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Post-2015 agenda
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IIED's work on the post-2015 agenda
It took three years of international negotiations to agree the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the agenda for 2030. The scope and ambition of the SDGs resonate with IIED's work for a fairer and greener world
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Q&A: A shift in mindset for the LDCs
The Least Developed Countries need a new way of thinking if they are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, says Saleemul Huq
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Q&A: Linking low-carbon pathways with the SDGs
Youba Sokona discusses the challenges and opportunities around low-carbon development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Q&A: Making the SDG agenda work for LDCs
Farah Kabir discusses how the Least Developed Countries have been driving their own sustainable development, and outlines what's needed for these vulnerable countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Reimagining development in the LDCs: what role for the SDGs?
The challenges and opportunities that the Sustainable Development Goals create for Least Developed Countries were discussed at an event in London in June
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): IIED and the new global agenda on sustainable development
In September 2015, the global community agreed the Sustainable Development Goals, setting out new development priorities for all countries, post-2015. The 17 new goals have been designed to integrate global ambitions on tackling poverty, reducing inequality, combating climate change, and protecting ecosystems including oceans, forests and biodiversity. It is an ambitious and universal agenda.
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The SDGs must carry us beyond Paris to 2030
The Sustainable Development Goals, to be agreed in New York later this month, are a key step on the road to a climate agreement in Paris in December, but must set the agenda for resilient low carbon development beyond Paris to 2030
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The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
If the world delivers on the Sustainable Development Goals, will IIED be out of a job? The SDGs may have a lot to say about what needs to be achieved but not about how, by whom and with what funding and support. There is hardly any mention of local government and local civil society. But you cannot meet the commitments listed above or indeed most of the other goals and targets in urban areas without their support.
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Understanding the SDGs: the importance of Goal 14
Conserving our oceans and marine resources is critical to an integrated approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, argues Essam Yassin Mohammed
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Global goals for sustainable development
The final text of the Sustainable Development Goals marks an important advance for the international development community, but enormous challenges still lie ahead
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The work of the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
Since its creation in 2013, the Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group (IEG) has provided an independent voice for sustainable development of LDCs, contributing ideas, expertise and challenges to international debates
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Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group
The Least Developed Countries Independent Expert Group is an informal group of individuals with a deep commitment to sustainable development and an understanding of the challenges to achieving it in the world's poorest countries
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Finance, Addis and the Sustainable Development Goals
Ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, some of the world's Least Developed Countries have been sharing their priorities
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Will climate change render the SDGs impossible?
Later this year, countries will be meeting at a UN Summit in New York to agree on a set of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will build on the Millennium Development Goals
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Integration: will the UN Forum on Forests lead the way?
Ahead of the UN Forum on Forests meeting in New York, IIED’s Jonathan Reeves argues that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals – particularly for forests – depends upon integration and compromise and asks whether the political will exists to lay aside egos and break down institutional barriers
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2015: a critical year for the Least Developed Countries
As four major strands of global decision-making come together in 2015, IIED senior fellow Saleemul Huq explains why they are so important for the world's least developed countries
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Securing indigenous and community land rights in the future we want
Explicit inclusion of secure land rights for local communities and indigenous peoples is key to "leaving no one behind" in global Sustainable Development Goals, writes Jenny Springer of Rights and Resources Initiative
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IIED's new director takes on the post-2015 agenda
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) today announced the appointment of Dr Andrew Norton as director, replacing outgoing director Dr Camilla Toulmin at the end of June
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Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
After climate negotiations drew to a close in Lima, Jonathan Reeves reflects on the UN Secretary General's synthesis report on the post-2015 agenda and asks whether the "road to dignity" will take us to the right destination.
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SDGs 'not just for overseas'
In its latest report, the UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee has warned that the government risks undermining new global development goals, following evidence that the UK has been seeking to limit their scope and ambition
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D&C Days in Lima to highlight 'historic opportunity' to reduce poverty and emissions to zero (#zerozero)
Extreme poverty and the impacts of climate change can be overcome by far-sighted, joined-up action on both at once, the Development and Climate Days event at UN climate talks in Peru will hear
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Have your say: Join the discussion on enabling forest landscapes to score Sustainable Development Goals
IIED will co-host a discussion at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, on Saturday on how forest landscapes can score Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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The IPCC and an urbanising planet
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment gets the importance of understanding and acting on urbanisation
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Look beyond the trees: the SDGs will have to do more than just 'protect forests'
A UN working group has drafted targets to succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which will expire next year. IIED's assessment finds a strong set of targets, but also trade-offs and missing issues
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Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
IIED director Camilla Toulmin writes about her decision to step down after ten years, and outlines how the institute will search for her successor
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Q&A: Helping the poorest nations with development goals
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) want their voices heard at climate and development talks. They will need a range of support to build their capacity to meet their development goals
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Well-financed climate change action must be central to the post-2015 goals
Climate change and sustainable development are inextricably linked. It is critical, therefore, that the post-2015 sustainable development agenda fully embeds climate change
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LDC experts to share ideas on building productive capacity
How can Least Developed Countries (LDCs) progress so they are no longer held back by extreme poverty? A conference next week in Cotonou, Benin, will address this issue, bringing together ministers and experts from LDCs, along with UN representatives and development experts.
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The Musketeers of development
Does the zero draft of the Sustainable Development Goals take enough note of the crucial interdependencies between goal areas?
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Can we change the goals of development without changing the implementers?
The latest draft of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets contains a stunning list of commitments, but fails to address how we will achieve them.
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If we don't count the poor, the poor don't count
Research in several countries shows how governments and development agencies undercount the scale and depth of urban poverty
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Integrating forests into the post-2015 development framework
This IIED project aimed to install forest-related targets and indicators into the post-2015 development framework, contributing towards notional goal areas on poverty reduction and equality, economic growth and employment, food security, water and energy, climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity
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Making gender equality a global and local reality
The UNFCCC has taken significant steps to promote women's increased participation in the global climate change negotiations process. It's a gain for gender equality, but gaps remain
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Wanted: Urban data revolution for post 2015 sustainable development goals
Around a billion people live in informal urban settlements that lack essential services and security, so the concerns of these people should be high on the agenda when agreeing a new set of sustainable development goals
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Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
In late February, discussions over the post-2015 development agenda reached a milestone. The co-Chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG), the body tasked with preparing a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposal for consideration by the UN General Assembly in September 2014, issued a "Focus Areas Document".
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Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
Climate change, health and urban resilience are all connected, and this means research and policy in these arenas must join up
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Media missing from UN drive to engage millions on post-2015 development agenda
Rosebell Kagumire says consultations on the future of global development framework should involve journalists or they will fail to reach the masses.
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Post-2015 development framework: priorities for LDCs – coverage from Wilton Park
From January 29-31, Wilton Park hosted a conference enabling frank and open dialogue between those in the political process of setting 'sustainable development goals' and those in least developed countries (LDCs) who will need to implement the goals.
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Ten ways to ensure there are plenty more fish in the sea
Sustainable fisheries must be central to the new global development goals that all nations will pursue from 2015, says Essam Yassin Mohammed.
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Conference to refocus post-2015 development agenda on poorest nations' priorities
New 'sustainable development goals' for all nations to adopt in 2015 could deepen problems in the least developed countries (LDCs) if they fail to take account of these nations' priorities and the international nature of challenges they face.
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Time to hear LDC voices on Post-2015 development goals
The post-2015 development agenda will most profoundly affect the least developed countries (LDCs), so it's essential that people in these countries have a greater say in what the goals look like.
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World’s poorest nations can set international agenda for sustainable development
The least developed countries (LDCs) can play a critical role in ensuring that the new global sustainability goals – which the international community aims to have in place by 2015 — are both fair and effective.
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Future world: addressing the contradictions of planet, people, power and profits
Our new paper on global trends aims to provoke debate as part of the process of developing IIED’s new five-year strategy. Read it and tell us what you think.
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New international development goals: score or miss?
The UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel has published their set of recommendations for international development. What is the verdict? How do they ‘score’?
