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1. Participation of non-state actors at intergovernmental United Nations (UN) meetings and summits on sustainable development has greatly increased over the years; 2. Modalities of participation have evolved to match the increased options for participation by nonstate actors, but the rapid change of scale and scope of sustainable development...

This briefing note, prepared by the Independent Research Forum on a Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (IRF2015), offers principles and approaches for integrating economic, social and environmental sustainability and equity in a new post-2015 development agenda. The paper is the first in a series that will examine how post-2015 goals and...

A new method was developed for mapping forest, agricultural, and urban land cover using remote sensing imagery. It is designed to better detect small land cover objects (e.g. small forest or agricultural patches) and monitor their change (e.g. fine-scale deforestation) using freely-available satellite imagery.