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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Workshop | 10 October 2018We’re inviting community representatives to express their interest in participating in a London workshop on how to effectively engage with the illegal wildlife trade at the local level. Closing date: 31 July, 2018
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Conference |18 June 2018 to 24 June 2018Adaptation Futures 2018 takes place from 18-21 June 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. IIED and partners will be showcasing a range of work during the conference.
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Workshop |11 June 2018 to 14 June 2018CBA12 took place in Lilongwe, Malawi from 11-14 June. Adaptation practitioners, researchers, policy makers and investors met to discuss how to promote local action on climate change. This page brings you daily updates from the event.
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Workshop |11 June 2018 to 14 June 2018Malawi will host this year's CBA event from 11-14 June 2018. Experts in locally-driven climate action will share innovation, skills and knowledge on how to get climate finance behind what works.
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Conference |11 June 2018 to 14 June 2018Day 3 of CBA12 will focus on investing in locally-driven adaptation. In this Q&A, IIED’s Nanki Kaur discusses the challenges and opportunities around this new field of investment and tells us more about the day’s sessions when hopefuls working with local communities will pitch real-life proposals to investors in a ‘dragons den’.
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Learning event | 16 April 2018Join our webinar on 16 April 2018 to discuss how small-scale farmers can be supported when negotiating with companies.
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Seminar | 22 February 2018A new series of discussion seminars organised by IIED will examine how issues of gender are addressed at major international conferences.
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Learning event | 6 February 2018Join our webinar to discuss how civil society groups can bring forward community perspectives, human rights or environmental issues in investor-state arbitrations
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Seminar | 14 December 2017Leading international climate negotiators and their advisors will analyse the outcomes of the Bonn climate talks and discuss key issues for future negotiations at an IIED event
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Conference |15 November 2017 to 16 November 2017A conference in November will examine how to improve humanitarian aid and collaboration when crises hit urban areas
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Conference | 15 November 2017The Development & Climate (D&C) Days event at COP23 explored four key themes towards climate resilience for all
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Conference |6 November 2017 to 17 November 2017This page summarises the activities of IIED, its researchers and partners during the annual climate change talks (COP23) in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November, 2017
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Conference |30 October 2017 to 3 November 2017IIED will be at the Seventh Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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Conference |16 October 2017 to 20 October 2017IIED will be at the annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF), which takes place from 16-20 October in Geneva, Switzerland
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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