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Indigenous women in Bangladesh's Lawachara National Park collecting wood for building (Photo: Fabian Lambeck, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Three ‘E’s to guide the post-2020 biodiversity roadmap
… definitions help us secure a future where targets for human development and protecting nature work in harmony? Let’s take diverse … and acted on would mark real progress in achieving the biodiversity goals. Diversity within these societies also needs to be understood, … of the post-2020 biodiversity framework including synergies with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement needs to build on …
Insight, 06 November 2018
Fairtrade – the gold standard?
… diamonds and gold) and thus promote both social and economic development within the sector. The Alliance of Responsible Mining (ARM) … in 2008 on certification in ASM as “ an emerging opportunity for sustainable development ”. This paper clearly outlines who can … organisations with demonstrated success in achieving developmental goals that are legal or in the process of legalising their operations. …
Insight, 11 August 2010
Mozambique: bringing the cattle in from the fields. Mozambique is vulnerable to climate change because of its geography, but also has a poorly developed economy, frail infrastructure, and high levels of poverty (Photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate finance from the aid budget must also deliver on poverty
Insight, 30 September 2015
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From Count-ability to Accountability: An Overview
… a transformative and universal agenda, and multiple players: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) imply many changes, including the need for new and more …
Publication, 01 May 2015
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
Article, 14 November 2008
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
… change on Least Developed Countries: are the SDGs possible? The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the United Nations' development agenda beyond 2015. But …
Article, 31 December 2015
An image of women selling produce in an internally displaced persons camp, near Tawilla in North Darfur. The 'leave no one behind' agenda aims to ensure the poor are included in sustainable development (Photo: UNAMID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'
… 'leave no one behind' could be interpreted will make implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more effective in practice. It recently convened a meeting …
Article, 24 May 2016
The CBD COP13 logo. IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December
IIED at the biodiversity COP in Cancun
… to negotiate international measures to ensure conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity. Some 10,000 people representing … of the convention's 2011-20 strategic plan and the Aichi goals , with an emphasis on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism … trends in China in the last 50 years. Mainstreaming biodiversity in development and the SDGs: sharing and developing workable solutions …
Event, 04 December 2016
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
… No one can accuse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of lacking ambition. If all their commitments are actually …
Insight, 08 September 2015
New Community Forest Instructions give communities rights to commercially sell timber and non-timber forest products, such as such as rattan and honey (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest rights create new livelihoods in Myanmar
… a wide range of support activities, including seedling and nursery development, plantation of both timber trees and crops, carpentry and … 'Forest users to producers: scaling up FFPOs business to implement Sustainable Development Goals in climate resilient landscapes', delivered an outcome statement …
Insight, 05 December 2017