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Sustainable development is a broad, complex field with many overlapping, interconnected issues. It can be hard to stay on top of where progress is being made, what new issues are emerging, and how current events are shifting us in new directions. IISD’s experts have the insight you need.

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Carbon Pricing in the ASEAN Region: Moving from ambition to architecture

For ASEAN policy-makers, carbon pricing is no longer simply a domestic climate policy choice. It is increasingly linked to global economic integration, trade relationships, investment flows, and industrial competitiveness.

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June 19, 2026

Why the Future of Fresh Water Depends on How We Tell Its Story

When it comes to protecting fresh water like Lake Winnipeg, translating science into a compelling narrative is as important as the research itself.

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May 21, 2026

What Happened in Santa Marta?

What happened at the first international conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels? IISD experts share 7 takeaways and discuss what comes next.

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April 29, 2026

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Disaggregated Data is Essential to Leave No One Behind

If we are to truly achieve the SDGs—and be sure to"leave no one behind"—we need the kind of complete picture that only disaggregated data can provide.

Insight October 12, 2017

Why Innovation Is Critical to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

The SDGs are interconnected and complex. We are working to tackle that problem head-on while developing innovative approaches to achieving them.

Insight October 11, 2017

Canada Must Do More to Adapt to Climate Change, Environment Commissioner Says

Canada’s Commissioner for Environment and Sustainable Development, Julie Gelfand, just called on the federal government to do more to prepare Canadians for the impacts of climate change. We explore how that needs to happen.

Insight October 10, 2017

How Scientific Knowledge Can and Should Guide Policy-Making

Now that it is welcoming its first federal chief science advisor, Pauline Gerrard explains how Canada can best support and nurture its scientific community.

Insight October 6, 2017

Digging Out of Conflict: Can Artisanal Mining Support Peacebuilding?

We sit down with Alec Crawford to talk about the relationship between conflict and the artisanal mining sector, and to see if there are opportunities for it to operate alongside peacebuilding efforts.

Insight September 29, 2017

Hunger Is On the Rise: Here are three ways to stop it

Hunger levels are rising. Carin Smaller explores how technology could help tackle climate change and end hunger.

Insight September 29, 2017

China’s Largest Arbitration Institution Adopts its First Investment Arbitration Rules

China’s new rules for investment arbitration are not yet publicly available in English. We present an advanced draft of the rules, and explain why they matter.

Insight September 28, 2017

Conserving Biological Hotspots in Conflict-Affected Democratic Republic of Congo

Maiko National Park, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is so remote that the park’s northern edge can only be reached by a seven-day walk through thick, inhospitable forest.

Insight September 26, 2017

Mercury: What it does to humans and what humans need to do about it

As the very first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury takes place, we explain why mercury poses such a risk to humans and what IISD Experimental Lakes Area has discovered, and lay out what needs to happen next.

Insight September 23, 2017

Adaptation Urgent as Climate Change Impacts Proliferate

In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, there was debate about whether there was a need to talk about climate change adaptation.

Insight September 22, 2017

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Carbon Pricing in the ASEAN Region: Moving from ambition to architecture

Why the Future of Fresh Water Depends on How We Tell Its Story

What Happened in Santa Marta?

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