Climate Change and Energy

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

When you support IISD’s Climate Change and Energy program, you help move economies toward a low-carbon-energy future

Led by David Sawyer, IISD’s Ottawa-based Climate Change and Energy (CC+E) program will advance the development of an energy strategy for Canada and North America that addresses climate change, while contributing to international efforts to enhance the capacity of all nations to address climate and energy issues through adaptation, risk reduction and resilience to change.

Contributions raised for this area will help facilitate the exchange of ideas and perspectives by engaging key decision-makers and policy-influencers as they prepare for the impacts of climate change—both nationally and internationally. At present, IISD’s CC+E 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

• Exploring how best to link existing and emerging regional climate change regulatory frameworks

Our work with the Climate Risk Screening Tool (CRiSTAL)—Adaptation and Livelihoods continues to increase the capacity of development-assistance organizations to incorporate climate change adaptation into the design and implementation of their projects and programs.

Our CC+E team is also involved with work for the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, as well as influential private sector firms, providing updates on relevant domestic and international developments.

For more information, please visit our Climate Change and Energy website.