The most high-profile economic decision-making currently relates to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite growing evidence that investing in nature is an economic winner, much of the public spending deployed for the COVID-19 recovery has not been adequately green and largely under-invests in nature.At this…See More

Listen now to 'Getting climate resilience right: the case for backing smallholder organisations’ - the newest episode of IIED’s Make Change Happen podcast.In forest landscapes, 1.3 billion smallholder farmers, communities and indigenous peoples…See More

Ecosystem-based adaptation, or EbA, involves people working with nature to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.Ample evidence from IIED and other organisations – along with experiences from communities around the world – demonstrate that EbA has great potential to help people adapt to climate change while delivering environmental, social and economic…See More

Following the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, download a new report from IIED in collaboration with the Nature-Based Solutions Initiative (NbSI) at the University of Oxford, Investing in nature for development: do nature-based interventions deliver local development outcomes?…See More

A debate over terminology risks distracting attention from the key issues under discussion in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and derail the number one priority of agreeing an ambitious framework that can both halt biodiversity loss and deliver for human wellbeing.In this backgrounder, we explore the concepts of nature-based solutions and the ecosystem approach and gauge how far they differ. We also…See More