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A market stall. According to recent studies, 75% of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and five animal species (Photo: Hivos)
Cooking for our future
… We all need to eat, (hopefully) three times a day. Demand for food is steady and constantly growing. Selling the right food … and too big to drive the types of innovation we need.”  Cooking up sustainable food systems One of the biggest trends in current food … also available on YouTube , captures their commitment, passion and energy. [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbL00XcXefk] We also …
Insight, 20 February 2019
Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
… Twenty years on from the first summit on sustainable development, yesterday the United Nations Conference on … Sustainable Development Bureau released their first negotiating draft for Rio+20 2012. They have called the draft ‘ the future we want ’. They … sustainable forest management and the new markets linked to renewable energy.  We are also pleased that our support for a social protection …
Insight, 13 January 2012
The St Briavels wind turbine in construction (left) and completed (right). Source: Abundance
Can investment crowdfunding deliver Sustainable Energy for All?
… on the border of England and Wales, it was a pioneering moment. For the first time, a renewable energy project had been built using the financial innovation known as … Briavels model help to raise capital to deliver the UN’s objective of Sustainable Energy for All , and what barriers to its implementation …
Insight, 20 October 2013
Achala C Abeysinghe (second left) recently spoke on a panel discussion at COP23 on Women Leading the World's Climate Agenda (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)
COP23 outcomes call for faster action and higher ambition to keep Paris on track
… hours later than COP23 was due to conclude – delegates applauded Fiji for its inspiring presidency at this year's UN climate talks. The tiny … by 2050 and a climate resilient world; it will also keep the Sustainable Development Goals within our reach. COP23 stood out for … share while proposing their own initiatives such as the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative (REEEI). But the drive and …
Insight, 21 November 2017
An orange sky
How can we avoid another ‘lost decade’ in the climate fight?
… gave us a moment of hope.   Abandoning Copenhagen’s proposals for ‘top-down’ architecture, the Paris Agreement (largely to accommodate … change. New leadership – particularly a change that reflects the full energy of the ‘Green New Deal’ proposals put to Congress in March – … mass of China and the EU can push for a new set of rules for a more sustainable global economy. Political and legislative processes in the …
Insight, 06 January 2020
Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)
The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
Insight, 24 June 2016
Fatima Denton delivers the 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture at the British Library in London in November 2014 (Photo: Julius Honnor/IIED)
2014 Barbara Ward Lecture: Fatima Denton calls for a "new paradigm" for African development
… of the African Climate Policy Centre of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) . She heads UNECA's Special Initiatives Division and … for the benefit of the whole world, while engineering its pathway to sustainable development, particularly in the domain of food production … $3.7 million USD to $22.8 million in less than four years. Renewable energy opportunities Denton said that Africa's current energy supply was …
Event, 20 November 2014
A vendor in India uses energy produced by a micro-grid funded by SunFunder (Photo: Sameer Halai/SunFunder)
Off-grid energy powered by the crowd
… How can the power of an immense crowd deliver sustainable energy access? Different models of crowdfunding are being used … of thousands around the globe. When it comes to India, the need for private funding for energy is patent. Ambitious goals set by the … Energy … Sustainable markets … Off-grid energy powered by the crowd …
Insight, 09 April 2015
Guinea's Kaleta dam was completed by a Chinese company in 2015, ending chronic power shortages in the capital city, Conakry (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)
How a new ECOWAS directive could change the way dams are built and managed in West Africa
… Controversy has surrounded large-scale dams for decades. On one side, they provide electricity and secure food and … sceptics, but I am not among them.  The quest for sustainability  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) confirmed the imperative for large … returns (where data exist) have been generally good in terms of energy generation, but agricultural components have been more …
Insight, 08 August 2017
Slash and burn, pictured in the Mopeia district, Zambezia province, Mozambique, has a noble motive – feeding families - but it is not sustainable (Photo: Isilda Nhantumbo/IIED)
REDD+: missionaries, conservation fortresses and the politics of carbon landscapes in Africa
… Zimbabwe, asking whether these bring the expected impact (a win-win for environment and people) in conserving or managing trees for carbon … productive and climate-smart solutions on both the agriculture and energy fronts. But we have to want to use past knowledge and experience. … role in shifting the development paradigm towards economies based on sustainable land uses. The message from various discussions at the …
Insight, 23 December 2015