The world’s major cities now experience a quarter more very hot days per year on average than they did three decades ago, according to new analysis by IIED. Researchers collated temperature data for ...

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 ...

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

Join us for Development and Climate Days 2025 (D&C Days 2025) – a two-part conference combining digital and in-person events.

Amelia Cookson [06:35] Foodrise is a charity transforming the food system for climate, nature and justice. So for us, ...

To coincide with Climate Week NYC 2025, members of the Urban Resilience Strategic Exchange (URSE) will gather for the first ...

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

In 2023, IIED was among the first to highlight the relevance of investment treaty issues to the advisory opinion process.

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 ...

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 ...

Annabelle is an interdisciplinary researcher leading IIED’s work on aquatic food systems. Focusing on small-scale fisheries and the communities they support, she works to identify and reduce the ...

As foreign investments in agriculture and extractive industries increase pressures on land and natural resources, the effective use of legal tools, by government and advocates alike, has become an ...