23 May 2022
A new report from IIED, commissioned by Sida, urges governments to recognise the role of locally-led action in supporting the sustainable agenda at Stockholm+50, and shows that more is needed to get finance and decision-making power to the local level
23 May 2022
IIED partners and staff pay tribute to an inspirational leader and fighter for rural women’s rights and entitlements in India and worldwide
28 April 2022
A recent ‘how-to’ guide on debt instruments for debt managers and environmental decision-makers in developing countries has now been made more widely available in Arabic and Mandarin
20 April 2022
In the third and final episode of podcast mini-series ‘Sustainable Development Goals – Evaluating progress for a brighter future’, Kassem El Saddik, co-chair of EvalSDGs, hosts a discussion on what country-led evaluations can bring to assessing progress towards the SDGs
23 February 2022
IIED’s animation ‘Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs: Solomon Islands’ is a finalist in the Charity Film Awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in March 2022
27 January 2022
IIED is bringing a focus on climate and the environment to a popular internet word game by launching A GREENER WORLDLE
1 January 2022
IIED director Andrew Norton has hailed Saleemul Huq as a "tireless climate justice champion" after he was awarded an OBE by the Queen in the New Year's Honours List for his services to combating international climate change
17 December 2021
The IIED animation ‘Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs: Solomon Islands’ has been nominated for the Charity Film Awards.
13 December 2021
In episode one of a new podcast mini-series, IIED hosts a discussion about the principles, practice and challenges of considering climate risks in evaluation of programmes aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
9 November 2021
Development and Climate Days 2021 kicks off today (November 9) with a record number of participants, bringing together grassroots leaders, researchers, development practitioners and policymakers to explore how to build a climate-resilient future for all
8 November 2021
At the COP26 Resilience Hub on 8 November 2021, the recently launched informal Champions Group on Adaptation Finance, together with representatives from the UN Secretary-General's office, took stock of progress on adaptation finance over recent months and committed to further action heading into 2022
8 November 2021
Danida, Sida, USAID and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the latest donor agencies to endorse eight principles for locally led adaptation, developed to help ensure that local communities are empowered to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level
21 October 2021
IIED and the Green Economy Coalition launch a new thought-provoking series of blogs to scrutinise the dominant approaches to solving the nature, climate, and inequality crises
12 October 2021
Key creditors of African countries, including China and international private investors, need to engage with innovative debt instruments to support indebted countries tackle the triple crisis of a high debt burden, climate change and nature loss. That’s the message of a new issue paper from IIED and UNECA.
22 September 2021
A new Champions Group on Adaptation Finance, launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2021, has issued a clear political commitment to work with developing countries to accelerate adaptation finance and invited other climate finance providers to join them.
12 August 2021
New or updated NDCs have been submitted by 110 out of 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement. For those remaining, IIED has unpacked the Paris Agreement guidance to show they can enhance climate ambition
21 July 2021
IIED has recently become a member of the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership, a worldwide network of climate, humanitarian and development communities
9 July 2021
The World Resources Institute Ross Centre ‘Prize for Cities’ competition has awarded its grand prize to the municipality of Rosario, to recognise major progress in building climate resilience and equity through urban agriculture
18 June 2021
The UK's COP26 Adaptation and Resilience Champion Anne-Marie Trevelyan says enabling more locally led adaptation informed by inclusive plans is a critical part of what the UK wants to achieve at this year's UN climate talks
14 June 2021
The chair of the Least Developed Countries Group on climate change has warned that while the world’s attention has been on COVID-19, the crises on climate, biodiversity loss and poverty continue – and the stakes have never been higher than today
9 June 2021
This episode explores ways to align global climate finance systems more effectively with the real-life situations of people in communities and at the local level, to ensure successful locally led adaptation to climate change
20 May 2021
In the second episode of ‘Locally led adaptation – a time for action’, organisations that have signed up to the principles of locally led adaptation are held to account by two expert judges. Will their plans for tracking progress on putting local people in control of local level adaptation make the grade?
13 May 2021
At the start of 2021, 40 governments and leading organisations endorsed eight principles for locally led adaptation. As the number of endorsers grows, IIED has launched an innovative podcast mini-series to explore what this commitment will mean in practice
31 March 2021
IIED launches the last of a three-part animation series that recounts the lived experience of climate change loss and damage, as told by Rwandan youth activist Ineza Umuhoza Grace
15 March 2021
IIED launches a new animation that describes the catastrophic impacts of loss and damage caused by climate change in Sierra Leone, as narrated by UN climate negotiator Gabriel Kpaka
