The failures at COP29 echo the disappointments of the UN biodiversity conference (COP16). There, critical decisions on ...

Small towns are where a large proportion of the world’s urban population live, and where the boundary between what is urban ...

IIED has a portfolio of research and policy engagement on urban refugees and internally displaced peoples that also supports ...

"Instead those wealthy countries have kowtowed to the fossil fuel interests of just a handful of countries, and put their own ...

IIED is seeking a governance and risk officer and IIED Europe is recruiting a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) officer. We are an independent policy research organisation based in the UK and ...

Climate negotiator Ambinintsoa Heritokilalaina (Lalainà), from Madagascar, is part of IIED’s cohort of supported COP29 negotiators from the Least Developed Countries Group. As she prepares to return ...

A junior climate negotiator based in Madagascar. Also head of the databases and monitoring and evaluation department of the national office for climate change and REDD+ at the Ministry of the ...

Join us to reflect on the nature COP16 and the climate COP29 – two key global conferences – and look forward to examine what ...