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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North American Energy Integration: Assessing oil and gas policy issues ahead of NAFTA renegotiation
Mexico, Canada and the United States stand to benefit from increasing energy sector interconnectedness and coordination. What key environmental and fiscal policy areas related to oil and gas development provide opportunities for further harmonization?
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Can We Measure Resilience? Reducing Agriculture’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
Thirty-six indicators make up this framework to promote resilience to climate change impacts and vulnerabilities in Canadian agriculture.
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Building Global Governance for 'Climate Refugees'
IISD President-CEO Scott Vaughan and IISD Board Member Lloyd Axworthy, along with several representatives from various environmental NGOs, contributed to this G20 Insights policy brief on recognizing that forced displacement due to climate change is increasing.
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The End of Coal Mining in South Wales: Lessons learned from industrial transformation
The decline of coal mining in South Wales has important lessons for policy-makers and civil society grappling with the challenges of transition—what can be learned from this experience?
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Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-Benefits & Impacts of Energy Transformation on Resource Industries, Trade, Growth and Taxes
IISD President and CEO Scott Vaughan, along with several representatives from various environmental NGOs, contributed to this G20 Insights policy brief on the benefits and impacts of energy transformation.
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Facing the Climate Change Conundrum: A pessimist’s and an optimist’s perspective
We asked a “pessimist” and an “optimist” to share their hypothetical views about climate change futures.
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As U.S. and Canadian Climate Policies Diverge, How Do We Ensure Canada’s Competitiveness?
With relatively new administrations on both sides of the border, the United States and Canada have staked out opposing views on climate change. That has environmentalists and businesses worried. This has potentially damaging consequences for Canada’s trade competitiveness.
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Jobs and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition: Perspectives from Cumberland County
This commentary begins in Cumberland County, in Northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, where new jobs are emerging in the renewable energy sector. It argues that the shifts underway in Cumberland County are representative of a larger transition, as job losses in the fossil fuel industry are replaced by growth in renewable energy.
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Considerations in a Comprehensive Approach to Canadian Climate Policy
This commentary outlines the key elements of an effective policy in the implementation of the pan-Canadian Framework.
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China's Low-Carbon Revolution
Since the US election, many are speculating about the ascendancy of Beijing as a global leader both on trade and climate policy. In reality, however, China had been moving forward on a comprehensive climate mitigation and adaptation pathway well before the US election.
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