Development & environment

Publications2 February 2026

The UNGASS decade in review: Gaps, achievements and paths for reform

IDPC assesses the state of play in global drug policy, reflecting on areas of progress while highlighting new and ongoing challenges, and concluding with recommendations for the future of international drug policy.

Press Releases2 February 2026

New report warns international drug policy is failing — as ‘war on drugs’ regains momentum

As the United Nations embarks on far-reaching institutional reform, a major new report from the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivers a stark warning: global drug control is failing.

Events

Harm reduction for social development: Strengthening health, workability, and inclusion

Online

4 November 2025 - 4 November 2025

This webinar positions harm reduction as a strategic pathway for cross-sector development, improving climate, health, and socio-economic outcomes.

Publications10 September 2025

Gender, coca, and the Colombian Peace Agreement: The overlooked gendered dynamics in policy implementation

Zuluaga Duque et al. reveal how coca substitution policies continue to undermine women’s autonomy by overlooking their conditions of exploitation and exclusion despite their centrality in cultivation.

News9 September 2025

Some conservation groups want to legalize cocaine—here’s why

The 'war on drugs' against cocaine fuels Amazon deforestation, empowers organised crime, and endangers Indigenous communities, all of which speak of the need for rights-based reform.

Publications30 July 2024

Study on innovative approaches to alternative development in Latin America and the Caribbean

COPOLAD publishes a study of how IADA initiatives can advance the relevance and effectiveness of alternative development in drug-affected territories beyond traditional rural contexts of illicit cultivation.

Publications4 December 2023

Off track: Shadow report for the mid-term review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on drugs

IDPC draws on wide-ranging data from UN, government, academic and civil society sources to conclude that there has been little, incomplete or no progress in achieving the goals set out in the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Drugs.

News9 August 2022

Climate justice & drug policy

'War on drugs' policies contribute to the destruction of our planet, which is why environmentally sustainable regulation should be part of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Publications2 August 2022

Prohibited plants: Environmental justice in drug policy

TNI examines the drugs-environment nexus, its implication for rural working people, and critically interrogates drug policy and development responses to it.

Publications2 August 2022

Loosening drug prohibition’s lethal grip on the Americas: The U.S. finally embraces harm reduction but the drug war still rages

WOLA shines a light on the harms of the US' 'war on drug' efforts in Latin America and domestically, calling instead for a transition toward regulation that protects human rights and promotes health, gender and racial equality, security and environmental sustainability.

News29 July 2022

Opium cultivation and environmental justice in Myanmar

To achieve sustainable change, responses to opium cultivation must be embedded in an environmental justice approach.

News8 June 2022

Afghanistan’s opium problem requires a humanitarian solution

Opium cultivation is a lifeline to many Afghans, which is why eradication demands by the international community could prove catastrophic.

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