The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) held its 30th Anniversary Conference from 12-13 November 2001 in London, UK.

The Anniversary Conference was comprised of a one-day workshop followed by a one-day conference, and was held in collaboration with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Canadian International Development Agency, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sweden’s International Development Cooperation Agency. On Monday, 12 November, the International Workshop, hosted by the Canadian High Commission, outlined issues, presented themes and generated discussion. The conclusions of the workshop were presented to the International Conference, which was convened on Tuesday, 13 November and hosted by the Trade Union Congress. More than 450 participants attended the workshop and conference, including representatives of governments, NGOs, multilateral organizations, academia and the private sector.
Carrying a theme of “Equity for a Small Planet,” the purpose of this event was to convene an International Forum that would consider the dynamic interactions between the processes of globalization and efforts to protect local livelihoods, with an emphasis on perspectives from the South, and to clarify many of the critical issues and emerging priorities to be forwarded for consideration at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg. The outputs of the conference consisted of a series of opinion papers that would provide input to the WSSD. The Sustainable Developments report outlining these discussions in detail can be found at: http://enb.iisd.org/crs/SDEQU/index.html