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Improving Access to Water and Sanitation: Rethinking the way forward in light of the Millennium Development Goals
… international agencies have committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, one of which is to achieve environmental … is: To halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development added a sanitation target: To halve, by the year …
Publication, 01 January 2003
Water tank made of stones
Working with nature to manage water resources in a changing climate
… to devise and implement their own watershed plans. To facilitate sustainable management of Uganda’s water resources, the government …
Insight, 22 March 2021
Hội An, Vietnam: in many towns in the developing world, street vendors constitute a significant share of total employment in the informal economy (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Green economy must work for street vendors as well as Wall Street
… green economy, as well as many national green growth plans and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), make little reference to the billions of … these groups are ignored, this means that opportunities for smart, sustainable development that works for communities are being missed.  …
News, 24 February 2016
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China's path to a green economy: decoding China’s green economy concepts and policies
… China’s transition to a green economy has immense implications for sustainable development both domestically and worldwide. Yet China’s green economy … and players in finance, environmental industry, energy, forestry, urbanisation and industrial production, and iv) examining stakeholder …
Publication, 01 February 2015
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Fair ideas conference programme 16th June
… sessions contribute to one or more of the event’s key themes: Shaping Sustainable Development Goals~ Urbanisation that improves lives~ Business models for sustainability~ …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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Fair ideas conference programme 17th June
… sessions contribute to one or more of the event’s key themes: Shaping Sustainable Development Goals~ Urbanisation that improves lives~ Business models for sustainability~ …
Publication, 01 March 2012
Mumbai's Dharavi settlement has a thriving informal economy. The government's redevelopment schemes have been hit by controversy and stalled for more than a decade (Photo: Jon Hurd, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
… expanding businesses, do not of themselves produce healthy cities, or sustainable or inclusive cities, or cities adapted to the effects of … its importance for "our common home" – and for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , finalised at the end of September — was … climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as sustainable urbanisation. Expanding the common good Within any city, there are …
Insight, 12 October 2015
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Sustainable animal welfare: community-led action for improving care and livelihoods (PLA 66)
… action in India to improve animal health and work~practices, and the development by the community of a participatory animal welfare needs … Sustainable animal welfare: community-led action for improving care and …
Publication, 01 September 2013
IIED founder Barbara Ward, who would have been 100 on 23 May, set out the case for a fairer, more just world system
A vision of our world that is sustainable, fairer and realisable: memories of Barbara Ward
… all her books, there was such depth in understanding the politics of development and of history, in how we got to where we are now. And in … “The Cost of Justice” sets out goals that pre-figure the Millennium Development Goals – for food and nutrition, rural and urban water and … The birth of IIED The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) was her way of institutionalising her key concerns, …
Insight, 27 May 2014
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… consequences – are mobilising to demand urgent and serious action. 2 Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue April:   Dilys Roe argued that development organisations need to get involved in efforts to tackle … of land use change in Africa – could also bring major innovations for sustainable development. 4 Women in the UN climate negotiations: are we …
Article, 27 December 2019