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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
… extensive experience of working on the environment and international development, including lobbying at UN climate change conferences and … Sustainable markets …
Event, 20 April 2016
It would cost less than $7 per person a year to provide 200 million people, most of whom are in sub-Saharan Africa, with access to electricity (Photo: Alamy, via Google licence)
New finance needed to connect 200 million people in cities to grid and help tackle poverty
… According to the International Institute for Environment and Development's (IIED) report ' Cities as engines of economic growth: the … in urban wellbeing and productivity are key to achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. …
News, 14 October 2016
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… than ever there was an increased focus on using video to communicate sustainable development issues.  But while innovation and creatively were still to … series designed to create space for conversation on key and current sustainable development issues, has been particularly active in ensuring …
Insight, 30 December 2020
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Contribution by the International Institute for Environment and Development and its partners to the UK International Development Committee's inquiry on Migration and Development November 2003
… Contribution by the International Institute for Environment and Development and its partners to the UK International Development … non-profit policy research institute working to promote more sustainable and equitable global development. We are based in London and … providing innovative ideas to push policy forward in favour of more sustainable and equitable patterns of development. Our long-standing …
Publication, 01 November 2003
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… the world. Let us mourn Cecil, but be careful what we wish for. Sustainable agriculture in China: then and now March: The environmental … Beijing that analysed the challenges and opportunities for  promoting sustainable agricultural practices in China. China's venerable history … at the potential impacts of climate change on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals .     Clearly, there is a need for these discussions …
Article, 22 December 2015
Traders take matooke to market
Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos
… in social and environmental measures and come up with figures of “sustainable competitiveness”. Keeping it formal The report says one … they should reflect on how informal economies ensure those “sustainable and affordable supplies of critical natural resources”. … whether formal markets and value chains — as espoused by so many development agencies — can provide the “resilient dynamism” that Davos …
Insight, 22 January 2013
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Basic Service Provision for the Urban Poor: The Experience of Development Workshop in Angola
… This paper describes the water and sanitation programmes that the NGO Development Workshop has developed in Luanda over the last 15 years, … Basic Service Provision for the Urban Poor: The Experience of Development Workshop in Angola …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… 43 ‘Voluntary National Reviews’ (VNRs) of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Extending a 2016 analysis, it finds that monitoring … will play a key role in national and global review systems for the Sustainable Development Goals. IIED and EVALSDGs have published a series …
Article, 21 December 2018
A market in Fort Portal (Photo: Sister Haiti, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Making sure Fort Portal's 'modernisation' plan feeds the poor
… is an opportunity to plan the growth of the town in an inclusive and sustainable way, shifting the focus to 'softer' infrastructure (e.g. … between rural and urban areas during this period of growth and urbanisation. Working in collaboration with IIED and Hivos , KRC is … dialogue with the local authorities to contribute to the shaping and development of the town.  We are looking at larger cities like Kampala …
Insight, 11 December 2015
People in a food market
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
… powerful, sometimes politically-connected, hoard opportunities for development. This reinforces existing divides and limits the social and … of the most disadvantaged. For instance, the National District Development Fund in Niassa, Mozambique’s northern province, was seen as …
Insight, 29 August 2019