"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.
In the cities
- Making the urban poor safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Mumbai
- Putting an urban dimension in post-2015 development agenda
- The Guardian launches a new 'cities' site… Tom Slater provides a searing critique
Changing climate
- Danish newspaper reveals US spied on other nations during COP15 climate talks (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). The Guardian gathers some reactions
- Obama calls for climate urgency in State of the Union Address. Union of Concerned Scientists sees the "good, the not-so-good, and the missing"
- At Davos, new hope that business can drive radical emissions cuts
- 17 foundations with US$1.8 billion in investments commit to divest from fossil fuel sector
- That democracy will lead to effective action on climate should not be assumed
From the forests
- 'Narco-deforestation' rife in Central America. Researchers in Science link drug policy to conservation
- Reforestation in southwest China: success or failure?
- Through careful management, indigenous people shaped Asian rainforests for 11,000 years
Down the mine
- DRC mining billionaire turns 29,900 per cent profit on oil deal
- Big dig: How to hold miners – and the governments they work with – accountable
- Four tough issues to address to beat the "resource curse"
- International sustainable mining institute launched
Sustainable business
- The case for the circular economy – in one graph
- Circular economy offers business transformation and US$1 trillion of savings
- GreenBiz.com publishes annual "State of Green Business" report
Natural resources
- Corporations trump citizens in struggle for natural resources in Africa – report
- China's future will be defined by resource constraints, says Damien Ma
- Ekuatorial— new project combines maps and journalism about Indonesia's natural resources. Willie Shubert explains what this kind of geojournalism can do.
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.