Upcoming Events
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July 14, 2018
Celebrate IISD-ELA’s 50th Anniversary With All Your Alumni Friends
Have you worked at the world’s freshwater laboratory at any time during our fifty-year history? Join us to celebrate as part of our 50-year legacy of keeping fresh water clean around the world, and learn about what the future holds for IISD-ELA.
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May 4, 2018
Webinar | Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action
We hope you will be able to join us on May 4, 2018, for a webinar on Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action hosted by the Prairies Regional Adaptation Collaborative (PRAC)
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April 30 - May 1, 2018
Community Indicator Systems Training Workshop
IISD is convening a training workshop to build the capacity of communities to develop and use Community Indicator Systems to track progress on local priority issues in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals.
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April 23-27, 2018
Capacity-Building Workshops on the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool (SAVi) in Senegal
IISD is hosting a series of capacity-building workshops on the use of SAVi and the financing of sustainable infrastructure from April 23 to 27, 2018.
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April 23, 2018
Stakeholder Session on UNCITRAL ISDS Reform Process
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently engaged in a process to consider reform of investor-state arbitration (also known as investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS). ISDS is also one of the controversial issues being addressed in the NAFTA renegotiations, and driving the EU-led initiative to create a multilateral court for investment claims.Alongside the
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April 17, 2018
Webinar: UNCITRAL Process on ISDS Reform
IISD launched its Webinar Series on Investment Law and Policy with its first webinar April 17 at 9:00 a.m. ET in preparation for the upcoming meeting of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in New York.
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April 13, 2018
Expert meeting on International Trade and Development
This one-day meeting, Towards a Progressive Model for International Trade and Development: North- South Trade Relations and the Future of Multilateralism, aims to formulate policy recommendations for a “progressive model for international trade and development” with a view to influence future trade and development policies of the EU and beyond
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April 6-7, 2018
Sustainable Investment in Agriculture and Mining Workshop
Parliamentarians will gather in Arusha, Tanzania, April 6-7 to discuss the East African Community (EAC) Mining Bill 2017 and Model Contract for Farmland Investment.
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March 30, 2018
Big Data for Resilience (BD4R) Storybook Launch Event
Could a ‘resilience lens’ help us to better understand and use Big Data in international development?Experiences around the world suggest that Big Data is enabling larger, creative, and often socially-driven changes involving highly diverse stakeholders. But there is still a lot to learn about the links that exist between Big Data, resilience, and the achievement of long-term development goals,
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March 29, 2018
Webinar | Will Agricultural Growth Poles and Corridors Brighten Africa’s Future?
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 29, 2018 to discuss key challenges and opportunities of agricultural growth poles and corridors
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