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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Obama's Climate Change Strategy: Details, response and implications for Canada
In June 2013 President Obama announced his administration's plan for dealing with the issue of climate change over his second term.This policy...
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Climate and Energy Policy Adaptation - IISD's Mark Halle comments on whether the framework for the European Union's post-2020 climate and energy policy is a path to sustainable growth
Concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been measured for the first time at over 400 parts per million at the reference base station of...
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Bonn Climate Change Conference: On the road to Warsaw without a map
Just a month after parties met in Bonn for a second session of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2), negotiators came together for their...
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Promise by U.S. and China to phase-out HFCs a welcome step to reduce climate pollutants
On June 8, 2013, United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to cut production of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HFCs)...
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Comments to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on the Draft Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, 2013-16 (Speech Notes)
IISD's VP climate, energy and partnerships comments to Canada's Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on its draft federal...
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Scott Vaughan, IISD President and CEO, keynote address at Ontario Climate Consortium's First Climate Change Research Symposium in Toronto, May 13, 2013 (Speech Notes)
President and CEO Scott Vaughan's keynote address to the inaugural symposium of the Ontario Climate Consortium, 2013.
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Greenhouse gas emissions baseline projection
Development of greenhouse gas emission baseline projections, or business-as-usual scenarios, are critical for the assessment of nationally...
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Republic of Rwanda: Greenhouse gas emissions baseline projection
Development of greenhouse gas emission baseline projections, or business-as-usual scenarios, are critical for the assessment of nationally...
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Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Regulations: The implications of alternative proposals
Canada's oil and gas industry is currently negotiating with the provincial and federal governments over new greenhouse gas regulations that will be...
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Developing Financeable NAMAs: A Practitioner's Guide
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are fast becoming the climate finance vehicle of choice to help developing countries transition...
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