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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city, has experienced rapid urbanisation over the past 50 years. While there is some contestation about what constitutes an informal settlement (slum) in Freetown and ...

A new report by Dutch consultancy firm Ecofys claims that European demand for biofuels is not to blame for “land grabbing” in poorer countries. The report — commissioned by an organisation that ...

In the first of a new blog series, IIED senior fellow David Satterthwaite looks at the world’s 100 largest cities, and how their changing distribution reflects social, political and economic shifts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...