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 ...

The economics and distribution of development benefits of large dams continue to be a source of controversy. Every dam is different, and efforts to generalise from a few (often well known, but ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: copyright AFREWATCH) As a critical component ...

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 ...

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 ...

The G20 is examining ways to improve the impact of the world's multilateral climate funds, aiming to make it easier for global South countries to access finance for climate action. Paul Mitchell and ...

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 ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo ...

A poster depicting the environmental and social costs of mineral extraction as perceived by local activists (Photo: Nicolás M. Perrone) Global narratives about the energy transition place all humanity ...

As the world’s rich nations renew their commitment to help developing countries finance adaptation to climate change impacts, we work out the costs of basic investments in locally led adaptation and ...

A room full of grey-suited men dominate the negotiations at COP27 in Egypt (Photo: UNclimatechange, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Every year, representatives of almost 200 countries come together under ...