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From Count-ability to Accountability: An Overview
… a transformative and universal agenda, and multiple players: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) imply many changes, including the need for new … From Count-ability to Accountability: An Overview …
Publication, 01 May 2015
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Low-carbon energy development in Nigeria
… This paper provides a broad overview of the state of low-carbon development in Nigeria and its … into the sector, to enforce efficiency measures, establish sustainable tariff practices, demonstrate the feasibility~of renewable … Low-carbon energy development in Nigeria …
Publication, 01 December 2012
MMSD – regional reports
… | South Africa Australia MMSD: Managing Australian mineral wealth for sustainable economic development South America Mineração e Desenvolvimento Sustentável: … economic development and the transition to sustainable development An overview of the impact of mining and mineral processing operations on … Sustainable markets …
Article, 03 March 2009
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Taking adaptation to the ground: a story of accessing climate finance through a Small Grants Facility to support ecosystem-based adaptation
… for community-based organisations and many lessons were learnt. This overview tells the stories from vulnerable communities in the … Facility (SGF) as a financing mechanism to deliver tangible and sustainable adaptation benefits to people and nature. It also provides …
Publication, 29 July 2021
Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World
… The authors elaborate on the concept of sustainable development and illustrate how environmental economics can be applied to the developing world. Beginning with an overview of the concept of sustainable development, the authors indicate … Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World …
Publication, 01 January 1990
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… It will also be a crunch year for international environment and development diplomacy. The 2030 international development agenda – anchored around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – will reach its mid-point and … and wild-caught protein. Our issue paper  and briefing  provide an overview of the evidence that biodiversity loss is not just an …
Insight, 29 April 2019
Rehema Peter Mushi mines red garnets and sapphires in Tanzania. She recently won a grant to purchase equipment (Photo: Magali Rochat/IIED)
IIED to host 3rd online artisanal and small-scale mining day
… online space to share ideas for building a safer, more inclusive, sustainable and productive ASM sector.  Using the #shareASM hashtag will … IIED's ASM programme: Read this blog on using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining Watch … impact of mining in ' Sapphire mines that become forests ' Read an overview of IIED's artisanal and small-scale mining dialogue work in …
News, 02 March 2018
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Investment treaties and sustainable development: an overview (Burmese language)
… proper reflection and public debate on these policy choices. This overview briefing is the first of four promoting debate on IITs and sustainable development and has been produced under IIED’s Legal tools for citizen … Investment treaties and sustainable development: an overview (Burmese language) …
Publication, 01 May 2014
Weighing sacks of coffee beans in Colombia's southwestern Cauca department (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT)
Environmental Funds: sustainable finance for conservation
… working with extractive companies and teaching rural communities sustainable fishing practices. It was in these meetings that I first … funding for biodiversity conservation, protected areas, sustainable development and/or broader national or regional conservation objectives. … Latin America, the Caribbean, and Australasia, providing a broad overview of how to create a CTF, describing its legal and institutional …
Insight, 23 July 2014
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Financing a Sustainable World
… An overview of recommendations for elements of an outcome from the Third International Conference on Financing for Development to be held in Addis Ababa in July 2015. … Financing a Sustainable World …
Publication, 01 February 2015