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    Big Data for Resilience

    Big Data for Resilience

    Summary of a recent event looking at the links between Big Data, resilience and achieving long-term development goals, and the implications for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers. Read More
  • Policy Brief
    sNAPshot | Strategic Communications for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in Saint Lucia

    sNAPshot | Strategic Communications for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process in Saint Lucia

    A strategic approach to communications can improve how governments engage citizens throughout their NAP process. Read More
  • Blog
    Infrastructure, Industrialization and Innovation: Why SDG 9 matters and how we can achieve it

    Infrastructure, Industrialization and Innovation: Why SDG 9 matters and how we can achieve it

    With half the world now living in cities, and billions of dollars spent each year on growth and infrastructure, we need to finance and implement sustainable infrastructure practices that reduce our environmental footprint, employ clean technologies and are economically viable. Read More
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    Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action | A PRAC Webinar

    Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action | A PRAC Webinar

    This webinar highlighted two tools being used by municipalities to help with their adaptation planning process: the Climate Resilience Express toolkit developed by All One Sky and the Climate and Asset Management Network run by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).  Read More
  • Video
    How to Build a Floating Wetland

    How to Build a Floating Wetland

    Not only do floating wetlands look super cool, they could help us keep fresh water free of whole range of pollutants—maybe even oil spills! Madeline and Richard take us through how to make one, in this short video. Read More
  • Blog
    How the Energy Charter Treaty Could Have Costly Consequences for Governments and Climate Action

    How the Energy Charter Treaty Could Have Costly Consequences for Governments and Climate Action

    Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder explores the current status of the Energy Charter Treaty, and why now, more than ever, it deserves far more public attention and scrutiny. Read More
  • Report
    Our City: A Peg Report on Sustainability

    Our City: A Peg Report on Sustainability

    Winnipeg is changing. Winnipeg has always been changing. The fourth edition of Our City, A Peg Report looks at Winnipeg through the lens of the three pillars of sustainability and integrates the Sustainable Development Goals. Read More
  • Blog
    Using Financial Technologies for a More Sustainable Planet

    Using Financial Technologies for a More Sustainable Planet

    If you have heard of the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain, then you have probably heard of "fintech." We explore how these financial technologies could be applied to create a more sustainable planet. Read More
  • Blog
    Joining Forces to put People at the Centre of Land Governance

    Joining Forces to put People at the Centre of Land Governance

    IISD is proud to announce that the International Land Coalition (ILC) recently confirmed us as an official member. Francine Picard, Parliamentary Advisor for IISD’s Economic Law and Policy, explains what this means for IISD's work to end poverty and hunger. Read More
  • Blog
    Three Key Challenges to Innovative Public Procurement

    Three Key Challenges to Innovative Public Procurement

    In our work, we frequently come across three barriers for public procurers in their attempt to implement innovative public procurement. This blog discusses each and provides examples of how they are being addressed. 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.

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