When cities get hot, the most vulnerable communities are hit hardest: people living in informal settlements must endure the ...

This case study by Teurai Anna Nyamangara and Marcelle Mardon examines the intersection of gender, extreme urban heat and ...

Mathare is one of the world's largest informal settlements, with 245,468 people living on low incomes in poor, overcrowded ...

Throughout the upcoming CSW70, IIED and partners will host and participate in a range of key events. This page provides more ...

As the Business of Conservation Conference kicks off in Nairobi, Kenya, IIED is launching a series of short videos, telling the story of biodiversity credit – biocredit – schemes that have been ...

Twenty-five per cent said they’d been unable to work due to hot weather, while 40% said they’d been prevented from sleeping properly. Overall more than two-thirds of people (70%) said they had ...

This zine, 'What does gender justice mean to IIED and to me?', emerged from two facilitated dialogues with IIED staff reflecting on what gender justice means in principle, the language used to ...

Designed for both experienced and new trainers who have an interest in training others in the use of participatory methods, whether they are researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, villagers or ...

IIED has a number of series and other programmes of work that connect with the impacts of climate change across cities, as shown by these related collections: The global climate emergency ...

This issue paper reports the findings of pilot participatory heat data collection in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. It reveals indoor temperatures up to 9°C hotter than outside, and the impacts extreme ...