IISD In The News
IISD's research, experts and publications are regularly featured by press outlets and on multimedia platforms around the world.
The list below is a selection of recent mentions. Click Here for other media-related content.
-
Infrastructure impacted by climate change
Journal of Commerce - December 04, 2013 This "Construction Corner" article notes that IISD's recent literature summary report exploring climate impacts and risks to key infrastructure is "a paper that owners and managers in the construction industry might want to read as they consider the long-term...
Read More -
Hard numbers present city - warts and all
Winnipeg Free Press - December 03, 2013 A report on Peg, a community indicator system for well-being and sustainability, launched by IISD and the United Way of Winnipeg.
Read More -
'Social good' doing more harm than good
Business Circle - December 03, 2013 Sharmila Ganapathy writes about GSI's Citizen's Guide to Energy Subsidies, providing a Malaysian analysis to IISD's work on transport fuel costs in that country.
Read More -
Sustainability Through Partnerships: A Guide for Executives
TMC Connect.net - December 03, 2013 "It is through collaboration often involving the oddest bedfellows, that we vest this generation's hope for addressing the challenges of poverty, inequality and environmental insecurity," says IISD Senior Fellow Simon Zadek. Zadek represents IISD on NBS's Leadership Council.
Read More -
WTO's Bali ministerial meeting holds fate of Doha Round in its hands
The Globe and Mail - November 27, 2013 IISD associate Robert Wolfe penned this op-ed asking whether the World Trade Organization (WTO) can function as a negotiating forum. The future of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations is at stake.
Read More -
South Africa Breaks Out
Project Syndicate - November 05, 2013 Acclaimed economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz’s op-ed on sovereignty and investment agreements, in agreement with the analysis of IISD’s Investment program.
Read More -
Sustainable Consumption: Stakeholder Perspective
World Economic Forum - November 01, 2013 Mark Halle's chapter, Paddling Upstream, was included in the World Economic Forum's book Sustainable Consumption: Stakeholder Perspective
Read More -
Experts offer fresh ideas to ensure trade is catalyst for development
unctad.org - October 04, 2013 Mark Halle's contribution to the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board on global trade and economic development.
Read More