Events
IIED events offer the opportunity to learn about the key current issues in environment and development. We use social media to provide ways for our audiences around the world to participate and benefit from our events.
Where possible we enable our virtual audience to follow event proceedings in real time and interact with speakers via our social media platforms.
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Conference |22 June 2017 to 29 June 2017The 11th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA11) focused on harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation.
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Seminar | 6 June 2017Join our webinar on 6 June 2017 to discuss how rural people can increase the accountability in agribusiness investments, looking at examples from Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal
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Conference |27 March 2017 to 28 March 2017IIED researchers will be speaking at the international ministerial conference of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) from 27-28 March, discussing how to support countries moving to more inclusive and sustainable economies.
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Conference |4 December 2016 to 17 December 2016IIED and partners will be at the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December to highlight sustainable solutions that protect biodiversity
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Conference |12 November 2016 to 13 November 2016Registrations have opened for D&C Days 2016, which will take place on 12-13 November 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, during the middle weekend of this year's United Nations climate change summit
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Side event |5 November 2016 to 16 November 2016IIED and its partners participated in numerous events during COP22. The theme of IIED's activities was 'embedding climate ambition', focusing on the need to take action in all areas of climate work in order to limit global warming
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Conference | 20 October 2016IIED and its partners will be at Habitat III, which takes place from 17-20 October in Quito, Ecuador
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Critical theme | 3 October 2016Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Keynote speaker Alex Randall, the programme manager at the Climate and Migration Coalition, an alliance of refugee, human rights, and migration rights organisations, argued that the story presented about the connection between climate change and the Syrian conflict has not always been accurate
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Conference |1 September 2016 to 10 September 2016IIED and its partners will be at this year's World Conservation Congress in Hawai'i from 1-10 September 2016
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Side event |11 July 2016 to 20 July 2016IIED was involved in three side events at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development from 11-20 July, 2016
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Seminar | 13 June 2016The challenges and opportunities that the Sustainable Development Goals create for Least Developed Countries were discussed at an event in London in June
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Conference |30 May 2016 to 1 June 2016This year's Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting will focus on learning from the South, climate resilient poverty reduction and inclusive green economies
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Seminar | 5 May 2016On Thursday, May 5, 2016 IIED is hosting a discussion meeting that will bring together four leading experts on urbanisation and development to look at at the prospects for Habitat III, the global summit on housing and sustainable urban development. The event will also see the launch of the April issue of Environment & Urbanization
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Conference |22 April 2016 to 28 April 2016The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA10) focused on enhancing urban community resilience
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Conference | 25 February 2016IIED and partners are hosting a conference in London on 25 February that is designed to help build a new policy agenda to integrate the informal economy with inclusive green growth and sustainable development
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Learning event | 22 February 2016IIED to host high-level briefing on the outcomes and challenges of the Paris Agreement
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Conference |5 December 2015 to 6 December 2015The 13th annual Development & Climate Days in Paris will focus on 'Zero poverty, zero emissions: tough talk on poverty and climate'
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Conference |30 November 2015 to 11 December 2015IIED attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris from November 30 to 11 December, 2015.
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Conference |7 September 2015 to 11 September 2015IIED and its partners will be at this year's World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, from 7-11 September 2015
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Conference |23 August 2015 to 28 August 2015The annual World Water Week in Stockholm focuses on a wide range of issues relating to water across the globe. This year's theme was 'Water for development'. GWI West Africa held a side event at World Water Week 2015, titled 'Towards socially just and economically viable dams in West Africa'. The event was designed to share some of the lessons learnt from our work in West Africa and exchange experiences with others from across the globe
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Side event |23 August 2015 to 28 August 2015IIED and IUCN, as part of the Global Water Initiative in West Africa, will be at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden from 23-28 August, 2015, and will be holding a side event on 'Towards socially just and economically viable dams in West Africa'
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Critical theme | 7 July 2015A "Critical Theme" seminar on Tuesday, 7 July looked at the benefits and challenges of locally controlled enterprises for forest peoples
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Workshop | 16 June 2015Join us for a workshop looking at the Participatory Innovation Model, a practical appraoch for successful innovation in a complex world
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Critical theme | 20 May 2015IIED's May Critical Theme seminar explored challenging questions on gender equality, women's empowerment and environmental change.
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Critical theme | 16 March 2015Our March Critical Theme seminar looked at the environmental and political issues raised by raised by the film "Under the Dome", made by one of China's leading investigative journalists, Chai Jing.