Insights
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.
Highlights
Why Gender Inclusion Must Drive the Just Energy Transition
As the global clean energy transition gains momentum, one principle becomes increasingly clear: we cannot talk about equity without addressing gender. And yet, for many women in South Africa, the energy transition feels divorced from their everyday realities.
Let’s Get Serious About Tackling the Global Scourge of Plastic Pollution
The treaty that surfaces from the UN International Negotiating Committee must reduce plastic getting into aquatic ecosystems at all points along the supply chain.
How State-Owned Power Companies Are Impacting the Energy Transition in Emerging Economies
State-owned power companies control about half of the world's power production capacity and, in many countries, hold the keys to ensuring energy security and a successful energy transition.