Hot Topics
IDS is engaged in research and influencing on a wide range of themes. At any one time, some topics are of particular interest. The following hot topics pull together IDS research, knowledge and opinion that is shaping current thinking on key development issues high on today’s development agenda.
UN Climate Change Conference – COP18
The world’s climate is changing. Higher temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, and increasingly extreme weather will affect everyone. However, poor people living in the global south have been, and will be, hit hardest.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Post 2015 Agenda
Working to help inform and shape the policy debate on what comes after the MDGs in 2015.
Nutrition
Working with partners worldwide to ensure sustained progress towards eradicating global malnutrition.