Nicola Sorsby, researcher (locally-led action for nature and climate) at IIED said: “There was some positive movement at COP17, with new financial commitments and growing suppor ...

Community Eco-Credit (CEC) is an innovative incentive-based model in which community groups manage and lend credit to members ...

Locally led adaptation (LLA) is now widely endorsed in principle, yet the evidence base to show whether it works in practice ...

Locally led adaptation (LLA) works, but funders continue to cite a lack of evidence as a barrier to scaling up. New IIED ...

IIED has launched a new toolkit to support the governments of least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing ...

This event links the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16.3 (access to justice), 11.1 (adequate, safe, and ...

In Nigeria, removing fossil-fuel subsidies and improving the access and affordability of solar systems has driven a huge increase in off-grid green energy. Nigeria’s experience suggests that the ...

At this month's UN biodiversity summit, CBD COP17, Parties will undertake the first global review of progress in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). The review ...

Dilys Roe and Krystyna Swiderska look at the global biodiversity framework’s Target 9 to explore how it has been interpreted and how it could be strengthened for the benefit of both people and wild ...

Locking up carbon globally while also feeding the world requires an agroforestry transition – and fast. As part of new Brazilian initiative TERRA, a pioneering industrial-scale agroforestry system in ...

Future leaders from urban youth movements are embracing community-led digital tools and practices to organise, exchange and learn – and to advance a vision for housing and urban governance that is ...

How secure is the world’s food supply? And what happens when the climate changes? From night markets to global supply chains, climate change is making food systems more vulnerable to the ...