Developed by the Climate and Development Ministerial (C&DM) secretariat with support from SouthSouthNorth (SSN), the ...

IIED is bringing a focus on climate and the environment to a popular internet word game by launching A GREENER WORLDLE. The game A GREENER WORLDLE was developed by IIED to raise awareness on ...

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 ...

Sapphires from the island of Madagascar, ranked among Earth's top ten most ecologically diverse countries, wow the world's top traders and jewellers. The nation is one of the world's biggest sapphire ...

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 ...

Children look upwards to a balloon that is part of a balloon mapping project A red balloon more than a metre in diameter rises above tin roofs in Mathare, one of Nairobi’s biggest informal settlements ...

High consumption levels in wealthier countries have long driven environmental destruction around the world. This includes the destruction of natural forests to produce agricultural commodities, which ...

Twenty years ago Costa Rica began to pioneer schemes that paid land owners to protect forests in return for the benefits they provide, such as conserving wild species, regulating river flows and ...

"There is no pride on a dead planet". LGBTQI+ communities have been systematically excluded from receiving government support because legal documents rely on a gender binary system (Photo: Mika ...

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 ...

More than 100,000 families live in Mukuru, a densely packed informal settlement squeezed between factories to the south-east of Nairobi's city centre. But although people have lived here since the ...