"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.
From the forests
- Asia-Pacific countries failing to stop forest loss, UN warns
- Five controversial questions: Community monitoring for REDD+
- Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption
- Progressive palm oil group opens door to companies adopting zero deforestation policies.
Changing climate
- Study reveals shifting discourses of climate change in India
- Venezuela's 2014 climate summit faces credibility crisis
- Why don't Bloomberg/Branson/Grantham buy out US coal for US$50bn?
- The New Climate Economy launched in Addis Ababa
- Why exactly are the UN climate talks the toughest negotiations on the planet?
Food and farming
- Food system that fails poor countries needs urgent reform, says UN expert
- IFPRI's new Global Food Policy Report is out
- Colombia: Where cows, crops and timber coexist.
In the cities
- Ecology rights and city development plans: the case of Mumbai
- Indian cities face 'huge' risks without climate planning
- Planting forests across Beijing could help combat pollution
- Video: In conversation with Susan Parnell, co-editor of Africa's Urban Revolution.
Energy and extractives
- Mega-dams economically unviable— Oxford report
- Oil companies and Kenyan civil society groups debate the future
- Technology can help improve grievance management in the extractives sector
- Great feature on energy access and what it costs.
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.
