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

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

Western economics is not only destroying the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s biggest capital cities have experienced a 52% increase in the number of days reaching 35°C over the past three decades, according to new analysis by IIED. It shows an overall rise in the ...

With six months until COP30 gets underway in Brazil, only 21 countries have submitted updated climate targets as required under the Paris Agreement. A series of pages related to IIED's activities at ...

High consumption levels in wealthier countries have long driven environmental destruction around the world. This includes the destruction of natural forests to produce agricultural commodities, which ...

The G20 is examining ways to improve the impact of the world's multilateral climate funds, aiming to make it easier for global South countries to access finance for climate action. Paul Mitchell and ...

Traditional landscapes conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) across different ecosystems sustain vital ecosystem services and can deliver large-scale emission reductions. Yet ...