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

D&C Days 2024 focused on four themes that need to be addressed to speed progress on climate change: Here are the key messages ...

Indeed, Zambia has faced profound economic challenges in recent years, including a contraction in GDP, rising inflation 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 ...

Over half of the world’s population lives in towns and cities. 1.1 billion of those people live in informal settlements ...

At an awards ceremony on 13 November at COP29, IIED-América Latina (IIED-AL), IIED’s partner organisation based in Argentina, ...

Most development theory and practice is implicitly based on the dichotomy between 'rural' and 'urban' areas, populations and activities. This is reflected in the division of policies along spatial and ...

In China, as in many other countries undergoing rapid economic growth, increasing socio-economic inequalities and environmental damage are the main threats to sustainable urbanization. Drawing on ...