Press Releases
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December 20, 2007
Recent events highlight key role of Canadian scientists on the world stage
Leading organizations make link between 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and Bali climate negotiations (December 20, 2007, Ottawa) Three leading organizations dedicated to understanding climate change, are pleased to recognize the Canadian scientists whose contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) helped win the group the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The awards ceremony on December...
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December 07, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize Award 2007
IISD congratulates James Bruce The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony will be held on December 10th, 2007 at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway. December 10th is the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize will be former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr. R.K....
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December 04, 2007
Weather of Mass Destruction?
Climate Change as the 'New' Security Problem December 12, 2007 1100 – 1200 hrsRoyal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London Once seen as an environmental issue, then as an energy problem, climate change is now being recast as a security threat. This presentation will discuss the rise of climate change as a security issue and question what it means for economic and political stability...
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November 19, 2007
New Global Subsidies Initiative report on investment incentives
An increasingly globalized marketplace has intensified competition among all levels of government to attract investment. Investment incentives—subsidies used to induce investors to choose one location over another—are one set of policy tools at governments' disposal to influence the flow of investment capital in their own favour. A new report by the International Institute for...
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November 16, 2007
INFASA - International Forum on Assessing Sustainability in Agriculture
New book on sustainable agricultureSustainable Agriculture, from Common Principles to Common Practices is the first book published by the International Forum on Assessing Sustainability in Agriculture (INFASA). The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL) are leading a multi-year forum (INFASA) to seek excellence in the use of...
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November 09, 2007
IISD Board Vice-Chair Angela Cropper named UNEP Deputy Executive Director
The International Institute for Sustainable Development would like to offer our congratulations to IISD Board of Directors' Vice-Chair, Ms. Angela Cropper of Trinidad and Tobago. On November 7, 2007, she was named as the Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Currently Ms. Cropper is an independent member of the Senate of...
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November 08, 2007
Internet Governance and Sustainable Development
IISD book launch When: November 14, 2007 17:00 to 18:00Where: Internet Governance Forum - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IGF meeting room – Pardo IIKeynote speakers from InfoDev, IDRC and IISDWine, refreshment and hors d'œuvres Sustainable development. Internet governance. The connection between these two issues may not be obvious and yet in this increasingly global economy the two are...
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November 02, 2007
United Nations Environment Programme
Ask UNEP A UNEP Online feature—Ask UNEP—allows the public to ask an expert and join in the global discussion on the environment. Each day a new UNEP expert will provide answers to your questions about environmental projects and issues around the world. The expert-a-day exercise aims to bring the environment into public discourse and create a discussion about the health of our planet...
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November 02, 2007
2007 Peter Kilburn Memorial Lecture
Sustainability Reporting and Transparency Featured Speaker: Alyson Slater, Global Reporting InitiativeHost: The Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the EnvironmentWhen: Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 6 pm to 7 pmWhere: Stollery Executive Development CentreRoom 5-40, Business Building, University of Alberta Reception to follow lecture. Thousands of companies issue sustainability...
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October 30, 2007
Global Environment Outlook
Environment for development (GEO-4) In order to build environmental considerations into decision-making there is a strong need to monitor and assess environmental impacts and changes. Without the ability to monitor and assess human development's impacts on environmental trends, navigating the sea of global change would be reduced to reactive crisis management—hardly an effective way to...
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