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IIED appoints Winnie Byanyima as chair of its board of trustees

03 November 2026

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COP17 reaction: Progress on biodiversity welcome, but action remains too slow

31 October 2026

A group of people cheer and celebrate as they hold up a small savings box on which is written 'MKUBA'.

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Community eco-credit: from origins to practice and evidence

Event on 01 December 2026

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GET SET to be heard: why farmer advocacy starts with good governance

Stephen Mwangi
29 October 2026

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Insight

Making global trade rules work for small-scale fisheries

Annabelle Bladon
28 October 2026

A satellite image of a green island surrounded by blue water, with a dark green expanse showing the location of a mangrove forest.

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New IIED toolkit supports LDCs and SIDS with climate reporting

26 October 2026

Two people wearing boxes painted like houses on their heads sit in knee-deep water inside a derelict house.

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Housing justice: how can people-centred justice principles address forced evictions?

Event on 29 October 2026

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum, and COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago during a preparatory press conference for COP31 held in Istanbul.

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Where to find IIED and partners at COP31: event listing

Event on 09 November 2026

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Closing the data gaps on heat stress and developing strategies for resilience

Article, 15 October 2026

Woman outdoors holding a large container overflowing with freshly harvested cilantro/coriander.

Women’s tenure rights for gender-responsive coherence across the Rio Conventions

Insight, 14 October 2026

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Making subsidy reform work for nature, climate and people

Article, 14 October 2026

Minibuses on the streets of a busy city in Egypt. Bus drivers were among key groups affected by the subsidy reform because diesel prices.

Egypt: reforming fossil fuel subsidies to support social and economic priorities

Article, 14 October 2026

Indonesia: balancing the opportunities and risks of fuel subsidies reform

Article, 14 October 2026

Oil rig being serviced by a supply ship in Mexico.

Phasing out transport fuel subsidies in Mexico

Article, 14 October 2026

Audience members listening to the opening plenary speeches of the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026.

Spurring finance for climate resilience

Article, 13 October 2026

Farmer standing in their field in Cambodia, checking on harvest.

Locally-led restoration: the critical link between land, nature, climate and people

Insight, 13 October 2026

'Rey Zamuro' habitat bank, San Martin de los Llanos, Meta department, Colombia. Aerial view of the morichal forest in the habitat bank. It is managed by Terrasos, a Colombian-based company founded in 2013 specialising in the structuring and operation of environmental investments. In 2016, they developed their first habitat banking model in Colombia as a solution for delivering biodiversity compensation and are now expanding to issue biocredits for the voluntary market. This territory has historically been d

Two-thirds of nature finance fails to mention local communities, study suggests

Press release, 12 October 2026

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What will count as progress in the first global review? We need a gender-just evidence system

Insight, 05 October 2026

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IIED appoints Winnie Byanyima as chair of its board of trustees

COP17 reaction: Progress on biodiversity welcome, but action remains too slow

Community eco-credit: from origins to practice and evidence

GET SET to be heard: why farmer advocacy starts with good governance

Making global trade rules work for small-scale fisheries

New IIED toolkit supports LDCs and SIDS with climate reporting

Housing justice: how can people-centred justice principles address forced evictions?

Where to find IIED and partners at COP31: event listing

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IIED at WUF12

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Better cities are possible: achieving resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development

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Get closer to our latest research on critical issues by signing up to our range of email newsletters

Connect with us

Closing the data gaps on heat stress and developing strategies for resilience

Women’s tenure rights for gender-responsive coherence across the Rio Conventions

Making subsidy reform work for nature, climate and people

Egypt: reforming fossil fuel subsidies to support social and economic priorities

Indonesia: balancing the opportunities and risks of fuel subsidies reform

Phasing out transport fuel subsidies in Mexico

Spurring finance for climate resilience

Locally-led restoration: the critical link between land, nature, climate and people

Two-thirds of nature finance fails to mention local communities, study suggests

What will count as progress in the first global review? We need a gender-just evidence system