Events
Through conferences, webinars, workshops, and panel discussions, IISD actively engages some of the world's leading thinkers on various topics of sustainable development.
Past events
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Weathering the Waters: Building climate resilience that pays off
Join us to explore Canada’s adaptation progress, the rising costs of delay (water, floods, drought), and new ways to finance resilience.
Natural Solutions for Water Security: Canada’s Policy Path Forward
This 2-day forum aims to advance strategic priorities and define practical next steps to accelerate the adoption of natural infrastructure as the new normal.
Nature-Based Approaches to Water Storage and Flood Mitigation
This webinar explores how natural water retention is a key strategy to rebuild storage capacity and improve climate resilience in Prairie watersheds.
Funding the Future: Enabling natural infrastructure through federal programs
IISD's Funding the Future webinar highlights how federal programs can better support nature-based solutions—and why doing so matters now more than ever.
A Municipal Perspective on the Value of Natural Infrastructure
This webinar will showcase examples the cost-effectiveness of natural infrastructure from a municipal perspective. Focusing on what municipalities need—what evidence and numbers they rely on, and what tools and planning processes are required to ensure that natural infrastructure is assessed alongside traditional infrastructure for cost-effectiveness.
Panel: Managing Costs and Risks of Water Service Delivery Through Natural Infrastructure: Examples from the Prairies
How natural infrastructure can help support cost-effective water service delivery and manage climate and other risks to water services.
Flood and Drought: Natural infrastructure as a dual defense
This webinar brings together experts to build momentum around natural infrastructure to help with not only flood, but drought, too. We will discuss how drought and flood are anticipated to impact the Canadian Prairies in the future and share examples of natural infrastructure in practice, wrapping up with discussion and audience questions.
World Water Week Talkshow: Stacked Benefits: Inclusion, Stewardship and Cooperation for Water Security
Join IISD's President and CEO Patricia Fuller at World Water Week 2024 as she discusses the need for inclusive approaches in global water-related goals.
Water Security through Nature-Based Solutions: From Theory to Practice
A session at World Water Week 2024 where IISD will be joined by other experts to discuss two important aspects to nature-based solution projects: roles and capacity.
Strengthening Natural Infrastructure Through Public Policy
Highlighting efforts in public policy to strengthen nature-based solutions and opportunities in natural infrastructure.