Climate Change and Energy

Our Climate Change campaign goal is CDN $2.5 million. These funds will enhance and enrich the efforts of IISD's Climate Change and Energy program, which promotes policy responses required to move economies towards a low-carbon energy future and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

Climate change is a major priority for IISD because it affects the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and how we heat our homes, in addition to our means of transportation, our methods of doing business and our governance practices at home and abroad.

Prime examples of current IISD Climate Change and Energy projects include examining domestic and international priorities on post-2012 climate policy, developing tools to help project managers address adaptation in vulnerable communities, assessing how market-based mechanisms can advance sustainable development priorities and achieve emission reductions and exploring how best to link existing and emerging regional climate change regulatory frameworks.

For a Sustainable Future: The Water Innovation Centre

Starting with the Lake Winnipeg Watershed, the Water Innovation Centre's work will demonstrate sustainable solutions in Canada, the U. S. and worldwide. Centre staff and associates will demonstrate how restoring natural environments while building local institutional capacity can provide cost-effective alternatives to hard infrastructure investments.

As a result, society will learn how to safeguard the ecological goods and services of its landscapes. In doing so, we can ensure an abundance of vibrant marshes, ponds, native plants and wildlife along its lakes, rivers and streams in the near future and for generations to come.

• IISD Water Innovation Centre Proposal (PDF - 2 mb)
• IISD Water Innovation Centre's Team Biographies (PDF - 2 mb)
• IISD Water Innovation Centre's Red River Basin Project Appendix (PDF - 4.3 mb)

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