"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
- Climate change is the fight of our lives – yet, says Naomi Klein, we can hardly bear to look at it
- Why do we pretend there is 'community'?
- Sweltering in the city: Surviving climate change in our great urban metropolises
- M.S. Swaminathan on managing the monsoon
- It's time to look beyond the UN's US$100bn climate finance target
- Asda: 95 per cent of our fresh produce is already at risk from climate change
From the Forests
- Could deforestation be a good thing?
- Illegal logging estimated to cost Indonesia more than US$1 billion a year in unpaid taxes
- Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies
- Tenure insecurity still biggest challenge for REDD+, global study finds
- Calls to legalise Tanzania's charcoal trade to save forests
- Of global private sector plantation investments, Latin America gets 83 per cent. Africa gets one per cent
Conservation
- 'New conservation' is an expansion of approaches, not an ethical orientation. Emma Marris responds to "The 'New Conservation's' Surrender to Development"
- Secrets of the global seed vault: Simran Sethi talks with Luigi Guarino of the Global Crop Diversity Trust
- Saudi Prince kills two per cent of global population of endangered bird
- 11,000 farming households and counting: Community based conservation in Nepal
Land and conflict
- Technology praised for assisting land tenure reform
- In a troubled African park, a battle over oil exploration
Sustaining Development
- Mary Hoff interviews Joseph Keefe on sustainable investing
- Time to take ownership of the Anthropocene
- Doughnut Economics Video Club: five films on planetary thinking
- Do not lose sight of resilience thinking in the pursuit of resilience metrics
In the Cities
- Cities in Conflict: the editor's pick
- Dompak eco-city: a tale of corruption
- Vision of the future or criminal eyesore: what should Rio do with its favelas?
Where's the leader?
- Here are the 2014 Goldman Prize winners
- Dangerous work: how one man empowered communities and stopped a coal mine.
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.