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 ...
Water is a hugely strategic resource for most companies and its increasing scarcity creates significant business risk.
Another daily source of anger on Karachi’s roads is unsafe and poorly maintained infrastructure. Accidents on damaged roads, ...
Growing demand for ‘critical minerals’ and geopolitical rivalries between large economies are fuelling a scramble to secure ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
While Europeans use palm oil products to fuel their cars, many in Indonesia are deprived of their rights, suffer and even die from the processes of producing palm oil Ferdi Kurnianto, Indigenous ...
A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: copyright AFREWATCH) As a critical component ...
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