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Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
… years as director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), I will be stepping down next year.    I am both sad … areas – climate change, natural resources, human settlements, and sustainable markets – and is challenging us to focus on four areas where … shall stay focused on delivering both programmatic and institutional goals until we welcome our new director. Please also watch this space as …
Insight, 29 October 2014
Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)
Cameron can assure a lasting legacy
Insight, 07 June 2015
A collection of IIED's most downloaded publications in 2014 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2014: publications
… Sustainable Development Goals: a forest module for a transformative agenda This report says … with trees) are such an important part of a number of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that we recommend working towards a …
Article, 29 December 2014
The island nation of Tuvalu is one of the Least Developed Countries that is particularly vulnerable to climate change, with an average elevation of just two meters above sea level (Photo: Nick Hobgood, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The road through Paris: key messages for ministers
Insight, 09 November 2015
It would cost less than $7 per person a year to provide 200 million people, most of whom are in sub-Saharan Africa, with access to electricity (Photo: Alamy, via Google licence)
New finance needed to connect 200 million people in cities to grid and help tackle poverty
News, 14 October 2016
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… SDGs is limited to what we can do – what is meaningful, useful and sustainable – and implementable. So our goal is not slum-free cities but … by which to achieve each of these. Even to achieve the more modest goals for slum-friendly cities means that governments have to do three … doing now. Will action on the SDGs be any better than the Millennium Development Goals? So much high talk of all the goals in last 15 years …
Insight, 05 October 2015
Oil platforms
Will COVID-19 leave fuel-rich African countries gasping for breath?
… and reliance on global value chains. From health crisis to development crisis? The crisis has deep implications for sectors that … reserves, compromised social spending, and the derailing of hard-won sustainable development achievements. A stark warning Africa faces a … will derail the achievement of almost all the Sustainable Development Goals . In Africa, where leaders are struggling to square the …
Insight, 27 April 2020
An image of a man with a wheelbarrow in the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, the biggest in Africa and one of the biggest in the world. The rights of all must be incorporated into the 'new urban agenda' (Photo: Steffan Jensen/www.reversehomesickness.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Recognising urban rights: global debates and local struggles
… to extensive discussion around the role of human rights in promoting sustainable, inclusive and equitable urbanisation. The recently-released … support for landmark international agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement .  While the Universal Declaration …
Insight, 26 May 2016
Around a billion urban dwellers live in informal settlements such as these. Without far more effective policies, their population could rise to 2 billion by 2030 (Photo: Mark Edwards)
Ten essentials for the New Urban Agenda in one page
… will seek global political commitment to making urban centres more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. But the latest draft of the New … outcome from Habitat III. The text does not include many important goals. It seeks instead to push attention away from long lists that … The New Urban Agenda must support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We commit to supporting urban governments to …
Insight, 19 July 2016
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Poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation: rebuilding the bridges
… Has biodiversity ‘all but disappeared from the global dialogue on sustainable development’ as Sanderson & Redford fear? Here we explore the poverty … and debate the role of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in building bridges between the two. Sanderson & Redford are not …
Publication, 01 April 2004