"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
- Palm oil's climate impact worse than thought due to methane emissions
- Green Climate Fund aims to allocate half of money for adaptation
- 4 ways the Green Climate Fund can make its investments count
- Report hails international progress on climate change laws– nearly 500 so far
- 10 things not to do with climate aid
In the cities
- More than 140 Brazilian cities are rationing water – is epic drought a taste of the future?
- Urban Revolution? – video and more on how conflict and population growth affect Africa's urban space
- Buenos Aires tries to design for biodiversity
From the forests and the farms
- 10 challenges and lessons for donors funding REDD+ as performance-based aid
- A remarkable tree, a contested study, and tough choices ahead
- GMOs, silver bullets and the trap of reductionist thinking
Energy and extractives
- EU Parliament calls for tough, binding EU rules to root out conflict minerals
- Confidential papers raise fears over conflict gold
- Secret oil deals with Swiss companies cost Nigeria billions of dollars
To protect and conserve
- John Kerry calls for ten per cent expansion of world's marine reserves
- If Indonesia can't protect its orangutans, why doesn't it just 'sell' them?
- Will destroying ivory provoke more poaching?
Where's the leader?
- Nitin Sethi exposes Indian Prime Minister's office for diluting or overriding environmental law
- New corruption questions over role of Sarawak Chief Minister and son in waste deal
Sustaining Development
- What does a sustainable future actually look like?
- Remittances make foreign aid look like a paltry sum
- UN puts its weight behind human migration research
- Make love not war: bringing research rigour and context together
- China's toxic air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists
- Poor losing out in African boom, according to new report
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.