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Five chimneys. Two of them releasing smoke.
Why the ‘climate club’ needs to take on investment rules
Insight, 14 March 2022
Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.
How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?
… Climate change adaptation is “a journey, not a destination”, as our sage … programmes are beginning to develop results frameworks, but these focus largely on what ‘outputs’ a project produces from various … Climate change … How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway? …
Insight, 06 December 2012
Many inhabitants of the city of La Paz in Bolivia live in extreme poverty. A persistent myth is that urban poverty is driven by large numbers of poor migrants (Photo: Lemurian Grove, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Debunking the myths about migration and climate change
… on the Foresight project on Migration and Global Environmental Change brings together the contributions of 350 researchers from 30 … for the cities as is often assumed by politicians and urban planners? Our partners’ work shows that, on the contrary, there is a great … rural-urban migration. But, for the reasons mentioned above, their focus on reducing the numbers of migrants to the cities is unlikely to …
Insight, 16 November 2011
Laos is heavily dependent on traditional agriculture and is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as flooding (Photo: Magalie L'Abbé, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How I learnt to make my voice count at the UN climate negotiations
Insight, 23 July 2018
A number of informal tents forming a village.
Introduction to urban crises and forced displacement
… the world are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and extreme weather events. At the same time, climate, conflicts … group on urban poverty , governance, risk and resilience. It takes our understanding of urban systems to new audiences involved in … not work well in complex urban environments. One important strand of our work focuses on the experiences of refugees and internally displaced …
Article, 23 October 2020
Dr Tara Shine conducts an experiment for her televised lecture
Prestigious lecture by IIED chair now available worldwide
News, 08 February 2021
Cover for 20206iied.pdf
Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?
… jobs, food security, empowerment, as well as resilience to climate change. Overall, we found a wealth of evidence that investments in nature can be a ‘win-win’ for biodiversity and development. Our findings confirm those of previous analyses and provide a sound …
Publication, 04 June 2021
Wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia.
Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
… renewable technologies can initiate a process of transformational change within developing countries. However differences in opinion exist … in a recent announcement that rural renewable energy will be focus of the next  fiscal year running from July 2013 to 2014 July. What … over the next few years. This blogs draws on research carried out by our in-country partners in Nepal and Ethiopia and is part of a broader …
Insight, 08 July 2013
Cattle drinking water from a lake
Lessons from Paris: global biodiversity framework must engage business, grow finance
Insight, 11 May 2021
Two people walking in a rural landscape
Practical guide helps negotiators put equity at the heart of the new global biodiversity framework
Insight, 04 May 2021