18 August 2021
A new briefing from IIED looks at the complexities around land tenure systems in sub-Saharan Africa and how the dominant approach to secure ‘women’s land rights’ isn’t delivering the change women need
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
28 July 2021
IIED and partners have released a tool, available in multiple languages, to support practitioners to find sustainable alternatives to wild meat that work for rural people
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
22 June 2021
In the lead up to the first ever global summit on food, IIED launches a new series of blogs to contribute to the debate about food systems transformation
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
14 June 2021
IIED and partners have launched a website that focuses on the wellbeing, self-reliance and livelihoods of displaced people in urban areas and camps in four countries
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
10 May 2021
The new Transformative Urban Coalitions project brings IIED and partners together to change structures and values, build new urban coalitions and implement strategies leading to socially inclusive zero-carbon cities
10 May 2021
IIED, SDSG and CCSI have collected community development laws and agreements for the mining sector from more than 50 countries to encourage better research and policy
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
1 March 2021
IIED has launched the first in a series of three animations that depict the deep and personal loss and damage caused by climate change in the least developed countries (LDCs) – stories that, too often, go untold or unheard
11 February 2021
Our review of the year highlights how IIED and its partners worked to deliver positive change in exceptional circumstances
8 February 2021
Last December, IIED chair Dr Tara Shine gave a televised talk about climate change as part of the Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution. The lecture is now available for global audiences
21 January 2021
Substantial improvements have recently been completed to IIED’s online research Publications Library
11 January 2021
A new online training webinar from IIED sets out the steps local institutions can take to access climate finance, as well as the good practices donors can follow to make sure they can get money to where it matters
7 January 2021
The Pamoja Voices toolkits enable people and communities in Tanzania and Zanzibar to articulate their priorities for building resilience to climate change
18 December 2020
On 30 December, IIED chair Dr Tara Shine will give a televised talk about climate change as part of this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
4 December 2020
A new film being launched in advance of the Thimphu Ambition Summit underlines how the least developed countries are leading the way when it comes to climate action
16 November 2020
Four briefings and a new working paper from our ‘Money where it matters’ series explore the benefits and challenges of getting development and climate finance flowing to the local level
