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

Image of big #COP29 outside building in Baku

A missed opportunity: why COP29’s broken promises will leave billions behind

Tom Mitchell
28 November 2024

Man walking alongside a main road going through a small town in Uganda.

Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?

Cecilia Tacoli
27 November 2024

View from the bottom of a tree, up a trunk to the canopy of green above.

The transparency framework: the mainstay of efforts to combat climate change

Ambinintsoa Heritokilalaina (Lalainà)
22 November 2024

Two people holding plants and discussing.

Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Anna Walnycki and Tucker Landesman
20 November 2024

Tree nursery

Strengthening climate resilience through agroforestry and community forestry

Stephen Mwangi
19 November 2024

Children walking and playing around a court yard.

Bringing nature to children in disadvantaged urban communities

Sudeshna Chatterjee and Louise Chawla
14 November 2024

Two people bending down, cooking in a pot set over an open fire. This was part of a cooking demonstration for the village.

The journey to reform the international financial architecture: a long and winding road

Laura Kelly
12 November 2024

A man in traditional robes bending to inspect crops in a large field of green vegetation

COP29 must deliver bold commitments to limit catastrophic climate impacts

Mustafa Yahia
11 November 2024

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The transition to a predominantly urban world

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High-level delegates at the fourth Climate and Development Ministerial in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Climate and Development Ministerial: bridging trust and accelerating action for climate-vulnerable nations

Insight, 07 November 2024

Tree seedilings being watered and tended in Vrassan, Burkina Faso.

Climate finance for least developed countries: lessons on locally led adaptation

Insight, 06 November 2024

Favela, an urban slum located within or on the outskirts of São Paulo.

Bringing housing justice and civic media together: three reflections

Insight, 04 November 2024

A corridor in Kisenyi, with a semi-permanent hostel and a permanent structure.

Driving change for Kampala’s urban refugee population

Insight, 31 October 2024

People queueing.

I hate queueing: is it ever a good thing?

Insight, 30 October 2024

The Finance and Biodiversity pavilion at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.

Finance for nature and climate: shared learning on common challenges

Insight, 28 October 2024

Woman walking though a field in Zimbabwe and checking the crops.

Emerging principles for supporting locally-led biodiversity action

Insight, 21 October 2024

Farmer in India showing the state of damaged wheat crops on his farm.

Scaling up social protection for food security in a climate-constrained world

Insight, 16 October 2024

An urban slum in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

Realigning urban development: five points, five minutes

Insight, 14 October 2024

A group of colourfully dressed people stand behind a huge amount of amassed crops and in front of some impressive mountains under a blue sky.

Indigenous Peoples are the real solutions to the nature and climate crises

Insight, 10 October 2024

Image of Kigali, Rwanda.

Navigating climate adaptation in urban Africa: lessons from Kigali

Insight, 03 October 2024

Farmer looking at coffee cherries in Belize

The benefits of backing family agroforestry businesses – food for thought

Insight, 01 October 2024

Local community in Guinea attending to field.

Recognising and protecting family farming in Guinea: a successful advocacy journey

Insight, 09 September 2024

Farmers in Ethiopia checking crops in a field.

How to fix funding bottlenecks and pave the way for locally led adaptation

Insight, 04 September 2024

Buildings destroyed after devastating floods in Pakistan.

Delivering low-cost, high quality sanitation – at scale

Insight, 02 September 2024

Washing blocks in informal settlements with clothes hang to dry outside.

Global campaign for a ‘Roof Over Our Heads’

Insight, 14 August 2024

Group shot of members from One World Together

Transforming funding landscapes to benefit communities

Insight, 29 July 2024

Group image of the members of the C20 working group

Driving impact at the G20: lessons from IIED's engagement with philanthropies

Insight, 24 July 2024

Woman pastoralist herding cattle in Marsabit, rural Kenya

How are civil society and impacted communities working to change the governance of land-based investments?

Insight, 22 July 2024

Uganda farmer bending down to check his crops

Putting Uganda’s biggest users of climate adaptation knowledge at the heart of its creation

Insight, 16 July 2024

Illustration of hands holding together the planet

What do we mean when we talk about justice?

Insight, 11 July 2024

Open air laundry place in Mumbai, clothes and pieces of material hanging on strings and air drying.

Principles of community organisation according to Jockin Arputham – and why they are relevant today

Insight, 10 July 2024

Members of IIED staff sitting in a circle, discussing

Becoming an anti-racist organisation: what we’ve learnt so far

Insight, 03 July 2024

Group of people gathered around with one person standing in the front, talking

Putting locally-led climate adaptation principles into practice: insights from CBA18

Insight, 02 July 2024