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How Improved Housing in Under-served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

  • housing
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity
A row of housing in Iloilo City, Phillippines.
  • housing
  • Cities
  • climate change
  • Climate
  • Climate Equity

To Fix City Slums, Don't Just Knock Them Down: Involve Residents in Upgrading Efforts

  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
View of one of the many informal settlements the city of Surabaya, Indonesia has upgraded since the 1960s with input and participation from residents. Photo by Peter Edelman.
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
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Can Housing Be Affordable Without Being Efficient?

  • Buildings
  • housing
Minha Casa, Minha Vida affordable housing project in Brazil
  • Buildings
  • housing
Insights

The Crisis in Affordable Housing Is a Problem for Cities Everywhere

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
Affordable housing for all.
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
Insights
Bridge across creek in Kibera, Nairobi.
  • housing
  • development
  • Equity & Governance
  • housing
  • Equity & Governance

Confronting the Urban Housing Gap

  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • Equity & Governance
  • Urban Development
Informal housing in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • Equity & Governance
  • Urban Development
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What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.

  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Food worth $750 billion is lost or wasted every year. Photo by Garry Knight/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • Food
  • Food Loss and Waste
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals

Sustainable Development Goals: Setting a New Course for People and Planet

  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The unveiling of the Sustainable Development Goals next week will be a milestone moment for our collective future. Photo by US Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome/Flickr
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
  • Equity & Governance
  • Finance
  • climate change
  • development
  • human rights
  • climate science
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Why Community Land Rights Belong in the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals leave out a critical component of improving rural livelihoods—securing community land rights. Photo credit: Jane Boles, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • International Climate Action
  • land rights
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality

5 Big Energy Stories of 2013

  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
President Barack Obama at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center (Photo Credit: Wikipedia)
  • Equity & Governance
  • climate change
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

4 Issues to Watch: Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations