A number of IIED’s videos during 2025 were recordings of events, both webinars and in-person seminars and conferences, but ...

Even before COVID-19, fears were growing over developing country debt, which had surpassed US$8 trillion by the end of 2019. The pandemic has made the situation much worse as its economic impact ...

Cities in low- and middle-income countries are growing at unprecedented speed, and the greatest impact will fall on people living in informal settlements. Rapid urban growth, weak governance and ...

Rainforest on the banks of the River Pará, close to COP30 host city Belém (Photo: Paul Mitchell, IIED) Taking place in the hot and humid Amazon city of Belém, COP30 was billed as the ‘nature COP’ or ...

Global efforts to combat climate change will require a transition to renewable energy and government action to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. If followed through, such ...

Coffee is Ethiopia’s main export crop, contributing to the livelihoods of more than 5 million smallholder farmers. However, these smallholders find themselves at the bottom of a long value chain that ...

Global climate resilience is a matter of life and death. In forest landscapes, 1.3 billion smallholder farmers, communities and Indigenous Peoples must organise for climate resilience to survive. With ...