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Women learning how to install and maintain solar home systems in the rural town of Bogra, northern Bangladesh (Photo: ILO, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Five challenges for Least Developed Countries in the post-2015 era
… be fulfilled, hard work is needed. This hard work should benefit the poorest people in the world as well as those better off. At a debate last week on the Least … Developed Countries (LDCs) and the SDGs , organised by IIED, the ESRC's STEPS Centre and the Least Developed Countries Independent Experts …
Insight, 28 June 2016
Securing land rights for indigenous peoples, such as these members of the Xingu tribe, pictured in Brazil, is critical to alleviating poverty (Photo: Rights and Resources Initiative)
Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want
… Development Goals (SDGs) and targets for countries around the world to achieve by 2030, inspired by the ethos that the world must … foundation for reducing poverty and enhancing food security, women's rights and ecosystem conservation. However, a notable omission in the … indigenous peoples account for nearly 15 per cent of the world's poorest people (PDF) . This reality cannot be left unaddressed in the …
Insight, 24 March 2015
The president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Saber Chowdhury spoke to IIED at the UN climate summit (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)
Inter-Parliamentary Union and IIED say raising the climate ambition is critical
… with IPU president Saber Chowdhury above, or see it on  IIED's YouTube channel . The president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) … be sufficient scrutiny by the global public, by the citizens of the world and by businesses to understand whether sufficient action is being … would lead to the displacement of 30 million people who were the "poorest of the poor". That figure was based on today's population, he …
News, 21 November 2016
The COP23 venue in Bonn nears completion (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)
IIED and partner events at COP23
… in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November 2017. This page summarises IIED's activities during the two-week gathering. In addition to hosting and … to ensure that the battle against climate change focuses on the poorest countries, which are most at risk, and to ensure that the Paris … adaptation: a win–win formula for sustainability in a warming world? The local dimension of the NDCs: 100% renewable energy …
Event, 06 November 2017
A man points his finger at someone in a meeting room at a debate at a meeting on the sustainable development of the Amazon at Rio+20.
Five things we’ve learnt from Rio+20
… step into the gap. Twenty years on from the original Earth Summit it’s a major indictment of sustainability wonks and advocacy organisations … Rio +20 didn’t present sustainable development as the best means the world has to tackle economic volatility, social unrest and inequality, … reduction, equity and environmental stability in the interests of the poorest countries and people would constitute a major setback.   5. …
Insight, 03 July 2012
Men sitting on railway tracks with roosters. Sucat Railway Community, Manila, Philippines.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
… of creating a global partnership for change, as high-income nations must reform their domestic and international policies related to … are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty and improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. For … role in achieving real and lasting improvements in the lives of the poorest people as well as effective management of natural resources. And …
Project, 30 April 2008
COP22 side events
IIED and partner events at COP22
Event, 05 November 2016
European visa obstacles exclude many from UN climate talks
… Representatives of some of the world's poorest countries have been excluded from the UN climate change …
News, 11 December 2008
Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
… and China as development actors and opportunity bringers to the poorest nations? Not just aid but investment and trade More important … that middle income countries´ increasing economic interests in LDC´s is extending into aid and humanitarian assistance. China is now the … infrastructure projects, long since abandoned by the likes of the World Bank, bring the sustainable development benefits that LDC …
Insight, 30 March 2010
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
Article, 14 November 2008