Events

IIED regularly hosts or jointly organises with partners a range of in-person, online and hybrid events focusing on our latest work, including at global conferences. Register for forthcoming events and sign up to our events newsletter or see what you missed, including video recordings

Forthcoming events

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London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2026

Event on 25 June 2026

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Where to find IIED and partners at COP17: event listing

Event on 19 October 2026

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Related global conferences

See the events and work IIED and partners shared at the most recent global summits

UN climate change conference (COP31)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities at the 2026 UNFCCC climate change summit in Turkey

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UN biodiversity conference (COP15)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities around the 15th Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP15)

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Barbara Ward lectures

An event featuring the current generation of outstanding women in development, in honour of IIED’s founder and inspirational speaker Barbara Ward.

Find out about past and future events

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Past events

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IIED at WUF13

Event on 17 May 2026

Fishing boats on the shore in Thailand.

IIED at the 5th World SSF Congress

Event on 27 April 2026

Indigenous women’s groups perform a Tlalmanalli ceremony in Mexico. They are sitting in a circle, wearing traditional clothing and grabbing colorful cloths and pulling them.

Advancing Indigenous and diverse knowledge systems in global assessments

Event on 20 May 2026

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Scaling adaptation finance: what works in LDCs and SIDS

Event on 23 April 2026

Two people on a fishing boat in India, catching fish with a net.

Where to find IIED and partners at WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14)

Event on 26 March 2026

Women group in a farmer field school in Barbardiya Municipality, Nepal, preparing homemade botanical pesticide

De-risking the transition to agroecology in humanitarian contexts

Event on 29 April 2026

Group of women farmers from India gathered in a field, sitting in a circle and discussing. They are wearing traditional dress.

IIED at the 70th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70)

Event on 09 March 2026

Woman farmer from Zimbabwe checking soil in field.

Report launch: making space for women leadership in biodiversity data and evidence

Event on 05 March 2026

Informal settlement in Manila, Philippines on the water.

CBA20: Local solutions inspiring global action

Event on 11 May 2026

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Socio-technical practices for just cities: E&U special issue celebration

Event on 23 February 2026

Latest IIED Debates

This series of events offers insight into the world’s most pressing challenges and creates an opportunity to debate and explore solutions

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Beyond COP30: climate finance, justice and action in 2026

Event on 09 December 2025

Aerial view of savannah and morichal forest in San Martin de los Llanos, Meta department, Colombia

Breaking the debt burden: how to unlock finance for climate and nature

Event on 09 April 2025

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Far Away From Home: exploring city responses to refugees

Event on 12 February 2025

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Critical minerals, international policy and a just energy transition

Event on 29 January 2025

Related events series

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In 2018 IIED welcomed colleagues from Brazil, Cameroon, India, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe to Communications Learning Week (Photo: Anne Schulthess/IIED)

Communications Learning Weeks

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IIED short seminars: challenges for a post-COVID-19 world