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IISD's diverse team of experts—which include investment lawyers, agriculture economists and fresh-water scientists—have managed projects in over 70 countries.

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Cattail for Clean Community Waterways: Turning urban plants into compost and bioenergy

IISD is working with the City of Winnipeg to improve urban environmental management and water quality, as well as to enable bioenergy development and production of compost, using innovative value chains from plant materials from routine city ditch and prairie grass maintenance.

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Cattail for Clean Community Waterways: Turning urban plants into compost and bioenergy Cattail for Clean Community Waterways: Turning urban plants into compost and bioenergy
  • Manitoba Bioeconomy Atlas

    Manitoba Bioeconomy Atlas

    The Manitoba Bioeconomy Atlas demonstrates the economic and ecological value of common wetland plants as a marketable feedstock for biomass energy—all with the goal of creating a healthier Lake Winnipeg basin and developing a Manitoba bioeconomy.

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  • Training Courses for Developing Countries on International Investment Treaties

    Training Courses for Developing Countries on International Investment Treaties

    The increased complexity and importance of the international investment framework has not, to date, been met with the requisite increased capacity of developing countries to negotiate, renegotiate and assess the agreements or to fully appreciate their implications.

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  • Working with Parliamentarians in Africa on Investment Policies

    Working with Parliamentarians in Africa on Investment Policies

    Without investment, sustainable development is impossible. Well-planned, high-quality foreign investment in developed and developing countries can help make current economic practices more sustainable.

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  • Guidebook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation at National and Sub-National Levels

    Guidebook on Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation at National and Sub-National Levels

    As adaptation finance and the number of adaptation activities and strategies being pursued by

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  • Private Sector Investment in a Changing Climate: Resilient rice value chain development in Uganda

    Private Sector Investment in a Changing Climate: Resilient rice value chain development in Uganda

    The Private Sector Investment in a Changing Climate (PSI–Climate) initiative aims to explore

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  • The Vulnerability of Pakistan's Water Sector to the Impacts of Climate Change: Identification of gaps and recommendations for action

    The Vulnerability of Pakistan's Water Sector to the Impacts of Climate Change: Identification of gaps and recommendations for action

    Already classified as water stressed, Pakistan could become a water scarce country by 2035 due to population growth, industrial development, rapid urbanization, greater saline intrusion and large-scale contamination of surface and ground water supplies. Climate change will place additional stress on this significant challenge.

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  • Institutional Context Analysis for the National Adaptation Planning Process

    Institutional Context Analysis for the National Adaptation Planning Process

    Globally, countries are transitioning from making the case for, and building awareness on, climate

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  • Supporting Energy Pricing Reform and Carbon Pricing Policies through Crediting

    Supporting Energy Pricing Reform and Carbon Pricing Policies through Crediting

    This project examined the role that policy crediting might play in increasing the ambition of energy

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  •  Morocco’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

    Morocco’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

    IISD worked with Morocco’s Ministry of Environment in the development of the country’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).

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