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Women in Ahmedabad, India, collect rubbish from 6,656 households that make up the slum area of Juna Vadaj, illustrating the energy and innovation that informal economies can bring to the sustainable development agenda (Photo: Pritpal Randhawa for STEPs)
Development frontiers
… Making sustainability work for everyone requires things to be done differently. Be it at the global … of what transition out of our current economy to one that is more sustainable will involve for real people, big companies, large … some of IIED's work on sustainable markets . Less growth, cleaner energy and more regulation will not deliver the transition to a low …
Insight, 21 March 2016
Manganese mining in Gabon (Photo: jbdodane, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
… Between 2000 and 2002, the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project carried out research, analysis … regional reports, project bulletins and workshop notes are available for free download. Introduction The mining and minerals industry has … to develop a more detailed framework for the process. The Mining and Energy Research Network (MERN) held an experts meeting to review the …
Project, 03 March 2009
A group of people standing outside
Event highlights: CBA15 – 15th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change
… Follow the links below to go directly to the highlights for each day of the 15th International Conference on Community-Based … and Resilience for the COP26 presidency and Minister of State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change.  Speaking via a video recording … Lodry Dongmo, African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development, Cameroon In the Marketplace: climate-proofing …
Article, 14 June 2021
Privatising Nigeria’s power sector
… protests on the fuel subsidies, will Nigerians accept to pay more for their electricity?  It’s likely that many won’t notice the increase … – an expensive, unreliable and noisy alternative to meet their energy needs. Cheap generators from China mean even the poor can often … prices this year - required as part of making grid operation sustainable and commercially viable - will likely be met by more …
Insight, 27 January 2012
The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why universality is a taxing agenda…
… last week felt like engaging in three worlds: the third Financing for Development Conference (FFD) main event, the myriad side events, and … and after. The two big policy events of 2015 – the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN General Assembly in … can raise revenue through their own domestic tax base. Much of the energy at Addis was around how poor countries can find ways to raise …
Insight, 20 July 2015
The logo of PAGE and information about the conference on 27-28 March 2017
IIED at ministerial green economy conference
… and IIED also exhibited in the parallel exhibition. The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)  was launched in 2013 by five UN … how economies and financial markets can be "enablers" for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement.  IIED and … Francesco La Camera, director general for Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate at the Ministry of Environment of Italy and Mao Amis, …
Event, 27 March 2017
This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)
2014: the International Year of Family Farming
… form of agriculture in the food production sector. What future for family farming? With more than 500 million family farms farming … we understand the strategic role of family farmers in achieving sustainable development. We are partners in the Forest and Farm Facility … producer agency in the globalised market and we began exploring the energy needs of smallholder agriculture to help enable producers to …
Article, 22 April 2014
New tools can measure the benefits of ecosystems such as coastal mangrove forests, such as this one in Mexico. Mangroves provide protection from coastal flooding and erosion, as well as nutrition for marine life (Photo: Peyri Herrera, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Action to protect nature and tackle poverty gathers momentum
… achieve ambitions set out in recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nonetheless, managing and … provide strong defences to flooding and erosion . Breeding grounds for fish generate income for thousands of artisanal and commercial … priorities dominate development efforts now as 20 years ago: water, energy and food security, health, safety, education. But participants …
Insight, 02 November 2016
Tackling the trade law dimension of ‘land grabbing’
… much talk about the imperative to ‘feed the planet’, opportunities for returns in lucrative export markets have been an important driver of … for the land rush. Take the case of European legislation on renewable energy . Currently, only biofuels produced in compliance with … signed by the EU with many countries also contain human rights and sustainable development clauses . Human rights clauses have been …
Insight, 14 November 2013
The morning fish auction at Mumbai's Ferry Wharf. Thousands of boats fish along the coast, putting acute pressure on fish stocks (Photo: lecercle, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
…   Already under high fiscal pressure, this is a challenging request for ministers of finance, who face the burden of having to provide for … as the Aichi targets, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). I joined a selected panel with Eike … from Indonesia and Vietnam, where sound ex-ante impact assessment of energy pricing reforms helped carefully identify the affected business …
Insight, 25 July 2017