Climate Change Mitigation
By implementing progressive low-emission development strategies that promote integrated clean energy solutions and broader sustainable development objectives, we can move towards climate change mitigation which requires a shift to low-carbon development.
Our experts help policy-makers identify and prioritize options for reducing emissions, such as through developing clean and renewable energy systems. We also support developing countries in identifying and accessing financing for low-carbon development. We do this by developing roadmaps for reform, engaging proactively with policy-makers and the stakeholders they engage with, providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of policy options for energy and carbon mitigation, and identifying means of implementation.
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The Economic Implications of Climate Change on Transportation Assets: An analysis framework
While economic analysis methods such as cost-benefit and economic impact assessments are well established, their application to climate change...
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Agriculture and Water: Reducing emissions and enhancing our resilience to climate change (TomorrowNow consultations paper)
In 2012 the Government of Manitoba released its environment plan, TomorrowNow.Its commitments include creating a green economy action plan and...
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The Path to Paris, Part 1: Bonn Climate Change Conference, March 10-14, 2014
In the first negotiating session of 2014, Parties met in Bonn under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2-4), tasked with identifying...
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Energy and the Built Environment: Reducing emissions, improving efficiency and enhancing our resilience to climate change (TomorrowNow consultations paper)
In 2012 the Government of Manitoba released its environment plan, TomorrowNow.Its commitments include creating a green economy action plan and...
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Financing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs): Leveraging private investment
An animated infographic for this paper can be found here.Sustainable financing of NAMAs in many cases ultimately requires blending funds from...
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Compliance with Flexibility: State approaches to reduce GHG emissions from existing power plants
In a June 2013 presidential memorandum, President Obama directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose carbon pollution...
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A Timbit with that Double-Double? Costs and emission reductions of renewed carbon policy in Alberta
This report has a sharable inforgraphic, click here to view.Alberta is set to renew its 2007 Specified Gas Emitter Regulation (SGER),...
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The Challenge of Extreme Events and their Impacts (Speech)
IISD President Scott Vaughan's keynote speech at the Canadian Climate Forum's Symposium on Extreme Weather and Adaptation held in Ottawa, ON on...
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Green Economy Assessment Report: Kenya
As part of its green economy work, UNEP is conducting green economy assessments for a number of countries.IISD (Jason Dion) contributed to the...
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Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada: Climate Policy Year in Review and Trends, 2013
Dave Sawyer and Philip Gass have developed this piece as a year in review and a look forward to trends emerging for 2014 with regards to climate...
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