Media

Video - media partnership plugs the climate information gap on road to Copenhagen

Short film about the work of the Climate Change Media Partnership, training journalists to report on climate change around the world.

UN agency ignores indigenous approach to knowledge protection

Communities the world over risk losing control over their traditional knowledge because a UN agency insists on using existing intellectual property standards for managing access to the information.

Radical shift needed to end alarmism over climate-related migration

Policymakers must radically alter their views of migration and see it as a vital adaptation to climate change rather than an unwanted consequence or a failure to adapt.

Report urges oil and gas multinationals to tackle energy poverty in host nations

The report focuses on Nigeria, a country with huge energy resources and foreign investment in the sector but also serious poverty and environmental challenges.

First book focusing on adaptation to climate change in cities

Adapting Cities to Climate Change contains contributions by 37 specialists from a variety of disciplines, several of whom served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A team from IIED has edited the first book to address in detail the ways in which cities can adapt to climate change

Good governance key to success of payments to tackle deforestation and climate change

Paying people to protect forests can be an effective way to tackle deforestation and climate change but only if there is good governance of natural resources.

Update from Saleemul Huq at the Bonn climate change talks

An analysis of the state of international negotiations to agree steps to address climate change, from Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow in IIED's climate change group.

First detailed study of large land acquisitions in Africa warns of impacts on poor rural people

Land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa and other continents, raising the risk that poor people will be evicted.

First detailed study of large land acquisitions in Africa warns of impacts on poor rural people - Download report

COP15: Climate Change Media Partnership opens 2009 fellowship programme

The largest group of developing-world journalists returns to boost media coverage of climate change in a critical year of negotiations.

Poorest nations unready for health impacts of climate change

Health systems in many of the Least Developed Countries are already stretched to breaking point and climate change will add new burdens.