News Release: Principles intended to encourage socially and environmentally responsible investments generally fail to do so, according to the first comprehensive review of their use — published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development. A growing number of investors have signed up to such principles for various reasons, from improving reputation to minimising […]
News Release The International Institute for Environment and Development urges the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to do more to protect farmers’ customary rights over biological resources. IIED has made the call in a paper submitted to the conference of the treaty’s governing body, which is underway in Bali (from 14-18 March) […]
News Release A key water resource that will grow in importance as climate change takes hold is currently going largely unmeasured — with big implications for poor communities in developing nations, says research published today (15 November 2010). The International Institute for Environment and Development’s study shows that hundreds of millions of urban people in […]
Press Release Climate-vulnerable developing nations could use international law to break the current deadlock in the intergovernmental negotiations on climate change by taking industrialised nations to court, says a paper published today (4 October) by the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD). The publication comes as government officials from around the world gather […]
Experts have called for a UN-based system to define baselines and monitor pledges and payments made by industrialized countries to help poor nations tackle climate change. In a briefing paper published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), key academics in climate change warned that the industrialized world’s promise of billions of “new […]