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Two community members checking a tree in wetlands.

Compromises, challenges and more unfinished business at COP16’s reconvened biodiversity talks

Karen Wong Pérez and Anna Ducros
07 March 2025

Group of women gathered for a regular meeting on aquaculture. One woman is standing and speaking with a poster behind her, while a groups is sitting and listening.

Gender equality and climate finance: from local realities to global commitments

Joy Munthali
05 March 2025

Group of community members recording via interviews via their phones.

Community-led innovations leading to transformative change

Camila Cociña and Esley Philander
27 February 2025

Image showing locals arricing by boat at a solar-powered irrigation system in Rwanda.

Why communities are key to unlocking renewable energy in climate-hit agricultural areas

Babucarr Bittaye and Kevin Johnstone
26 February 2025

Representatives in the European Parliament voting on an issue. Some have their hands raise while others are writing in notebooks.

Turbulent politics and the shift in global power dynamics: why context is everything

Subhi Barakat
19 February 2025

Panoramic image of Kinshasa, DRC

Extreme inequality and housing injustice in the DRC: rebuilding ‘Kinshasa la Belle’

Paula Sevilla Núñez
12 February 2025

Woman walking down the street in Nairobi, selling tea.

‘Urban first’ in a world without camps

Lucy Earle and Alison Brown
28 January 2025

Farmer and animals walking through a drylands area in Chad

Countering desertification and defusing climate wars: why myths matter

David Pertaub and Florence Crick
18 December 2024

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Cambodian farmers harvesting wheat while wearing a brightly coloured shirt.

Making the IDA replenishment work for poor communities: a test case for rebooting aid

Insight, 16 December 2024

Image showing the fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi after the construction, with a main street paved with stones, houses and shops.

It takes two (for a disaster) to tango

Insight, 13 December 2024

Women racing while carrying baskets full of sweet potatoes on their backs.

Faith in ecology: how one group of Indigenous people in the Philippines are advancing agrobiodiversity

Insight, 05 December 2024

Image of big #COP29 outside building in Baku

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

Insight, 28 November 2024

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

Measuring small towns – why definitions matter?

Insight, 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

Insight, 22 November 2024

Two people holding plants and discussing.

Cities are vulnerable to climate change and central to its solutions

Insight, 20 November 2024

Tree nursery

Strengthening climate resilience through agroforestry and community forestry

Insight, 19 November 2024

Children walking and playing around a court yard.

Bringing nature to children in disadvantaged urban communities

Insight, 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

Insight, 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

Insight, 11 November 2024

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