Throughout the upcoming CSW70, IIED and partners will host and participate in a range of key events. This page provides more ...

The findings of the assessment (PDF) point to the urgent need for structural changes in the biodiversity data chain, and led ...

Twenty-five per cent said they’d been unable to work due to hot weather, while 40% said they’d been prevented from sleeping properly. Overall more than two-thirds of people (70%) said they had ...

Biocredits are a measurable and credible way for companies and individuals to invest in nature. Meanwhile, communities gain from the benefits that nature provides to wellbeing, livelihoods and culture ...

Registration is now open for the 20th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA20), which will take place from 11-14 May 2026 in Manila, Philippines.

Conventional energy planning is frequently top‑down and siloed, and focuses narrowly on grid connections while overlooking the diverse priorities of local communities, especially those of marginalised ...

Pakistan’s low-cost sanitation programme known as the Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has become famous worldwide for how it keeps costs down, delivers high quality sanitation and involves poor communities ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Street waste pickers are those who suffer ...

As the UNFCCC COP30 approaches in Belém, Brazil, country platforms have gained renewed attention across climate finance discussions. The COP30 Circle of Finance Ministers launched its report with ...

Long-term research throws light on how and why change happens, and questions simplistic assumptions about the origins of conflict between groups. A study of one village in central Mali over more than ...

This issue paper reports the findings of pilot participatory heat data collection in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. It reveals indoor temperatures up to 9°C hotter than outside, and the impacts extreme ...

The biocredit market directs finance to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, which when designed correctly can benefit and empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities, a group which ...