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Trudeau's India Visit: How India and Canada can achieve ambitious climate targets

"As members of the G20, both India and Canada committed to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption in 2009. Both countries have made progress on the ground."

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The Economic Times

February 21, 2018

Prepare to Lead ISA But Look Within Too

"In fact, according to the 2016 data released by the International Institute for Sustainable Development last month, India gave just 0.8 per cent of its electricity subsidies for distributed solutions, while coal, oil and gas transmission and distribution received about $20 billion, with much of these being price support subsidies for artificially low tariffs."

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The Pioneer

February 20, 2018

Global trade negotiators meet in Kenya to sharpen skills

"It also emerged that many developing countries are now cancelling or renegotiating investment treaties and multilateral trade agreements because they were done when their negotiators had little negotiating capacity, according to Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder,head of Economic Law & Policy at the International Institute of Sustainable Development."

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Coast Week

February 12, 2018

NAP meet to advance planning

"According to IISD's director resilience Anne Hammill, the network of individuals and organisations came together to help developing countries in particular to advance national adaptation planning processes."

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The Fiji Times

February 9, 2018

Robots and mines. Welcome to the future.

"As part of this shift, The International Institute for Sustainable Development, for example, estimates that driverless technology will increases mining output by 15 to 20%, while decreasing fuel and maintenance costs by 10 to 15% and 8% respectively."

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The Asia Miner

February 8, 2018

Bus service convenient for just 53% of city residents, local study determines

"Barely half of this city's residents live within easy access of a Winnipeg Transit bus route, says a study conducted by a local independent think tank promoting sustainable solutions. The report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found 53 per cent of Winnipeggers have convenient access to a transit route, while 33 per cent have inconvenient access."

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Winnipeg Free Press

February 8, 2018

Les lacs expérimentaux ont 50 ans et lancent un concours pour les jeunes Canadiens

« Depuis que nous avons adopté une nouvelle direction, nous avons élargi notre travail. Nos recherches demeurent notre priorité absolue, mais depuis 2014, on fait beaucoup plus d'éducation », explique Pauline Gerrard.

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Radio-Canada

February 7, 2018

Experimental Lakes Area celebrates 50th anniversary

"Scientists at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) are celebrating a significant anniversary this year as the scientific laboratory turns 50 years old."

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CBC Thunder Bay

February 7, 2018

IISD-ELA research shows nitrogen removal doesn’t decrease bloom size

"A study within a study that has been ongoing for almost half a century at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) freshwater research facility provides a clearer picture on how to deal with algal blooms."

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Kenora Daily Miner

January 30, 2018

Unions should be focused on upgrading skills of workers, not resisting automation

"The trend could eventually wipe out up to 70 per cent of remaining mine jobs, according to a 2016 report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg."

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Globe and Mail

January 28, 2018

Artisanal, small-scale mining explodes amid rising prices

"The Intergovernmental Forum (IGF) on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development estimated a more than doubling in the number of artisanal and small-scale miners from six-million in 1993 to 13-million in 1999."

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Mining Weekly

January 22, 2018

Benefits of Aadhaar Unclear: RBI Researchers

"There are contradicting cost-benefit analyses about Aadhaar, the paper stated. The government, in a paper put out by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, claims that till date it has saved about Rs 14,672 crore using Aadhaar through DBT schemes. But a Canadian non-profit, International Institute of Sustainable Development, has claimed that the government has incurred a loss of `97 crore"

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National Herald

January 20, 2018

Développement durable: le Sénégal veut opter pour la méthodologie SAVI

"Le gouvernement du Sénégal, à travers le ministère des Mines et de la Géologie en collaboration avec la Fondation Maya et l’ International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), a entamé, hier, des discussions sur les infrastructures durables et la méthodologie SAVI."

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SeneNews

January 19, 2018

Billion-dollar nitrogen reduction efforts may have minimal impact on toxic algae blooms: study

"Costly efforts to reduce toxic algae blooms on Lake Winnipeg by controlling the amount of nitrogen flowing into the water could have little to no impact, according to the results of a decades-long study. Scientists working in the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario conducted a whole-ecosystem experiment on one lake, beginning in 1969."

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CBC Manitoba

January 18, 2018

Myth of Subsidy Cut

"During the same period, carbon-emitter fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas remained the largest beneficiaries. While subsidies to renewable energy increased by over Rs 6,700 crore ($1.05 billion), they accounted for less than 10 percent of the energy subsidies of the central government, according to this report by the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), a think-tank, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a think-tank and ICF India, a consultancy."

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The Day After

January 15, 2018

Like Oceans, Freshwater Is Also Acidifying

"Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario."

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Scientific American

January 11, 2018

Economic costs of pollution simply sickening

"In April of 2017, the International Institute for Sustainable Development released a report (whose methodology was endorsed by the Conference Board of Canada) providing an estimate of the costs of pollution on ordinary citizens and families. Their conclusion is shocking, although not altogether unexpected: pollution costs Canadian families, businesses and governments up to tens of billions of dollars annually at least!"

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Terrace Standard

January 11, 2018

The Mother Of All Disruptions

"Coal miners, steel, oil and gas, and construction workers are also looking at a tenuous future. The Canada-based International Institute for Sustainable Development predicts that autonomous long-distance-haul trains, automated drilling and tunnel-boring systems, and other technological job-slayers will reach their peak rates of deployment in the next ten to 15 years and replace 40–80 per cent of mine workers."

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Swarajya

January 10, 2018

Nitrogen reduction not the path

“We have been researching the role of artificial nitrogen in algal blooms for almost 50 years now, and these latest results clearly demonstrate that ceasing nitrogen loading into lakes has little effect on the size or duration of algal blooms,” said Scott Higgins, lead author on the paper.

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Manitoba Cooperator

January 8, 2018

Du pétrole sera déversé délibérément dans un lac près de Kenora

"Une équipe de chercheurs déversera du pétrole dans un lac de la Région des lacs expérimentaux (RLE) afin d'étudier l'impact sur les poissons d'eau douce."

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Radio-Canada

January 2, 2018