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Some of the publications published by IIED during 2016 (Image: Annette McGill/IIED)
IIED's best of 2016: publications
… Evaluation: a crucial ingredient for SDG success The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development calls for follow-up and review processes that examine progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Such processes are needed at all levels, but especially at …
Article, 02 January 2017
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
… reinforce the universal, integrated and transformative nature of a sustainable development agenda" and communicate this agenda. He also urges coherence … Development (FfD), the finalisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their agreement at the post-2015 summit and the …
Insight, 15 December 2014
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… support climate change adaptation and end hunger, including the Sustainable Development Goals. We'll keep you posted as the scheme moves ahead. Krystyna …
Insight, 16 January 2017
David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements research group, addresses the conference on urban crises (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Urban crises conference: time to put learning into practice
… a three-year project funded by the UK's Department of International Development (DFID) examining how best to respond to crises in urban … the importance of taking action in urban areas – including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Agreement and the New Urban Agenda agreed at the 2016 …
News, 23 November 2017
Drilling for oil in Mali.
IIED urges G8 to see transparency as critical step on road to accountability
… but as a critical step on the road to accountability and fair and sustainable development. Information alone is not enough. People need to be able to … (EITI), the question remains of how to make transparency work for sustainable development . G8 leaders need to see transparency not as an …
News, 14 June 2013
The Nairobi Declaration will be taken to this year's UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) by Fatima Mohamed Hussein, on behalf of the Kenyan government, the conference hosts (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Global leaders must not neglect the world's poor and vulnerable
… and most vulnerable in 2015's series of high-level environment and development summits. From April 27-30, representatives from governments, … support. Politicians and leaders will meet to draft agreements on Sustainable Development Goals, Financing for Development and Climate Change under the UN …
News, 30 April 2015
A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.
The case for sewers
… of low-income households benefited The Community Organizations Development Institute (CODI) in Thailand supported community-led … to meet the sanitation needs of their growing populations. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require access to adequate and equitable sanitation for all …
Insight, 19 November 2021
A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi
As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops
… have the food they need is key. Not just in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals’ target of zero hunger , but to make sure the Himalayas can …
Insight, 29 October 2018
Women walk along a red dirt road in Benin.
Is the tide turning for Africa’s investment treaties?
… to reconcile investment protection with a wider set of policy goals. Take the legal requirement for the two governments to accord to … has increased pressure on governments to take fuller account of sustainable development considerations in investment treaties. In addition, …
Insight, 08 March 2013
Woman cooks using wood fire
Feeding all city inhabitants
… adults, and underweight and stunted children. Achieving the second Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of …
Insight, 27 June 2021