There has been … and on IIED's SlideShare site . Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement at the local level Unlocking …
Insight, 15 December 2016
A new map produced by IIED shows seven types of innovative governance. Click on the image to see the map (Image: IIED)
Driving change by supporting action at the local level
Insight, 24 November 2015
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
Event, 06 November 2017
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… expanding businesses, do not of themselves produce healthy cities, or sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of … its importance for "our common home" – and for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , finalised at the end of September — was raised by Pope …
Insight, 12 October 2015
Seydou Kassojue, 47, has a garden plot where he grows lettuce close to the Sélingué dam in Mali. The Global Water Initiative has been working with smallholders in the area since 2009 to find out how the dam affects the livelihoods of local farmers and what improvements could be made (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Can dams work for local communities alongside national good?
… often the subject of negative headlines, due to their impact on local sustainable development. The Global Water Initiative (GWI) in West Africa will be … to all the challenges at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the previous Millennium Development Goals. The GWI in …
News, 18 August 2015
Africa is the last place on Earth with a significant assemblage of large mammals, according to the IPBES report (Photo: Kasia Wallis, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Warnings on state of life on our planet are loud, clear and alarming
… is not taken, we will do more than miss the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change – we will be shooting …
News, 23 March 2018
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) contributed to an Independent Research Forum … beefed up by the addition of targets on trade-distorting subsidies, sustainable and resilient food systems, market stability, conduct of … international cooperation that are necessary to deliver the proposed goals (the so-called "means of implementation"). These include policy …
Insight, 20 June 2014
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Creating a new menu for food security policy
… recognise the crucial interdependence between urbanisation and rural development. Unless food policy reflects this shifting terrain, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda will be put at risk. …
Publication, 01 December 2015
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Vulnerable communities: getting their needs and knowledge into climate policy
Publication, 01 November 2015