For the second year in a row, social protection, loss and damage and debt relief are the hot topics in IIED’s 10 most ...

This paper was prepared as an informal background briefing for the first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert ...

Society’s poorest, most marginalised and excluded people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature’s degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is ...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are experiencing increasingly frequent climate-related disasters with severe consequent economic impacts. These nations’ financial stability is further ...

See how IIED is working with diverse partners, including governments, donors, academia and other NGOs, to promote locally-led approaches that advance justice and resilience for people, climate and ...

The construction industry plays a major role in climate change and environmental damage, with buildings accounting for over a third of the world’s carbon emissions. Most new buildings in the coming ...

In china three major rangeland management policies have caused large-scale changes for pastoral societies and rangeland ecosystems: the rangeland Household contract System (rHcS), ecological ...

This handbook provides practical guidance for planning and implementing community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in three vulnerable ecosystems: mountains, drylands and coastal areas. It is ...

IIED has three practical and relatively low-cost tools for stakeholders and rights-holders of a protected or conserved area to assess the social impacts, quality of governance and equity of ...

Recovery from COVID-19 provides a historic opportunity for giving greater voice to local people — especially women, youth, children, disabled, displaced and marginalised ethnic groups — and putting ...

There is growing recognition that local organisations, people and communities need to lead or be meaningfully involved in the response to the climate, biodiversity and poverty crisis. The Least ...

Climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world. We work with policy and research partners to redress the balance by helping the poor in low and middle-income countries ...