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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on the action needed to accelerate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Research highlights the importance of local knowledge, and the power of grassroots organisations and local governments, in creating positive action towards the goals.

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The Independent Expert Group has produced a series of publications (Image: IIED)

The work of the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group

Article, 07 August 2015

The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (Image: IIED)

Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group

Article, 03 August 2015

The Mercato in Addis Ababa is Africa's largest market. This month there was another major gathering in Addis Ababa as thousands of politicians, policymakers and civil society leaders came together for the third Financing for Development summit (Photo: alvise forcellini, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Why universality is a taxing agenda…

Insight, 20 July 2015

How can decentralised finance drive sustainable development? A new interactive story produced by IIED's Human Settlements Group highlights successful examples from the global South (Image: Kiln/IIED)

It's the thought that counts: how can Addis deliver for the world’s poorest?

Insight, 08 July 2015

A satellite phone provided by Télécoms Sans Frontières, with European Commission funding, enables a man from Tanna island to finally talk to loved ones ten days after communications were cut off by Cyclone Pam in March 2015 (Photo: TSF, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Finance, Addis and the Sustainable Development Goals

News, 07 July 2015

Delegates at the 20th Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting integrate poverty and environmental issues into the global agenda in Edinburgh in late May (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Putting ourselves out of business – forward planning for the PEP

Insight, 29 June 2015

A women carries supplies through a flooded street in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, after thousands were displaced following floods in 2014. Studies have shown that, when they are socially or economically disadvantaged, more women die in hurricanes and floods (Photo: United Nations Photo, Creative Comms via Flickr)

Will climate change render the SDGs impossible?

Insight, 19 June 2015

2015 is a critical year for sustainable development: IIED is tracking the route to Paris and COP21 in December (Image: IIED)

Walking along the road to Paris

Insight, 15 June 2015

Campaigners celebrate the UK becoming the first G7 country to enshrine in law the UN-agreed target of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on oversea aid (Photo: UNA-UK via Google licence)

Cameron can assure a lasting legacy

Insight, 07 June 2015

IIED's animation explains what the Sustainable Development Goals are and highlights why they matter (Image: IIED/Hands Up)

Animating the universal ambition of the SDGs

Article, 03 June 2015

Should public money from Europe used to build wind farms, such as this one in Mulan, around 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang, China, constitute official development assistance? (Photo: Land Rover Our Planet, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions

Insight, 01 June 2015

The Poverty-Environment Initiative is celebrating its 10th anniversary at a meeting with partners in Edinburgh, Scotland (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Taking an integrated approach to eliminating poverty and sustaining natural resources

Insight, 28 May 2015

10 Downing St. creative commons, MOD

IIED responds to UK election outcome

News, 08 May 2015

Deforestation in Bhutan: forests are a prime example of how an integrated approach to policymaking can prevent benefits in one area undermining wellbeing elsewhere (Photo: Curt Carnemark/World Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?

Insight, 01 May 2015

Saleemul Huq, left, discusses 2015's big issues with negotiators and ambassadors from the Least Developed Countries in New York in early April (Photo: Claire Hatfield/IIED)

2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries

Insight, 17 April 2015

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

Insight, 24 March 2015

Public protests against new dams in Patagonia. RIMISP's study shows the need for public consultation on major infrastructure projects (Photo: Glenn Switkes/International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Learning the lessons from Chile's energy transformation

Insight, 23 March 2015

The United Nations headquarters in New York City (Photo: Wally Goetz, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The right to sustainable development: what the post-2015 agenda declaration should say – but won't

Insight, 18 February 2015

Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda

Insight, 28 January 2015

The Swiss ski resort of Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum (Photo: swiss-image.ch/Michael Buholzer, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The glass is half full: in 2015 we need to demand that our leaders deliver

Insight, 21 January 2015

Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)

Insight, 16 January 2015

Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)

Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?

Insight, 15 December 2014

A view of the Houses of Parliament, home of the Environmental Audit Committee which has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals (Photo: Skeeze, via pixabay)

SDGs 'not just for overseas'

News, 15 December 2014

IIED director Camilla Toulmin enjoys the 12th D&C Days event at COP20 in Lima, Peru (Photo; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)

Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change

Insight, 11 December 2014

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