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Briefing Note
How Small Businesses Can Support Climate-Resilient Value Chains: Lessons from Uganda
This brief focuses on investments by domestic seed companies in quality seeds, including climate-resilient varieties, in developing countries and the climate risk management benefits for other actors along the value chain. It is designed for researchers and practitioners working on agricultural value chains, food security and climate resilience in developing countries. Read More -
Blog
What it Would Take to End Hunger
An event on the sidelines of CFS 43 focused on the public investment required to end hunger. Read More -
Blog
As Mines Become More Automated, What Happens to the Social Licence to Operate?
We recently examined the impact of this automation on local spending and employment. Our aim was to determine the impact on economic development in host states and, by extension, the mines’ social licence to operate. Read More -
Guidebook
IISD at the Marrakech Climate Change Conference
The 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UNFCCC takes place from 7-18 November 2016. Our experts will be on the ground providing daily coverage of the negotiations, publishing targeted research, and convening events. Read More -
Report
Mining a Mirage? Reassessing the shared-value paradigm in light of the technological advances in the mining sector
This report uses real-world mining data to estimate the impacts of new technologies on employment and employment-related procurement, which drive major benefits in host countries. Read More -
Report
Investment-Related Dispute Settlement: Towards an inclusive multilateral approach
This document outlines results from an IISD expert meeting discussing investment-related dispute settlement which was held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016. Read More -
Report
Opening Our Doors: IISD Experimental Lakes Area 2015-2016 Annual Report
2015-2016 was the year that IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) truly opened its doors to the world. Read More -
Blog
Turning Down the Temperature: Freezing HFCs as a critical step in climate action
This past week, climate negotiators gathered in Rwanda's capital Kigali to once again test the international community’s political resolve to tackle climate change, this time on a class of short-lived greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons. Read More -
Policy Brief
sNAPshot: Domestic public finance for implementation of NAPs
This overview policy brief introduces the topic of using domestic public finance for the implementation of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. Read More -
Briefing Note
Ending Hunger: What would it cost?
The International Institute for Sustainable Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute joined forces to estimate what it would cost to end hunger, and the contribution that donors need to make. Read More