Developed by the Climate and Development Ministerial (C&DM) secretariat with support from SouthSouthNorth (SSN), the ...

Global climate resilience is a matter of life and death. In forest landscapes, 1.3 billion smallholder farmers, communities and Indigenous Peoples must organise for climate resilience to survive. With ...

Global efforts to combat climate change will require a transition to renewable energy and government action to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. If followed through, such ...

A number of IIED’s videos during 2025 were recordings of events, both webinars and in-person seminars and conferences, but ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: copyright AFREWATCH) As a critical component ...

David Satterthwaite examines global trends in the size, growth and distribution of the world’s urban population. He also considers climate change and COVID-19. The transition to a predominantly urban ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Biodiversity policymakers negotiating the new international framework at the upcoming global biodiversity summit (CBD COP15) must ensure traditional knowledge and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and ...

Twenty years ago Costa Rica began to pioneer schemes that paid land owners to protect forests in return for the benefits they provide, such as conserving wild species, regulating river flows and ...

Children look upwards to a balloon that is part of a balloon mapping project A red balloon more than a metre in diameter rises above tin roofs in Mathare, one of Nairobi’s biggest informal settlements ...

Social protection and labour programmes can enable and encourage more sustainable and resilient livelihood practices, but they rarely respond to the needs of fishers and fish workers. IIED and the ...

IIED's news, insight, activities and more related to the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit Mangroves line India's Kaveri river. Mangrove forests can protect coastal areas from erosion, support ...