Insights

Our insights give our experts and partners from across the world the platform to provide insight into key events, updates on ongoing research, and share experiences from their work

Guangzhou street scene.

Is China’s rate of urbanisation too fast or too slow?

Bingqin Li
15 April 2024

A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.

How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions

Kata Wagner
11 April 2024

A man fishing in a large lake.

Reflections on a journey of rethinking capacity building

May Thazin Aung
10 April 2024

A poster depicting the environmental and social costs of mineral extraction.

A just energy transition needs more than benefit-sharing: a view from the Atacama Salt Flat

Nicolás M. Perrone
09 April 2024

A young woman wearing shorts, standing on a beach in the Seychelles. There is a boat behind her.

Gearing debt swaps towards debt relief

Sejal Patel
03 April 2024

A pyramid-type structure made of foam upon which people have stuck small cubes representing ideas.

Refugee voices at the summit

Hala Ghanem
27 March 2024

Men and women dig for gold in an uncovered pit.

Artisanal gold mining in Mali: making gold shine for the people of Gouandiaka

Nouhoum Diakite
26 March 2024

A map from above showing a large green area (forest) with a large swathe of light green cutting through the centre, showing the extent of deforestatation.

Can Europe’s new deforestation regulation address concerns about trade and climate justice?

Lorenzo Cotula and Anirudh Nanda
25 March 2024

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Countdown to COP15

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Social movements for climate justice

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The transition to a predominantly urban world

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South

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Aerial view of an informal settlement and an urban centre in the background

Rethinking household surveys reveals true picture of health inequality

Insight, 18 January 2022

A man sat behind a desk and sign labelled 'Ethopia' gesticulates with his hands

Bringing youth’s energy from the streets to the climate negotiating table

Insight, 13 January 2022

A group of people sit on the floor in a circle. A woman on her feet is reading from a paper. Some other people are no their feet and holding hands in the air.

Legal empowerment as action research

Insight, 11 January 2022

A masked woman sits behind a desk reading an information booklet next to a sign that is labelled 'Rwanda'. behind her is a large banner proclaiming the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference

Why COP26 was worth it

Insight, 06 January 2022

An illustration of a man looking at his mobile phone

Planning ahead: how the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action

Insight, 05 January 2022

Screenshots from four of IIED's best videos

IIED's best of 2021: videos

Insight, 28 December 2021

A woman crouches on the flor next to a stove to make a meal

Multiple housing and climate-related vulnerabilities of informal workers in Indore, India

Insight, 16 December 2021

A group of women laugh and smile as they stand and dip their hands into two large buckets on a table

Starting a journey – reflections on race and racism and the work to do in our organisations and our sector

Insight, 15 December 2021

A man lines up six bright water bottles under a series of outside taps

Definitions matter – part two

Insight, 08 December 2021

Woman squatting in a garden, looking to the ground. She's surrounded by vegetables.

Decoloniality and the new ethics of climate and nature

Insight, 23 November 2021

People of all ages marching holding posters. One poster reads "protect all like on our planet"; another poster reads "no more blah blah blah"

COP27 and the important year ahead

Insight, 22 November 2021

A small brick building with two steps leading to a corrugated iron door houses a pit latrine.

The case for sewers

Insight, 19 November 2021

Three women and a man sit on a bench.

Women claim their space in land governance

Insight, 18 November 2021

Piles of bags and jerrycans. Men pick some of them up.

Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?

Insight, 17 November 2021

Screengrab of a videocall with eight people in a meeting room and five more online participants

Digital tools amplify the voice of women in Peruvian communities

Insight, 11 November 2021

Informal housing and tall buildings behind.

Definitions matter – part one

Insight, 10 November 2021

Woman waling with crutches steps outside a hut to a flooded road

New solidarity funds could ringfence finance for loss and damage

Insight, 08 November 2021

Elder woman kneels on the ground behind weeds.

Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are central to tackling the climate crisis – but they need finance

Insight, 05 November 2021

Two people sail a canoe around stilt houses.

Financing least developed countries’ climate strategies: taking the long view

Insight, 04 November 2021

Woman waters seedlings

Delivering high-quality, predictable and accessible climate finance for least developed countries

Insight, 03 November 2021

Man next to a pile of dried crops of maize.

New guide for linking sovereign debt to climate and nature action

Insight, 02 November 2021

A solitary tree on an island surrounded by water. Some people and cattle stand and sit underneath the tree.

Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities

Insight, 30 October 2021

Camp site with several informal tents made of fabric and plastic.

Are humanitarian agencies starting from scratch again in Haiti?

Insight, 24 October 2021

Rising water levels submerge trees and encroach on land

Can COP26 reach ambitious outcomes for LDCs?

Insight, 22 October 2021