"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.
Life on the Line
- Nearly 1000 environmentalists murdered in past decade. Only one per cent of killers convicted
- Botswana bushmen petition Prince Charles over ban on hunting wildlife
Changing Climate
- Mexico's climate change law — more than just empty words?
- UN releases 'multiple choice' of options for 2015 climate deal
- Climate Change: We are not all in this together
- The beef with beef: 12 ways to drastically cut agricultural emissions
- Communication is the plank that can connect adaptation and mitigation
From the Forests
- What drives deforestation and what stops it? A review of 117 studies from 1996-2013
- Cameroon guidelines seek to avert conflict over forest carbon scheme
- Sustainable logging policy in Peru's Amazon led to large-scale plundering
- 'Better late than never': Myanmar bans timber exports to save remaining forests
- Deforestation of Central America rises as Mexico's war on drugs moves south
Natural Capital
- Valuing natural capital: what next and why?
- Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world?
- Value placed on water delivery varies if environment at risk, study shows
- Rural 'environmental income' on par with crop income
Energy and Extractives
- US appeals court finds conflict-minerals rule violates free speech
- Ecuador will hold referendum on oil drilling in Yasuni National Park after activists collect miore than 700,000 signatures
- Transparency, good governance and natural resource management. Interview with chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Sustaining Development
- "Inclusive development" — newest buzzword or crucial outcome?
- Video: Awra Amba — an Ethiopian utopia?
- Zimbabwe's struggle to formalise the informal
- 30 countries pledge record US$4.43 billion to prevent global environmental degradation
- It's the end of the world as we know it, and he feels fine
- Doughnut Economics Video Club: four fab films on capitalism
In the Cities
- China's 'eco-cities': empty of hospitals, shopping centres and people
- Reinventing Dharavi: An international ideas competition.
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.