Bringing business into the conversation on sustainable development
IIED's new blog series looks at how businesses and investors are increasingly connecting with the sustainable development agenda. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by business and investors as they start to look at delivering positive social and environmental impacts alongside financial returns.
The series is part of IIED's work to promote new ways of working and new alliances in order to address global development and environmental challenges. Read the news story for more information and links to the newest blogs.
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Blog by Rosalind Goodrich
Information value chains – from data to research communication
What’s needed to sustain the flow of information from field data to policy communication? Rosalind Goodrich reports from a meeting that considered how to get biodiversity information to the heart of government decision-making.
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"Every policy process should be able to access biodiversity information and use it to consider the implications of a decision on the environment, as well as on people and the economy."
– Rosalind Goodrich, IIED Head of research communications
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Make Change Happen podcast
Latest IIED podcast puts the focus on energy access
The second episode of IIED's ‘Make Change Happen’ podcast, Delivering energy access for all' highlights the importance of energy access as a driver for sustainable development.
Listen to the podcast now on your favourite podcast app
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D&C Days has moved to Madrid!
Join us for the 17th Development & Climate Days at COP25
D&C Days 2019 will take place on Sunday, 8 December 2019 in Madrid during the middle weekend of this year's UN climate change talks. The event was switched to Spain's capital following Chile's decision to pull out of hosting the climate talks in Santiago.
Find out more and register to attend
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Guest blog by Olivia Wilson-Holt
Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
To effectively fight poaching and illegal wildlife trade, governments, NGOs and their partners across Latin America must listen to, engage with and provide incentives for the communities that live alongside wildlife.
Read the blog with a report from a recent community voices event
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Blog by Barry Smith
Towards better assessment of adaptation results
How can countries align their climate adaptation assessment mechanisms with other frameworks? Barry Smith highlights opportunities for achieving effective adaptation monitoring and evaluation.
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Backgrounder, 2 pages
The critical role of science in guiding UN climate negotiations
The role of scientists in informing and guiding the UN climate change negotiations is critically important and the most recent report on holding global temperature rise to 1.5°C received a particularly contentious response within the UN decision-making body. In the face of an escalating climate crisis, governments must use the best available science to take rapid and proportionate action.
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Insights, 4 pages
Accelerating energy access with aggregation
‘Decentralised energy systems’ complement grid extension, but need public and private investment of over US$20 billion annually to meet the ambition of the SDGs. Looking to 2030, IIED has identified aggregation as a promising accelerant to energy access, one that should interest impact investors, institutional financiers, foundations and others.
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We're hiring
Work for us
Apply by 27 November for the programme manager role in our to our Climate Change research group, to provide overall managerial support to the development and smooth running of the public policy and drylands team and partner organisations.
We're also seeking an assistant coordinator to provide administrative, logistics, finance support and general coordination for both our Human Settlements and Shaping Sustainable Markets research groups. Apply by 24 November.
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