In low- and middle-income countries looking to harness their mineral wealth for industrial development, Indonesia's nickel ...

This is one of three insights describing where a ‘living heritage’ approach has been applied, writes IIED senior associate David Satterthwaite. The following describes the response to the devastating ...

Water is a hugely strategic resource for most companies and its increasing scarcity creates significant business risk.

Extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate risks increasingly affecting the lives of urban residents in cities across the ...

Adaptation finance is critical to developing countries for adapting to the increasing impacts of climate change and to support the rapid shift to climate-resilient development pathways. At COP26 in ...

Another daily source of anger on Karachi’s roads is unsafe and poorly maintained infrastructure. Accidents on damaged roads, ...

Growing demand for ‘critical minerals’ and geopolitical rivalries between large economies are fuelling a scramble to secure ...

Western economics is not only destroying the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for ...

The world’s biggest capital cities have experienced a 52% increase in the number of days reaching 35°C over the past three decades, according to new analysis by IIED. It shows an overall rise in the ...

David Satterthwaite examines global trends in the size, growth and distribution of the world’s urban population. He also considers climate change and COVID-19. The transition to a predominantly urban ...

While Europeans use palm oil products to fuel their cars, many in Indonesia are deprived of their rights, suffer and even die from the processes of producing palm oil Ferdi Kurnianto, Indigenous ...

With six months until COP30 gets underway in Brazil, only 21 countries have submitted updated climate targets as required under the Paris Agreement. A series of pages related to IIED's activities at ...