COMMITMENT WITHOUT FUNDING REPRESENTS UNFULFILLED GOOD INTENTIONS. IF NUTRITION-PROMOTING ACTIONS ARE TO BE IMPLEMENTED AND TARGETS MET, they need to be financed. Financing for nutrition comes from governments (domestic), from international sources—the bilateral and multilateral aid agencies and foundations that make up the “donor” community—and from people themselves.
ON JUNE 8, 2013, THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND BRAZIL, AND THE CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (CIFF) HOSTED A SUMMIT IN London titled “Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger through Business and Science” (known as N4G). The objective of the summit was to mark a “seminal declaration by leaders to scale up political commitment, increase resources, and take urgent action on nutrition” (United Kingdom 2013, 1).
The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) launched its Secondment Programme by welcoming its first two participants, from the Carbon Trust and ENDA Energie, to the CTCN Secretariat in Copenhagen.
This paper investigates how leases are evolving to become “greener” in the United Kingdom and Australia. The authors provide evidence from five varied sources including (1) UK office and retail leases, (2) retail sector energy management in the UK, (3) a major UK retailer case study, (4) office leasing in Sydney and (5) expert interviews on Australian retail leases. With some exceptions, the evidence reveals an increasing trend towards green leases in prime offices in both countries, but not in retail or sub-prime offices.
Business technology transfer strategy for the identification, selection, acquisition, adoption and assimilation of sustainable technologies, enabling them to better compete in the markets.
This report examines the worldwide market for energy efficiency and provides energy efficiency market snapshots that review important drivers and developments in selected international energy agency (iea) countries. It also provides profiles for case studies covering energy efficiency market investments in nine diverse jurisdictions, including Brazil, Massachusetts, Mexico, Paris, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Seoul, Tokyo and the United Kingdom.
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.
Australia, with the United Kingdom, led developed countries to deliver a roadmap to meeting the collective goal of mobilizing US$100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020. The roadmap aims to provide increased predictability and transparency about how the goal will be reached, and it sets out the range of actions developed countries will take to meet it.
The 2014 Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop was held at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton, UK on October 4 and 5 organized by IDS, REEEP and CDKN.
A small-scale approach to making wheels using a jig