The IUCN World Conservation Congress is a once-every-four-years gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and ...

The top three years for extreme heat have occurred in the past six years (2024, 2023, 2019). Nine cities notched a record ...

Apex-level FFPOs are national or regional umbrella bodies that represent and support local groups and networks. They give ...

IIED has launched a new five-year nature finance strategy designed to tackle the deep flaws in the way global finance ...

IIED is seeking a research consultant to work on a project on the impacts of climate change on health in vulnerable urban ...

Cities in the global South hold some of the greatest, but most overlooked, climate-related health challenges. Yet, they are also places where there are major opportunities to not only tackle health ...

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is a pivotal ...

Reacting to a report in the Financial Times that Keir Starmer is considering skipping the COP30 leaders' summit in Brazil, ...

Despite recent global commitments, top-down and exclusionary conservation still marginalises Indigenous Peoples and local ...

Dhows (traditional sailing vessels) are used for fishing in northern Zanzibar (Photo: Alex Berger, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) During the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, IIED researchers and partners ...

COP30 president Brazil has been explicit that the priorities of local communities must be central to action plans for adapting to climate change. The upcoming summit in Belem presents a huge ...