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Urban air pollution and children in low- and middle- income countries
… many cases, these actions can contribute to achieving multiple other sustainable development goals, including climate change mitigation. An integrated …
Publication, 01 September 2021
Informal housing and tall buildings behind.
Definitions matter – part one
… This matters because progress towards many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is strongly influenced by these definitions and … government. Comparisons are often made between countries’ or regions’ urbanisation levels – the percentage of the population living in urban …
Insight, 10 November 2021
Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)
Facing an increasingly urban world
… possible reason is the timing. The new global goal framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)  and the breakthrough global legal treaty on … will not achieve sustainable development without sustainable urbanisation. We will not achieve social inclusion without inclusive …
Insight, 13 May 2016
Woman silhouetted in front of gas flare
SUNGAS: Ensuring sustainable energy access in Nigeria
… undermines its ability to reduce poverty and support socio-economic development.  The SUNGAS (Sustainable Utilisation of Nigeria’s Gas and Renewable Energy Resources) … development of natural gas and renewable energy markets, as well as sustainable community-based energy facilities, in some of the poorest …
Project, 20 October 2020
A daily savings book: local savings groups collect small payments from slum dwellers which can be leveraged to support slum upgrading projects (Photo: SDI, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Transforming aid for urban areas
… are most urban governments. Nor are the global agendas, including the Sustainable Development Goals. Provision for water and sanitation is actually … Urbanization on Finance for community-led local, city and national development . …
Insight, 04 September 2018
A motorbike rides through a flooded road. A woman tries to cross the road from the left hand side pavement.
IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities
… affected, to developing effective pathways for climate-resilient development. The authors state that “…the global trend of urbanisation also offers a critical opportunity in the near term, to advance climate-resilient development.” This is because physical, social and ecological …
Insight, 09 March 2022
David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements research group, addresses the conference on urban crises (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)
Urban crises conference: time to put learning into practice
News, 23 November 2017
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Transforming a ‘New Urban Agenda’ into a just urban agenda
… Habitat III — the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development — will take place in October in a new global context. … III to make more real transformative commitments in pursuit of a sustainable and just urban future than its predecessors. But if it is to …
Publication, 01 July 2016
IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
… The final text of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Transforming our world , was released on 11 … are an important milestone on a four-decade journey in the cause of sustainable development. Far more than any previous international … Global goals for sustainable development …
Insight, 02 September 2015
Like many East African cities, Rwanda's capital Kigali faces the challenges of rapid growth and insufficient infrastructure (Photo: Kigali Wire, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why low-carbon urban development in African cities makes economic sense
… Bujumbura and Juba remain extremely violent places. The pace of urbanisation and high incidence of poverty pose a serious challenge for … waste management. This work shows that East Africa can pursue more sustainable patterns of urban development without sacrificing economic growth. The economic case for …
Insight, 01 April 2016