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    Global Market Report: Bananas

    Global Market Report: Bananas

    This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards are used to promote sustainable development in the banana sector. Read More
  • Blog
    How Can We Support Fisheries During the Pandemic?

    How Can We Support Fisheries During the Pandemic?

    We must aim to support businesses, incomes, and food security while creating a more sustainable future for fisheries. Read More
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    Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Action Through National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes

    Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Action Through National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes

    This report aims to help countries engaged in NAP processes use a gender-responsive approach, regardless of where they are in the process. Read More
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    Remembering Sylvia Ostry, a Pioneering Winnipegger

    Remembering Sylvia Ostry, a Pioneering Winnipegger

    The proud Canadian saw in IISD an organization prepared to take risks in pursuit of its mission, defy the status quo, and challenge accepted wisdom. Read More
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    Can Palm Oil Be More Sustainable?

    Can Palm Oil Be More Sustainable?

    Palm oil has become synonymous with deforestation and biodiversity loss. It's also the most consumed edible oil in the world. Can we make it sustainable? Read More
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    How Can a Six-Digit Trade Code Help the Environment?

    How Can a Six-Digit Trade Code Help the Environment?

    Every single thing that gets shipped from one country to another has a special trade code assigned to it. How can this help the environment? Read More
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    After the Oil Crash, We Need a Managed Wind-Down of Fossil Fuel Production

    After the Oil Crash, We Need a Managed Wind-Down of Fossil Fuel Production

    To meet climate goals and avoid further market chaos, governments need to plan the decline of coal, oil and gas production, with support for workers. Read More
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    Force Majeure and COVID-19: Legal risks of a double-edged sword

    Force Majeure and COVID-19: Legal risks of a double-edged sword

    This breifing note offers expert advice for governments on how to approach force majeure claims and defences amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
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    Joint Statement on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises: History and latest developments in the Informal Working Group

    Joint Statement on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises: History and latest developments in the Informal Working Group

    This brief outlines the history and developments of MSME-related discussions in the World Trade Organization (WTO) context, looking specifically at MSME-related issues at the WTO as well as in other forums and contexts. Read More
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    Resilient Recovery: Using climate adaptation plans to build back better

    Resilient Recovery: Using climate adaptation plans to build back better

    Though focused on climate change, National Adaptation Plans offer important assessments of the risks a country faces and can be valuable in devising comprehensive pandemic response strategies. Read More

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IISD publishes objective, independent, high-quality research including books, reports, working papers and other materials covering all sustainable development themes. 

The IISD Library includes reports, issue briefs, books, working papers and other materials capturing much of IISD's institutional and research history.

IISD's publications are available to download as PDF files at no charge. Hard copies of many of these are also available for sale. See our Permissions & Licensing Policy. We are occasionally able to reprint bulk orders of out-of-print publications (a minimum of 50 copies). For further information on such special orders, please contact the Publications Coordinator. If you have any trouble finding specific titles in the database or have any questions about our publications, please contact us.