Droughts have emerged as one of the top factors driving people from their homes in war-torn Mali as the effects of climate ...

The 29th United Nations climate conference (COP29), held in late 2024, made some progress but disappointingly fell short of ...

Climate-driven disasters in the United States are becoming more common according to analysis of long-term data from the ...

In Sierra Leone, rapid urbanisation and lack of capacity has led to the expansion of informal settlements that often lack access to basic services. The high cost of land and construction, along with ...

The Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) project was developed to address the challenge of ...

It analyses both economic and non-economic loss and damage using the Comprehensive Climate Impact Quantification toolkit and ...

Communities at the frontline of climate change impacts such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather events have critical knowledge on how best to cope, and what is needed to enable this climate ...

Around the world, people are experiencing the social and ecological consequences of economic transformations – from large-scale investments in agriculture, energy, mining, manufacturing and ...

IIED's Human Settlements programme works through partnerships to create towns and cities that are sustainable, prosperous, resilient, healthy and safe, and inclusive and equitable. We do this by ...

Large-scale acquisitions of farmland in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia are making headlines in a flurry of media reports across the world. Lands that only a short time ago ...

Climate change disproportionately affects the poorest people in the world. We work with policy and research partners to redress the balance by helping the poor in low and middle-income countries ...