Applying a ‘whole-of-society’ approach to data will ensure that the knowledge contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local ...

IIED researchers and partners will be attending the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Seville, Spain.

At the end of February, the 16th Conference of Parties on the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) reconvened in Rome ...

Rather than looking separately at urban and rural areas and what matters to each of them, it is vital to look at the linkages between them: it is from here that lasting change will come. Ejura Market ...

Women play a critical role in climate adaptation and resilience-building, yet financial mechanisms remain largely ...

The resumed meeting of the parties to the COP16 Global Biodiversity Conference was held between 25 and 27 February 2025 in Rome, Italy to address agenda items left unresolved. Various agreements on ...

Governments and businesses in the developing world can help protect people's jobs and livelihoods from the damaging effects of automation and rapid technological change. This can be done by refocusing ...

With the global boom in critical mineral and metal mining, there is an urgent need to increase investment in tackling the sector’s complex social and human rights impacts — including the risk of ...

IIED's Human Settlements programme works through partnerships to create towns and cities that are sustainable, prosperous, resilient, healthy and safe, and inclusive and equitable. We do this by ...

Special economic zones (SEZs) have spread rapidly over the past 20 years, including in many low- and middle-income countries keen to attract private investment for industrial development. But while ...

The case studies reveal that existing mobilisation processes in informal settlements – often led by the collective efforts of the residents and their local partners – hold many of the keys to making ...