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COVID-19: IIED in the media
… and long-lasting repercussions for communities, markets and sustainable development around the world. Our researchers are providing analysis, … policies need to be green and social so the Sustainable Development Goals can be met and 20 years of development gains in the poorest …
Article, 14 April 2020
Public protests against new dams in Patagonia. RIMISP's study shows the need for public consultation on major infrastructure projects (Photo: Glenn Switkes/International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Learning the lessons from Chile's energy transformation
… The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer huge promise of a better world – with 17 goals … perhaps because it was organised according to the proposed sustainable development goals and targets rather than the policy …
Insight, 23 March 2015
Defining the agenda for Rio +20: my analysis
… The UN draft agenda revealing the vision for Rio +20 sustainable development goals and what might be decided at the conference in June 2012 has been …
Insight, 12 January 2012
Markets for environmental services case studies
Project, 08 May 2008
Trees, poverty and targets: forests and the MDGs
… James Mayers. "These services are the foundation for the Millennium Development Goals – but they are not treated as such." The six-page report … America that are contributing to the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Mayers writes that such evidence points to the need …
News, 18 April 2007
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Instruments for Sustainable Private Forestry in Brazil: An analysis of needs, challenges and opportunities for natural forest management and small-scale plantation forestry (Instrumentos para o manejo sustentavel do setor florestal privado no Brasil)
… Brazil presents particular challenges for sustainable forest management. Much of its forest is on private land and … while forests have traditionally been seen as obstacles to development. Most private sector forestry in the Amazon is … Instruments for Sustainable Private Forestry in Brazil: An analysis of needs, challenges …
Publication, 01 January 2002
People planting seedlings in water
Towards better assessment of adaptation results
Insight, 31 October 2019
Nepalese women carry wood harvested sustainably from a forest. Forests cover nearly half of Nepal (Photo: Bikas Rauniar/Department for International Development, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
Insight, 27 November 2015
Vendor cutting fish in the market.
Evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale fisheries and its markets
… The sector is crucial to people’s nutrition, food security, sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing worldwide as it employs  90% of … the implications of COVID-19 in our progress to the achievement of  Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 : gender equality.  Grassroot market …
Project, 28 January 2021
A wholesale fish market in Cox's Bazar on the Bay of Bengal. Fishing communities need access to finance and infrastructure such as clean water, refrigeration and transport (Photo: Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?
… The ambition of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets, according to the introductory text, …
Insight, 11 July 2016