Where to Find IIED and Its Partners at COP31 and COP17

IIED publishes dedicated event listings for both the UN climate conference (COP31) and the UN biodiversity conference (CBD COP17), so the most direct way to locate the institute and its partners at either meeting is to check those listings on iied.org. The COP17 listing covers the 17th UN biodiversity conference, running 19–30 October in Yerevan, Armenia; the COP31 listing covers the climate conference beginning 9 November 2026. Both pages are described as event listings rather than full agendas, so they are best used as a starting point for finding sessions, then confirmed against the official conference programmes.

What the COP17 listing covers

IIED frames CBD COP17 as a pivotal moment for reversing biodiversity loss and states that it and its partners are attending in Yerevan to push for turning pledges into practical, equitable action that supports the priorities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The event listing is the page to use for finding where IIED and partners appear during the 19–30 October window.

Related work published around the summit gives a sense of the themes IIED is bringing to it:

• Locally led finance for nature — an event and accompanying work on estimating finance flows to local actors for conserving and restoring nature (12 October 2026).
• Subsidy reform — an article on making subsidy reform work for nature, climate and people (14 October 2026).
• Gender and tenure — an insight by Karen Wong Pérez and Omaira Bolaños on women's tenure rights for gender-responsive coherence across the Rio Conventions (14 October 2026).

If you are attending COP17 and want to hear IIED or its partners speak, start with the listing and match its entries against the official CBD programme; the listing itself does not appear to publish a complete session-by-session schedule.

What the COP31 listing covers

The COP31 listing is dated from 9 November 2026 and is presented in the same format: a place to find IIED and partners at the climate conference. The site does not, in the material available, set out a full COP31 agenda or a list of every session, so treat the listing as an index of IIED-linked events rather than a definitive timetable.

Related events worth knowing about

Two events on the site sit alongside the COP listings and may be relevant if your interest is in IIED's wider convening work:

The housing justice event connects to IIED's wider urban work, including its spotlight on cities as places of justice and its research on forced evictions and climate change.

How to use the listings

1. Open the COP17 or COP31 event listing on iied.org.
2. Note the events attributed to IIED and its partners, together with their dates.
3. Cross-check each entry against the official conference programme, since the listing is an index rather than the authoritative schedule.
4. For context on the positions IIED is taking, read the spotlight on IIED's asks at the UN biodiversity summit and the related articles on nature finance and subsidy reform.

The main limitation to plan around: the listings tell you where to look, but they do not replace the official COP programmes for room numbers, times or registration requirements.