IIED researchers and partners will be attending the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development from 30 June to ...

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

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

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 Europe was created to contribute to efforts to achieve major progress towards the goals of sustainable development. Registered in the Netherlands as a not-for-profit foundation in late 2020, its ...

Climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world. We work with policy and research partners to redress the balance by helping the poor in low and middle-income countries ...

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

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 ...

Exposed and exploited: addressing the climate migration modern slavery nexus in Bangladesh ...

We are working towards a new theory of change that will reflect IIED’s evolving approach to our work and will create the fast and large-scale positive changes we need to see. A theory of change ...

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 ...

Many rural communities in the global South – including some 370 million indigenous peoples – directly depend on biodiversity and related traditional knowledge for their livelihoods, food security, ...