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

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

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

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

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

Climate negotiator Ambinintsoa Heritokilalaina (Lalainà), from Madagascar, is part of IIED’s cohort of supported COP29 negotiators from the Least Developed Countries Group. As she prepares to return ...

Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) provide a crucial informal space for stakeholders attending the annual UN climate conference (COP29) to come together to share open, honest conversations and ...

Worldwide, over a billion people live in informal settlements without access to essential services and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As COP29 marks ‘Urbanisation Day’ (20 November) and ...