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A Fair Shake: How investment policy can support sustainable development
IISD experts are pushing for reform and offering their expertise to ensure good policy isn't held back by the threat of arbitration.
Multilateral Regulatory Regimes and Plant Breeding
This policy brief reviews some of the issues that developing country governments should consider as they review national seed laws.
How Cities Can Ensure the Post-COVID World is Green, Fair, and Resilient
What if our new normal included better health and stronger communities? This is what's driving cities across the world to forge a green recovery.
Stockholm and the Birth of Environmental Diplomacy
A 1972 UN conference began modern international cooperation on the environment. What lessons should we take from it amid mounting global crises?
The Proposed Multilateral Framework on Investment Facilitation
This paper examines the proposed multilateral framework on investment facilitation and how it relates to existing trade and investment agreements.
IISD Annual Report 2019–2020
The work of IISD is even more critical in this time of global crisis. This year we asked: what does COVID-19 mean for the future of sustainable development and for IISD’s longer-term strategy?
Making the Trading System Work for the SDGs: 10 questions for the next WTO Director-General
Trade, if well managed, can be a powerful tool for development. But it must not stand in the way of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
sNAPshot | Strategic Communications in Peru’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process
This NAP Global Network sNAPshot country brief explores how Peru is using communications to advance their NAP process and climate action more broadly.
Don’t let green recovery become a political hot potato
Ensuring a resilient recovery is not just a question of what’s good for the economy or what’s good for the environment. It is now an issue of national competitiveness.
Part 2 – How Can India’s Energy Sector Recover Sustainably from COVID-19?
From IISD and CEEW, Part 2 of a three-part commentary series takes a deep dive into how India’s energy sector is coping with the impacts of COVID-19 and what this means for the sustainable energy transition.