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Policy Brief
Building on Momentum: Recommendations from the GSI for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform at the G20
This policy brief examines the progress made to phase-out inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel subsidies, the increasing momentum behind subsidy reform in international processes and the steps needed to ensure that the commitment is met. Read More -
Brochure
Smart-Sourced Fuel Products
Many different types of “waste” or under-used plant materials can be turned into value-added bioenergy fuel products. This brochure, available in both English and French, focuses on such materials available in Manitoba, Canada, including agricultural residues, forestry residues, grassland plants and wetland plants. Read More -
Blog
Cattails Into Clean Energy: Where to from here?
Richard Grosshans takes a look at the success our bioeconomy work harvesting cattails into clean-energy pellets, and discusses where the project is headed now. Read More -
Policy Brief
sNAPshot: Grenada's Approach to Initiating Sector Integration of Adaptation Considerations
No single approach to integrating climate adaptation considerations into sector planning exists.
However, concrete examples are emerging... Read More
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Blog
Government Policies are Discouraging Adaptation to Climate Change
"Unless these perverse risk-shifting incentives are replaced with measures that strongly promote precautionary adaptation before disasters strike, climate change damages are likely to make the Wall Street meltdown seem like a minor blip." Read More -
Commentary
Meeting Canada's Subsidy Phase-Out Goal: What it means in Ontario
IISD examines some of the fossil fuel subsidies in place in Ontario, how the government is responding to them and where more can be done. Read More -
Video
The Water Brothers Explore Climate Change at IISD-ELA
At the end of May 2016, the Water Brothers visited IISD Experimental Lakes Area to shoot an episode on the impact of climate change on fresh water. They performed some of the science themselves, spoke with researchers, shot our beautiful vistas and, most importantly, met our fish. Read More -
Commentary
Building Transboundary Water Security
This article highlights a new generation of transboundary agreements that aim to integrate wider freshwater benefits, notably ecosystem functions. It also points to the need for holistic approaches to freshwater management moving forward, as countries turn towards implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read More -
Report
Manitoba Prairie Lakes: In-lake remediation treatment summary
This is a summary of a comprehensive research study (Manitoba Prairie Lakes: Eutrophication and In-Lake Remediation Treatments Literature Review) in which IISD examines in-lake remediation treatments. Read More -
Newsletter
Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2016
Investment Treaty News (ITN), published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), is a quarterly journal on international investment law and policy and sustainable development. Read More