Water is a hugely strategic resource for most companies and its increasing scarcity creates significant business risk.

Extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate risks increasingly affecting the lives of urban residents in cities across the ...

In low- and middle-income countries looking to harness their mineral wealth for industrial development, Indonesia's nickel ...

In rural Africa, ‘water poverty’ can destroy lives and livelihoods. Children under the age of five are especially susceptible to waterborne diseases. While a broken waterpipe in London may be a ...

As a globally recognised force for climate and social justice, IIED has been building a fairer, more sustainable world for more than 50 years. But it’s time for a fresh take on sustainability as it ...

Sapphires from the island of Madagascar, ranked among Earth's top ten most ecologically diverse countries, wow the world's top traders and jewellers. The nation is one of the world's biggest sapphire ...

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David Satterthwaite is a senior associate with IIED and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. Two recent books co-authored with Diana Mitlin were Urban ...

This is one of three insights describing where a ‘living heritage’ approach has been applied, writes IIED senior associate David Satterthwaite. The following describes the response to the devastating ...

There is growing recognition that local organisations, people and communities need to lead or be meaningfully involved in the response to the climate, biodiversity and poverty crisis. The Least ...

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 ...

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 ...