Rooted in cultural and spiritual traditions, sacred forests offer unique opportunities for conservation. This article highlights the Knowledge-to-Action (K2A) project in Benin, led by the NGO SURVIE de la Mère et de l’Enfant. The K2A initiative aims to integrate Indigenous Knowledge and sacred forest management into biodiversity and climate policies across six districts.

This piece was originally published on the IIED website. At the COP28 climate summit in 2023, governments formally established the…

The authors explain the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), key areas of priorities, what progress has been made and what comes next.

Even our best-case funding scenario paints a grim picture for many of the world’s most climate-vulnerable places. Yet there is reason to hope.

Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

This piece discusses the UAE-Belém Work Programme, which focuses on developing global indicators to measure climate resilience, addressing challenges such as data gaps and standardization. The programme aims to refine these indicators through workshops in 2025, in preparation for COP 30.

The United Nations biodiversity conference (COP16) recently reconvened in Rome to resume global negotiations on filling the biodiversity funding gap and conserving nature worldwide. This piece outlines key decisions, compromises and challenges that emerged from the talks, and discuss the way forward for biodiversity action.

Discover how researchers and advocates are working to preserve access to climate data amid efforts to obscure or restrict scientific information under the Trump administration.

President Trump’s orders to leave the Paris Agreement and “terminate the Green New Deal” will have far-reaching implications for climate governance and action in the United States and globally, but giving up is not an option.