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Aerial view of poor community. Overtext reads "We can shape the future"
Happy new super year! Why is 2021 such a big deal for climate, nature and people?
Insight, 02 February 2021
Man next to a pile of dried crops of maize.
New guide for linking sovereign debt to climate and nature action
Insight, 02 November 2021
Cover for 16537IIED.pdf
Turning green the strategic way: the role and potential of strategic environmental assessment in securing a green economy
… Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a powerful process for integrating environmental and linked social and economic concerns into … conference in 2012, the emergent green economy concept was a central theme, but it was agreed that nationally (as opposed to globally) driven … Economics … Turning green the strategic way: the role and potential of strategic environmental assessment in securing a green economy …
Publication, 01 May 2013
Cover for G04353.pdf
Financing for Sustainable Development:
… and on Desertification as well as for disaster risk reduction and environmental themes such as sustainable land management. The paper …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Cover for G02248.pdf
CSR and Trade & Investment Promotion
… This paper is the result of a scoping exercise in relation to this theme, carried out in collaboration with IIED’s Environmental Economics Programme (EEP), which has a research interest in investment …
Publication, 01 October 2003
A gold-plated "supercar". London's newspapers recently reported on a Saudi Arabian prince who had four gold-plated sports cars flown to London for his use while on holiday (Photo: Alexandre Prévot, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Critical theme: tackling inequality and unsustainable consumption
… questions: How can policies designed to reduce inequality factor in environmental impact?  How could governments use additional revenue from … , report by Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, 2015 About the Critical Theme series IIED set up the 'Critical Theme' discussion series to explore new ideas and to broaden the …
Event, 20 April 2016
Home workers making bouquets (Photo: Siddharth Agarwal/UHRC)
Addressing risks facing informal workers
… between these in relation to public health, occupational health and environmental health? How do the current and projected impacts of … initiatives to address risks, strengthen assets and promote public, environmental and occupational health, while also enhancing their … can thrive even in the face of occupational, climate-related and environmental health risks. In June 2022 three case studies were …
Project, 01 October 2018
Women smallholders replanting rice in the irrigated area around the Bagré dam in Burkina Faso (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Water and land rights – hand-in-hand for sustainable development
… and partners from Mali and Senegal. 'Water for development', the theme that set the scene for this year's conference, made the link with … integrated into the expected climate agreement . This year's theme fitted particularly well with our GWI work in West Africa on how … study highlighted the need to improve coordination of land, water and environmental policies. I agree, particularly if we look again at the …
Insight, 25 September 2015
People sit on wall facing a woman distributing water
Working with informality for more resilient, equitable responses to COVID-19
… in the context of Zimbabwe’s existing political, economic and environmental shocks and stresses . As such, it is important to …
Article, 10 July 2020
Cover for G04371.pdf
Towards a Transformative Post‐2015 Development Agenda - retreat 1
… the globe—hosted the first in a series of informal retreats on the theme “Towards a Transformative Post‐ 2015 Development Agenda.” The … goal framework can be designed to integrate the economic, social and environmental dimensions of poverty eradication and sustainable …
Publication, 01 October 2013