Despite recent global commitments, top-down and exclusionary conservation still marginalises Indigenous Peoples and local ...

Cities in the global South hold some of the greatest, but most overlooked, climate-related health challenges. Yet, they are ...

IIED has launched a new five-year nature finance strategy designed to tackle the deep flaws in the way global finance ...

IIED is seeking a research consultant to work on a project on the impacts of climate change on health in vulnerable urban ...

Apex-level FFPOs are national or regional umbrella bodies that represent and support local groups and networks. They give ...

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is a pivotal ...

The top three years for extreme heat have occurred in the past six years (2024, 2023, 2019). Nine cities notched a record ...

Reacting to a report in the Financial Times that Keir Starmer is considering skipping the COP30 leaders' summit in Brazil, ...

COP30 president Brazil has been explicit that the priorities of local communities must be central to action plans for adapting to climate change. The upcoming summit in Belem presents a huge ...

IIED Europe is recruiting a senior monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) advisor for an immediate start, based in the ...

In the first of a new blog series, IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite looks at the world’s 100 largest cities, and how their changing distribution reflects social, political and economic shifts ...