Information for Journalists

Spokespeople

IIED researchers are available to comment in the media on environment and development topics. To arrange an interview or to request a list of spokespeople and their areas of expertise, please contact IIED's press officer Mike Shanahan

+44 207 388 2117

mike.shanahan@iied.org

"We are borrowing from the future and leaving the next generation with an environmental overdraft. We need policy to shift from viewing economic growth as inviolable to seeing that environmental limits and people's rights are more important."
Steve Bass, senior fellow.

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Free Publications and downloads

Many of our publications are available to download free of charge in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our publications help page for more information if you are unfamiliar with this format.

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The IIED Times reproduces some of the climate change related press releases IIED issued in 2008, along with feature and opinion articles written by IIED staff. It is intended to show the range of ways in which the institute works on climate change and to explain how we work to share the findings of our research.

 

SDOsOur Sustainable Development Opinion give IIED researchers, partners and affiliates a platform to air views on today's key issues in sustainable development, from biodiversity, biofuels, climate change and fair-trade timber to sustainable business and urban resilience.

  

Briefing coverOur Briefing Papers are clear overviews of today's environment and development issues. Accessible, topical and relevant to a range of readerships, they offer up-to-date research, flag up the people and processes involved, and point to needed shifts in policy. Recent briefings have covered air travel, climate change adaptation, cities and the links between biodiversity and poverty.

 

Catalogue coverOur database contains abstracts, further details, and download information for all our published work. You can search all publications (both formal published works, and informal "grey" literature) or limit to specific IIED published series.

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Further Information about our work and Partners

A sense of direction - IIED's 2008/9 annual reportOur Annual Report for 2008/9 brings us up to the start of our 2009-2014 strategy, our focus this year is foresight and horizon-scanning. You’ll find essential information on IIED: who we are, what we do, our mission, our ways of working, the basics of our new five-year strategy, and a look at many the year's projects.