Small towns are where a large proportion of the world’s urban population live, and where the boundary between what is urban ...

D&C Days 2024 focused on four themes that need to be addressed to speed progress on climate change: Here are the key messages ...

"Instead those wealthy countries have kowtowed to the fossil fuel interests of just a handful of countries, and put their own ...

IIED has a portfolio of research and policy engagement on urban refugees and internally displaced peoples that also supports ...

The failures at COP29 echo the disappointments of the UN biodiversity conference (COP16). There, critical decisions on ...

Over half of the world’s population lives in towns and cities. 1.1 billion of those people live in informal settlements ...

Join us to reflect on the nature COP16 and the climate COP29 – two key global conferences – and look forward to examine what ...

At an awards ceremony on 13 November at COP29, IIED-América Latina (IIED-AL), IIED’s partner organisation based in Argentina, ...

Indeed, Zambia has faced profound economic challenges in recent years, including a contraction in GDP, rising inflation and ...

Scientific evidence is mounting that rangeland degradation is intensifying and expanding in China’s rangelands, as a consequence of 30 years of inappropriate policies, as well as climate change. Such ...