"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.
India Votes
- Little space for environment in Indian elections…
- ...but new political party integrates economy and ecology
Climate Policy
- Shell, Unilever and other corporates call for trillion tonne carbon cap
- Who's leading on climate action pledges? A calculator reveals all
- Costa Rica is 81 per cent of the way to its carbon neutrality goal for 2021
- World 'needs Plan B' on climate — IPCC report
- Chinese business deals weaken Latin American climate policy
Adaptation to Climate Change
- Has climate change adaptation lost its way?
- Philippine scientists and farmers divided about how to adapt to climate change
- Chinese NGOs call for 13th Five-Year Plan to include climate adaptation
In the Cities
- Questions raised over reliability of statistical data in UN-Habitat's State of African Cities report
- Know Your City: Slum/Shack Dwellers International discuss community-collected data at World Urban Forum 7
- Three ways cities can achieve sustainability
From the Forests
- Indonesian 'legal' timber scheme could be greenwashing illegal products, NGOs warn
- Surge in Chinese demand exposes cracks in Mozambique forest policy
- Nearly 90 per cent of logging in the DRC is illegal
- Emissions from selective rainforest logging average 16 per cent of those from clear-felling
- Local communities key to saving forests
Food and Farming
- China's declining crop diversity threatens its food sovereignty
- It's time for Africa's green revolution, focused on corn
- A new face for palm oil? How a small co-op is changing the industry in Honduras
- Kenya's pastoralists show their green thumbs
Land Ahoy!
- In Kenya, every piece of land is a likely conflict
- World Bank accused of facilitating land grab in developing countries
Energy and Extractives
- Vaclav Smil: There is no global energy solution, only local ones
- Mining company sues El Salvador for US$300 million. Civil society groups claim 'assault on democratic governance'
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
Deep Declines
- God's Ivory: A short film about the role of religion in the decline of elephants
- Should we close the high seas to fishing?
Telling Stories
- Happy 10th birthday to the Internews' Earth Journalism Network
- Researchers have to consider communication as part of our basic responsibilities, says Max Boykoff
Sustaining Development
- Janez Potocnik: New environmentalism and the circular economy
- Free excerpt: State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability
- Review faults DFID's approach to research evidence
- Latin America, the most unequal region in the world
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.