"In Our World" relates to IIED's world of environment and development. It connects us with what's going on in both the real world and online worlds.
Changing climate
- Danish pension funds invest in climate fund to support adaptation and mitigation in poorer nations.
- Tropical cyclones hitting east Asia have grown increasingly fierce in the past 30 years.
- Five things China can do to move towards a post-carbon world.
- Professor calls for law to punish leaders who fail to protect citizens from climate change.
Sustaining development
- Ten broad brushstrokes about development cooperation, by Owen Barder.
- European donors 'profiting from aid budgets' with high-interest loans.
- Is development research running in the wrong direction?
- Scanning the horizon for future environmental challenges.
- 10 things to know about Africa in 2014 – by Jonathan Bhalla.
Conserving nature
- Biodiversity panel gives indigenous knowledge core role.
- Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment
- Preserving nature isn't about aesthetics, it's about necessity – says Jon Foley.
Solving problems
- Great invention: Water, wheels and women.
- Top companies talk transparency trends.
- Mining contracts– five tipsfor governments and the rest of us.
- Green investment in Asian cities to reduce natural disaster risks
From the forests
- Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests.
- Lost microbeslimit Amazon's ability to capture carbon
- Land conflicts complicate effort to spare forestsfrom palm oil in Borneo
- Next big idea in forest conservation? Integrating forest conservation, use, and restoration.
Focus on Migration
- Moving Stories report: The voices of people who move due to environmental change.
- How best to rebuild after disaster.
- Jaspreet Kindra reports on planned relocation and climate change.
Mike Shanahan is IIED's press officer.
In Our World is a blog series. Each week it will publish links to top content about environment and development that we have seen online in the past week. You can subscribe by email here or via the RSS feed using this link.