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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Members of the Setidevi dairy cooperative are feeding tree fodder to dairy livestock to increase milk yields, farmer income and tree cover across the middle-hills of Nepal (Photo: Duncan Macqueen, ...

Indigenous communities from Northwest Argentina recognise the urgent need to shift to clean energy but question current models driven by 'green extractivism', which threaten the rights and resources ...

Least developed countries, Small Island Developing States and other vulnerable countries are experiencing spiralling climate impacts and wrestling with debt distress that leaves them unable to build ...

Food security is a critical factor in building the future resilience of communities in northeast Nigeria (Photo: UNDP Climate, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) After the energy sector, agriculture is the ...

Knowledge sharing from nine countries confirms that upgrading informal settlements serves as a powerful form of climate action – integrating resilience, sustainability and justice. A series of ...

Urban action was one of three themes framing the 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA19). Urban communities brought critical insights on how to make ...