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Villagers in India dig out a silted-up water tank as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (Photo: McKay Savage, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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2019 – the way forward is a Green Decent Work Guarantee

The front cover of the book ‘Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind: Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies’

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Book summary: Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind – Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies

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)

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Transforming aid for urban areas

A carpenter bee

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Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal

The UN poster showing all 17 sustainable development goals (Image: UN photo)

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development

September 2015: on the eve of the United Nations summit to agree the 2030 Agenda, a film introducing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto the UN headquarters building (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

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Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals

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Reimagining the climate finance system with digital technology

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Bosques saludables para fortalecer la resiliencia al cambio climático en Chile

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Proposed solutions for inclusive shelter in Hawassa

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Getting food on the table in cities

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Meeting the enhanced transparency framework: what next for the LDCs?

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Evaluating sustainable development: how the 2030 Agenda can help

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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

Blog, Sep 2018

The front cover of the book ‘Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind: Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies’

Book summary: Climate Action with Tomorrow in Mind – Expert Perspectives on Long-term Climate and Development Strategies

Article, Aug 2018

More than 250 participants shared their experiences and examples of good practice at CBA12 (Photo: Teresa Corcoran/IIED)

How can insights from CBA12 inform global discussions on the SDGs and resilience?

Blog, Jul 2018

In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households

Blog, Jun 2018

There is often very little data available about people living in informal settlements such as these along the riverfront in Ahmedabad in India (Photo: Emmanuel Dyan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is urban development too complicated for us?

Blog, May 2018

Ministerial-level consultations on the Myanmar National Climate Policy, Nay Pyi Taw (Photo: Achala Abeysinghe/IIED)

Developing Myanmar’s national climate change policy

Project, Apr 2018

Cecilia Silva and Carla Silva Pompilio from Angola, browsing through ‘Becoming a UNFCCC delegate’, Marrakech, November 2017 (Photo: Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Building the capacity of LDCs to engage in the UNFCCC negotiations

Project, Mar 2018

UNFCCC negotiations session, Bonn, May 2017 (Photo Janna Tenzing/IIED)

Facilitating greater representation of LDCs in the UNFCCC process

Project, Mar 2018

The Earth is reflected in a drop of water on a leaf (Photo: Juan Horna, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Changing landscapes: key issues for action on sustainable development in 2018

Blog, Jan 2018

Nazhat Shameem Khan, Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and chief COP23 negotiator, addresses the LDC Group and chair Gebru Jember Endalew. IIED principal researcher Achala Abeysinghe, who provides legal support to the LDC Group chair, is pictured right (Photo: Collin Beck)

LDCs approach Fiji COP with high expectations

Blog, Nov 2017

September 2015: on the eve of the United Nations summit to agree the 2030 Agenda, a film introducing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is projected onto the UN headquarters building (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak)

Effective evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals

Project, Oct 2017

IIED aims to contribute to the achievement of change which benefits poor people and the environment. The institute's strategy for the next two years has been published (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)

Engaging for change – refreshing our strategy for the next two years

Blog, Aug 2017