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A new sanitation block being constructed in Kibera settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. Most of Kibera's residents don't have access to electricity or running water (Photo: Sustainable Sanitation, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Finance for whom and for what?
… (PDF)  for the Addis Ababa Accord (a global framework for financing sustainable development) is out.  If this was the first document you had … change so fundamentally what is currently achieved? And to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ?  What do they have to do and how … as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural …
Insight, 31 March 2015
Climate, carbon, conservation and communities
… is. But as a new briefing paper by IIED and WWF-UK shows, careful planning and community involvement will be key to reaping the potential … lessons from the past few decades of biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management. As yet, they pay scant attention to …
News, 04 September 2007
REDD: Protecting climate, forests and livelihoods
… such as indiscriminate unenforced logging, less profitable than the sustainable alternative. REDD, as currently conceived, involves payments … actions that enable developing countries to conserve or sustainably use their forests (say, through more appropriate harvesting of wood and … communities, primarily through further weakening of their land and resource rights. There are also potential and complex links …
Article, 14 May 2009
Group of participants stand for a picture during the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013.
Forest Connect
… resource and business management that is critical for equitable and sustainable development. Unlike many industrial-scale business models, … forest management, legal trade, climate change and integrated land-use planning. At an international level, we gathered evidence of what …
Project, 12 September 2013
The UK government has warned that flooding is likely to become more frequent as the country’s climate changes (Photo: Dachlan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Celebrating 10 years of the UK Climate Change Act: an influential law beyond its borders
… addressing individual issues such as energy, pollution, transport and land use. But what marks this act out as an important model for other … such as the LDC Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative for Sustainable Development  and the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation … Policy and planning …
Insight, 26 November 2018
Traffic jam in China. Photo: Simon Lim
Green Growth, and how we get there
… in the informal economy, in the work of social enterprise and around land, water, and forests also needs to feature. By chance, Ecuador’s … for nature, and find a means to generate value from Ecuador’s non-use of oil and gas reserves. Overconsumption and inequality Fourth, …
Insight, 01 March 2013
Community participation, with a strong focus on women, such as this women's savings group in Southern India, is vital to develop slum-friendly cities (Photo: Maria Andersson/Individuell Människohjälp, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
What might slum dwellers want from the SDGs?
… SDGs is limited to what we can do – what is meaningful, useful and sustainable – and implementable. So our goal is not slum-free cities but … the SDG promises such as clean water and good sanitation for all, land tenure for people, incremental housing and basic employment are met … city programmes – beautiful red wine talk – but this did not deliver land tenure. There should be a commitment at Habitat III: no forced …
Insight, 05 October 2015
CBA13 networking: IIED senior fellow and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Saleemul Huq in conversation with Susan Nanduddu, director of the Uganda-based African Centre for Trade and Development
CBA13: event highlights
… is Rutta from @Helvetas with 'Aloe Vera 4 You', which provides a new sustainable income for vulnerable communities in Wag Hemra, Ethiopia. … to do our own businesses and to earn our own money. So that we can use our money to do our development, so that we are not always dependent … She said: "The current global economy should diversify funds to the land resource, and also be able to maintain the laws that govern the …
Article, 04 April 2019
En route to San José, Costa Rica. Credit: cicsc1970
Nature has values, and markets can be governed
… expensive fertilizers. But the benefits go beyond the farmer and the land they till. Well-managed land is often more biodiverse, and creates a beautiful landscape that we … world we find examples of initiatives that reward landowners for good land stewardship. Direct payments to landowners in Costa Rica – …
Insight, 10 August 2012
Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… grows rapidly, particularly in rural areas, causing significant land use change and environmental degradation. Global population of 13.5 … Agreement, bring to the future of our cities?   And looking to the Sustainable Development Goals, with their ambition for cities that are …
Insight, 07 October 2016