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