Some of the world’s poorest countries are being trapped in a vicious cycle of debt because of a credit rating system that punishes disaster-linked debt relief and fails to adequately measure ...

Growing demand for energy transition minerals and strategic rivalries between large economies have prompted measures to ...

Workers drain a flooded thoroughfare after a night of severe thunderstorms in Kisumu, Kenya, 2016. Extreme weather events are set to become more frequent in coming years due to climate change (Photo: ...

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

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

Chimpanzees in Uganda are under threat as their habitat is lost to agriculture and human settlements. Central to this problem is the attitude of most farmers that chimpanzees and forest habitat ...

This year's D&C Days will take place in person, in Baku, Azerbaijan, at COP29 (Photo: IIED/D&C Days) Approaching the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, this one-day event in Baku, Azerbaijan, ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Previously neglected urban space transformed ...

As COP29 gets under way in Baku, it represents the latest in a series of intergovernmental discussions designed to address the climate, nature and inequality crises. Amid this crowded season of ...

Society’s poorest, most marginalised and excluded people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature’s degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is ...