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  • Report
    Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management: Assessing policy and institutional support in Uganda

    Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management: Assessing policy and institutional support in Uganda

    This report looks at how Uganda’s various institutions and policies incorporate climate change and gender considerations into planning, budgeting and monitoring in the water sector.  Read More
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    Kerosene to Solar PV Subsidy Swap: The business case for redirecting subsidy expenditure from kerosene to off-grid solar

    Kerosene to Solar PV Subsidy Swap: The business case for redirecting subsidy expenditure from kerosene to off-grid solar

    If kerosene subsidies are being gradually removed, can a share of the subsidy savings not be reinvested in helping the most vulnerable households access electric lighting through off-grid solar technologies? This paper explores the idea of a “kerosene to solar subsidy swap” or a “subsidy swap.” Read More
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    Getting on Target: Accelerating energy access through fossil fuel subsidy reform

    Getting on Target: Accelerating energy access through fossil fuel subsidy reform

    How can reforming fossil fuel subsidies accelerate universal energy access (SDG 7)? This paper reviews the financial and practical implications of fossil fuel subsidies for SDG 7. Read More
  • Guidebook
    IGF Guidance for Governments: Local content policies

    IGF Guidance for Governments: Local content policies

    This new IGF guidance document aims to help resource-rich countries find more sustainable and inclusive economic solutions, fostering stronger linkages between mineral resources and the rest of the economy. Read More
  • Blog
    How NGOs Can Survive in the Age of Distrust

    How NGOs Can Survive in the Age of Distrust

    For the fourth year in a row, Transparify has given IISD its highest rating for financial disclosure of donors. Read More
  • Blog
    Voices and Choices: Laudato Si at three years

    Voices and Choices: Laudato Si at three years

    Voices from around the globe recently came together to celebrate and put into action Laudato Si, Pope Francis's call for dialogue on the radical changes needed to repair our earth. Read More
  • Report
    Developing a Progressive Agenda for Reform of International Investment Law: Canadian perspectives

    Developing a Progressive Agenda for Reform of International Investment Law: Canadian perspectives

    This report presents the ideas posited by various Canadian stakeholders in an IISD expert meeting on a progressive agenda on investment, held in Ottawa, Canada, June 13, 2018. Read More
  • Briefing Note
    Investment Facilitation: Making sense of concepts, discussions and processes

    Investment Facilitation: Making sense of concepts, discussions and processes

    This background note provides an overview of discussions on investment at the global level in order to better understand and place the current discussions on investment facilitation.  Read More
  • Blog
    ALivE: A new tool for Ecosystem-based Adaptation

    ALivE: A new tool for Ecosystem-based Adaptation

    There’s an urgent need to prepare ecosystems for climate change impacts. Healthy ecosystems are critical for sustaining livelihoods. They also increase our capacity to adapt to climate change. Read More
  • Blog
    Let's talk, not bicker, about Canada's energy future

    Let's talk, not bicker, about Canada's energy future

    A clean energy transition requires Canadians to find consensus and act. Read More