CBA19 hosted communities from diverse regions and landscapes. Their local knowledge and experience were fundamental in ...

The Hub for Housing Justice is a collaborative initiative led by a group of civil society networks and research organisations ...

The first UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) was held in 2021 in New York at the UN General Assembly. Its vision was to “launch ...

Biocultural Heritage Territories (BCHTs) are mosaics of land uses, deeply linked to Indigenous knowledge systems embedded in cultural traditions, where Indigenous knowledge and practices effectively ...

Agriculture is both a major contributor to climate change and highly vulnerable to its impacts. As global food companies push for 'sustainable' or 'regenerative' practices, there’s a critical question ...

With six months until COP30 gets underway in Brazil, only 21 countries have submitted updated climate targets as required under the Paris Agreement.

Climate-driven disasters in the United States are becoming more common according to analysis of long-term data from the country’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with 90 major disaster ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South A Know Your City team participates in ...

In September 2024, representatives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, international organisations, NGOs, government agencies and donors met in the UK to discuss how best to progress action ...

The world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are spending more than twice as much to service their debts as they receive to fight the climate crisis, according to new analysis by IIED. It ...

As world leaders prepare to gather for major summits on biodiversity and climate change – COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan – Indigenous Peoples and local communities are calling for greater ...

Structural racism in the international development sector requires systemic change. Our executive director Tom Mitchell reflects on IIED’s ongoing journey to tackle this within the organisation and in ...