The energy transition is increasing demand for ‘critical minerals’ such as cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel. Making sure landholders’ and workers’ rights are protected, and communities and the ...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a major multilateral funder delivering nature finance to developing countries to protect biodiversity. The GEF is critical to ensuring that nature finance is ...

Where do you start to rebuild a city when it’s been all but erased? This question was on everyone’s minds after multiple ...

Farmer Rukmani Bai introduces her community to the CRISP-M tool, which uses AI as a partner to increase climate resilience (Photo: H&K Communications/IIED) ...

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles – produced by IIED and partners – that feature in IIED’s Gender Environment Hub, highlighting the complex links between gender inequalities ...

A new report has highlighted the ways in which women-led and community-based organisations are generating vital, gender-responsive biodiversity data through their everyday engagement with ecosystems ...

IIED and partners will engage at key moments on the road to COP17, including the SBI and SBSTTA meetings, to help turn the ...

The paper attempts a stock taking of urbanization in the post colonial period in India and critically examines the scenarios projected by international and national agencies. The policies and ...

Society’s continuing need for minerals is clear. However, the way in which minerals should be extracted, processed, used, and recycled - in the context of sustainable development - is less than clear ...

This paper examines why women’s meaningful participation in community engagements around land-based investments is essential ...

Following reports that the US Environmental Protection Agency is to announce the repeal of its 'endangerment finding' ...