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Hilsa fish at a wholesaler fish market in Dhaka (Photo: Ina Porras/IIED)
The hilsa fishing ban: good for the fish, but good for the fisher?
… study is part of IIED's work on coastal fisheries exploring how local development can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the overarching commitment to ' leave no-one behind '.  …
Insight, 28 February 2017
Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
… of poverty without safe, reliable and affordable energy. Indeed, the Sustainable Development Goals recognise that energy access is crucial for giving everyone a fair …
Insight, 21 September 2017
A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)
Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
… approach to the SDGs This means that global initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be geographical goals, i.e. they can only be met if …
Insight, 26 August 2015
Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… signed by the EU with many countries also contain human rights and sustainable development clauses . Human rights clauses have been activated on a … violations in the Cambodian case. Sustainable Development Goals and beyond Growing numbers of organisations are stepping up …
Insight, 14 November 2013
Carina Millstone makes a Critical Theme presentation to IIED staff in May 2014 (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Critical theme: What would business look like in a steady-state economy?
… Carina Millstone, visiting research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, presented … early findings of research she is currently conducting on sustainable business practices.  IIED's previous Critical Theme took … help underpin the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.  In March 2014, Pavan Sukhdev, …
Event, 21 May 2014
A goal worth scoring: Lessons from winning football teams can improve the supply chains of commodities that drive deforestation. Credit: Cusia-Inc
Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania
… leather brands) and formation of the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock to develop principles and standards. The … policies by Cargill, a major commodity trader, has worked to promote sustainable soy production in Brazil. Such collective action can make a … aware of societal concerns, future comparative advantage based upon sustainable sourcing (avoiding deforestation and responsible use of …
Insight, 20 March 2014
The opening of the UN climate change talks in Bonn in June. The negotiators meet in Bonn again this week (Photo: UNClimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Climate negotiations: the last stop before Paris
… are no firm commitments to new, additional, adequate, predictable and sustainable public climate finance flows that will be regularly … the agreement. There must also be guaranteed support for technology development and transfer to meet the needs of developing countries, …
Insight, 19 October 2015
IIED senior associate Halina Ward, centre, at the Bond session on disruption and resilience in the global South
Disruption and resilience in the global South
… that we all want the same thing – a better, more equitable, just and sustainable world – we must find a way to achieve this together.  While … international agency, donor) to achieve clearly articulated common goals We value and hold in high regard the leadership, impact, capacity … solving, tenacity and resilience that Southern CSOs bring to the development sector. We value and hold in high regard the scale, …
Article, 29 March 2017
Mary Robinson addresses the Development and Climate Days, with (from left to right), Katharine Mach, IPCC; Claudia Martinez, CDKN; Janos Pasztor, UN (Photo: Climate Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mary Robinson: global solidarity needed to confront climate crisis
… which fall disproportionately on the poorest people. Speaking at the Development & Climate Days , a gathering of some 200 development practitioners, Robinson said that the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) agreed in September "will not be very meaningful" without …
Insight, 09 December 2015
Just 0.03 per cent of the money spent annually on fossil fuel subsidies could provide 200 million people in cities with access to the grid (Photo: Pexels, via Google licence)
Action from UN's Habitat III key to lift urban millions out of poverty
… This week, the International Institute for Environment and Development's (IIED)  urbanisation experts are in Quito, Ecuador for the … and productivity is crucial to enabling cities to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. And using renewable technology is necessary to their being able …
News, 17 October 2016