Outputs Seminar | 19 June 2012 13:30 - 15:00 GMT-03 The Rio+20 Conference is leading a new agenda around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), combining economic, social and environmental targets. Poor countries and the poorest people within them need growth and access to natural resources for human development... Round-table | 12 June 2012 14:30 - 16:30 GMT+00 The roundtable, hosted by Lord Boateng, former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa, will bring together UK stakeholders to discuss hopes and expectations ahead of the Summit, regarding... Articles and blogs | June 2012 | Holger Hoff, Charles Iceland, Johan Kuylenstierna and Dirk Willem te Velde This article explores the pressures on natural resources in a land shaped by climate change and growing demand for goods and services, such as food and energy. The article argues that the priority must be to address current water, energy, and food insecurity in... DownloadsResearch reports and studies | May 2012 | Dirk Willem te Velde (Overseas Development Institute) James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management) and Imme Scholz (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik) The third edition of the European Report on Development focuses on water, energy and land. It examines the constraints on each, the interrelationships between them and then considers how they can be managed together to promote growth in developing countries that is... DownloadResearch reports and studies | May 2012 | Detlef van Vuuren, Marcel Kok (eds) et al with Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott, Dirk Willem te Velde and Steve Wiggins (ODI) This report analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the interlinkages between them. DownloadsPublic event | 8 May 2012 13:00 - 14:30 GMT+01 (BST) This summer’s United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will centre on the ambition to create a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). However many questions remain unanswered about how these goals would work in practice... Working and discussion papers | May 2012 | Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott and Tom Mitchell Linking development and environmental objectives through policy initiatives is not an easy task. This Background Note sets out to explain why reconciling the two agendas has been so difficult at a practical level, and suggests how Rio+20 could start to bridge the gaps... DownloadsJournal articles or issues | April 2012 | Dirk Willem te Velde This paper argues that small and vulnerable economies have three interrelated reasons for an ambitious outcome at the Rio+20 conference and the most important but often overlooked reasons relate to trade. DownloadRio +20 will focus on pivotal environmental, economic and social issues for the future. ODI work will respond to the key debates taking place at this crucial conference.
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