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This diagram illustrates how ambition for the Paris Agreement must be racheted up (Image: Clare Shakya/IIED)
Helping parliamentarians drive national climate change policy
Project, 18 December 2012
Climate change and religion in flooded Bangkok
Insight, 20 October 2011
A woman market trader holds up a small plastic bag of fresh fish.
The politics at play in Vietnam’s food system
… decisions are based on facts. It also helps scientists justify their work – making them feel like they are contributing to the decision … also apply to the political agenda around food systems? That “our food systems are failing us” and “something needs to be done” is now …
Insight, 16 September 2020
Modern energy services are crucial to economic development. In Afghanistan, less than 10 per cent of the population has access to the electricity grid. French NGO GERES has been working to introduce low-cost passive solar building designs, reducing fuel poverty (Photo: Oriane Zera, GERES, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Facing up to the awkward realities of the post-2015 agenda
… changes in key drivers of unsustainability and inequity in our global systems. And this is where the true challenge of the … Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney. Standard practice in our financial systems underestimates the value of future threats, and … economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (Sustainable Development Goal 8) While there are clear …
Insight, 28 January 2015
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… organisations to assume biodiversity is tangential to their work – or even works against it. For example, some assume biodiversity … flood protection, drought resilient crops, and wild-caught protein. Our issue paper  and briefing  provide an overview of the evidence that …
Insight, 29 April 2019
A large audience sits in a cricualr room, facing a man behind a lectern. The UN logo is printed on the wall.
Is COP26 back on track? The UN General Assembly will be a pivotal moment
Insight, 28 July 2021
Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)
There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity 
… Human activity has irrefutably hammered our natural world. Recent reports  from the Intergovernmental … to poverty and marginalisation must be inclusive decision-making. Our research contradicts the narrative that protecting biodiversity must …
Insight, 28 June 2018
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… forest farm producer organisations in Bolivia. The timing of this work could not have been better. Bolivia has recently passed a 2012 … different mentality – we need to better structure and operationalise our business ideas around multiple product lines – and provide services to our members". IIED is working through the FFF to capture in a compendium …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Key words related to mining and sustainable development (Image: IIED)
Mining's search for sustainability: how far have we come?
… , was published in 2002. A decade on, what has been its impact? Our new discussion paper, MMSD+10: Reflecting on a decade , is intended … of just a few stakeholders and initial independent research. Our work over the coming months will highlight apparent progress and …
Insight, 07 June 2012
A masked woman sits behind a desk reading an information booklet next to a sign that is labelled 'Rwanda'. behind her is a large banner proclaiming the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference
Why COP26 was worth it
… whether or not the COP is relevant, my answer is simple: it's about our survival. COP26 provided a platform to put in place policies that … the loss and damage finance facility, as well as continue my advocacy work for loss and damage finance. COP26 wasn’t easy, the outcome wasn’t …
Insight, 06 January 2022