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    WEFsat-Mining Tool User-Guidance Manual: Water, energy and food security analysis tool for mining

    WEFsat-Mining Tool User-Guidance Manual: Water, energy and food security analysis tool for mining

    Water, energy and food (WEF) security are interlinked and co-dependent components of security and ranked by the World Economic forum as a key... Read More

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    Key Issues on the Road to Paris: A briefing note on COP 21 for the members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP)

    Key Issues on the Road to Paris: A briefing note on COP 21 for the members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP)

    The year 2015 is crucial in the fight against climate change.

    From November 30 to December 11, representatives of 196 countries will meet... Read More

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    Greening China's Financial System

    Greening China's Financial System

    The aim of this book is to develop specific proposals for greening China’s financial system, based on an analysis of current practice in China and an exchange of experience with international experts.  Read More
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    Inclusivity and Integration: The new Sustainable Development Goals and a second chance for Bretton Woods

    Inclusivity and Integration: The new Sustainable Development Goals and a second chance for Bretton Woods

    The Sustainable Development Goals have been dubbed “the Bretton Woods moment for our generation.” This paper explores some of the ideas and actors that shaped the earlier vision of the first Bretton Woods system, which laid the economic foundation and institutions of the post-Second World War period.  Read More
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    Climate Change, Conflict, and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Climate Change, Conflict, and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Peace and stability, it has long been recognized, are prerequisites for sustainable development. Read More
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    Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at Home

    Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals at Home

    Our earth and its people face serious challenges, from ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution, and deepening... Read More

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    Are Voluntary Standards Relevant to the SDGs? Three Factors that Matter

    Are Voluntary Standards Relevant to the SDGs? Three Factors that Matter

    At face value, it would seem, there could be little doubt as to the relevance of sustainability standards in achieving the UN’s freshly minted... Read More

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    Regional Sustainable Development: Lessons in integrated policies (speech)

    Regional Sustainable Development: Lessons in integrated policies (speech)

    IISD President and CEO Scott Vaughan spoke at the International Symposium on the Yangtze River Economic Zone and the Construction of Three... Read More

  • Blog
    Brazil's Innovative Approach to International Investment Law

    Brazil's Innovative Approach to International Investment Law

    One of the more contentious aspects of international economic law are so-called bilateral investment agreements (BITs).

    Dating back more... Read More

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    G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production: South Africa

    G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production: South Africa

    Jointly prepared by IISD, OCI and ODI, this country study and accompanying data sheet compiles publicly available information on fossil fuel... Read More

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