Events

In addition to our flagship IIED Debates series of events, we regularly host or jointly organise with partners a range of in-person, online and hybrid events focusing on our latest work, including at global conferences. Register for forthcoming events and sign up to our events newsletter or see what you missed, including video recordings

Forthcoming events

Man in black jacket walking among temporary tents and shelters.

How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?

Event on 27 September 2023

Building with a mural of a young girl.

Forced displacement and the city

Event on 26 September 2023

Latest IIED Debates

This series of events offers insight into the world’s most pressing challenges and creates an opportunity to debate and explore solutions

Man in black jacket walking among temporary tents and shelters.

How can we achieve a world without long-term refugee camps?

Event on 27 September 2023

View of informal housing and vegetation in the background.

Better for everyone: exposing the hidden value of equitable housing in informal settlements

Event on 20 July 2023

A group of people sitting at desks in a room facing a panel

Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action

Event on 30 June 2023

A house submerged in flood waters with a tree towering above

Preparing for crisis: investing in climate adaptation and disaster resilience

Event on 07 March 2023

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UN climate change conference (COP27)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 2022 UNFCCC climate change summit in Sharm el-Sheikh

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UN biodiversity conference (COP15)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities around the 15th Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15)

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Barbara Ward lectures

An event featuring the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED’s founder and inspirational speaker Barbara Ward.

Find out about past and future events

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Past events

A cement factory in the background covered by tree branches.

Hidden handbrakes: tracking the invisible barriers slowing climate action

Event on 22 September 2023

Vegetables street vendors sitting on the floor.

Transformative food systems governance and the environmental agenda: lessons from the national and city level

Event on 13 September 2023

View of informal housing and vegetation in the background.

Better for everyone: exposing the hidden value of equitable housing in informal settlements

Event on 20 July 2023

Street with colourful buildings and people standing in the shade. A body of water can be seen in the background.

Housing and equitable cities: bolstering local action for the implementation of SDG 11

Event on 19 July 2023

Woman with a watering can in each hand waters a garden full of crops.

Forging a climate-resilient Europe: learning from community-based adaptation practitioners outside Europe

Event on 21 June 2023

Text saying "I don't believe in global warming" written on a wall beside a canal, with the water overlapping the bottom of the words.

IIED at London Climate Action Week 2023

Event on 24 June 2023

Men pile up sandbags in a long line on a beach, with the ocean in the background.

Scaling practical solutions for tackling loss and damage in LDCs and SIDS

Event on 30 June 2023

Design with a book, a tablet and picture of Brianna Craft. Text reads "UK launch of Everything that Rises: A Climate Change Memoir by Brianna Craft"

Everything That Rises: an evening with Brianna Craft

Event on 27 June 2023

Woman picking weeds in a field of grass

Delivering LLA: lessons from the frontline of climate action

Event on 29 June 2023

A group of people sitting at desks in a room facing a panel

Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action

Event on 30 June 2023

A city view of Kolkata

City resilience bonds: an idea whose time has come?

Event on 29 June 2023

Boats on the sea shore

Fish Night 8: Keeping up momentum for artisanal fisheries and aquaculture

Event on 28 March 2023

A house submerged in flood waters with a tree towering above

Prepararse para la crisis: invertir en adaptación y resiliencia frente a los desastres

Event on 07 March 2023

A house submerged in flood waters with a tree towering above

Preparing for crisis: investing in climate adaptation and disaster resilience

Event on 07 March 2023

Aerial view of housing with metal roofs, palm trees and a river

Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day

Event on 16 March 2023

A small town sits beside a river with mountains in the background

Protecting and restoring critical water related ecosystems in mountains: the role of Indigenous Peoples and biocultural territories in mountain ecosystems

Event on 24 March 2023

A bustling riverway in Bangkok, Thailand

CBA17: local solutions inspiring global action

Event on 22 May 2023

Informal housing built on a hill

Cities for refugees: places of economic productivity, participation and wellbeing

Event on 06 December 2022

A series of rainbow flags outside a building.

Heteronormativity in the development sector: where are we now?

Event on 08 December 2022

Aerial view of flooded village and destroyed housing

Operationalising finance for loss and damage: examples from Africa and the Caribbean

Event on 10 November 2022

Where to find IIED and partners at COP27: event listing

Event on 06 November 2022

A view from on high of buildings on the foreground, with water and mountains in the distance.

Co-creating pathways to urban equality in a time of crisis

Event on 26 October 2022

Smiling women and men standing in a field looking at a mobile phone

Power of 'tech plus people' in early warning, early action and climate risk management

Event on 20 October 2022

Woman in a demonstration holds a sign that reads "Everybody vs racism"

A narrative for change: how can racism in storytelling impact development?

Event on 17 October 2022