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Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment of Brazil, taken during the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011.
Influencing the outcomes at Rio+20
… process. The “zero draft text” produced by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development so far suggests that leaders won’t be asked to sign up to … Peru have espoused the potential of global Sustainable Development Goals . It would seem that older established economies have a harder …
Insight, 24 May 2012
IIED director Camilla Toulmin speaks in a plenary session on day one of IIED's Fair Ideas event in Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Tom Broadhurst/IIED)
The things that make me proud
… a practical difference – where the barriers between research and development had been broken down.  In the 1987 IIED annual report, it … World Bank and other development institutions starting to establish Sustainable Development units, and at grassroots level, NGOs … to be afoot again now as reflected in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Just the fax, ma'am To give something of an idea of what …
Insight, 22 June 2015
An IIED workshop that aims to explore the latest thinking on REDD+ gets under way (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Coverage of Moving ahead with REDD+: Prospects and challenges workshop
… event also focused on IIED's forthcoming work on REDD+ and how the Sustainable Development Goals can complement REDD+, and saw the launch of a new …
Event, 09 April 2014
The Forest Investment Program, an example of an investment fund with simplified funding frameworks, has invested $10 million in a $24 million project with the African Development Bank to restore Ghana's rapidly degrading forests (Photo: Greg Neate, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Six steps to local climate finance
… large-scale results; traditional financing intermediaries (e.g. development banks) shying away from small-scale projects with higher … finance in practice  And yet despite these barriers, there are both development and climate funds that reach communities and these prove … programmes can deliver a 'triple-win'. Such programmes offer more sustainable results at lower costs, stronger local capacity, and …
Insight, 06 November 2016
Cover for G00044.pdf
SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology
… SouthSouthNorth Adaptation Methodology Content: SSN ­ experience and goals SSN ­ new Programme approach SSN Adaptation Programme New SSN … share two decades of experience in fields of: climate change, sustainable development, sustainable energy, poverty reduction, social …
Publication, 01 January 1970
The Sundarbans mangrove forest (dark green on the image) is a fragile ecosystem threatened by rising levels of salinity (Photo: European Space Agency)
Making ecosystems resilient through Bangladesh's Delta Plan
… management of the Delta's water resources is crucial to national development. The Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 sets out a vision for the … Delta in response to these challenges. It seeks to balance economic development – in line with the country's goal to achieve upper … specific interventions needed to make it robust. Healthy ecosystems, sustainable adaptation options, resilient communities – targets …
Insight, 12 June 2017
Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill
Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations
… by governments. Q: To what extent are housing rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) changing government approaches? The SDGs and the New Urban …
Article, 22 October 2020
People need at least US$50 to survive for a month in Hanoi. This is twice the official urban poverty line (Photo via Commons Wikimedia/Google licence)
If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count
… United Nations all use poverty lines to set policy. The Millennium Development Goals, for instance, use US$1.25 a day as the line that marks extreme poverty. The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals will probably do the same.  But this …
Insight, 12 June 2014
Deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which has been pledged US$1 billion pledge of REDD+ finance from Norway (Photo: Josh Estey/Aus Aid, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
What's next for REDD+?
… address the drivers of deforestation in the broader context of local development, which means tackling both the forest sector management … of biomass energy, and integrated land use planning for more sustainable mining and infrastructure development. The solution for the … from the forest sector alone. Underlying the drivers are economic goals such as meeting growth ambitions, creating jobs, reducing poverty …
Insight, 29 April 2014
Small-scale producers and standards in agrifood supply chains
… the importance of these producers for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals this is of major concern. This joint DFID-IIED-NRI programme … Information on standards setting and compliance issues for rural development, including the costs and benefits of compliance with … Sustainable markets …
Project, 02 October 2008