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Clean Fuel Standard: Summary of stakeholder written comments on the Discussion Paper
The Government of Canada published the Clean Fuel Standard: Discussion Paper to seek stakeholder feedback and received comments from across economic sectors, environmental organizations, academia and the public.
India Energy Subsidy Briefing October 2017
The India Energy Subsidy Briefing covers issues related to energy subsidies. October's edition included topics of petroleum products, a discussion of pricing policy for diesel and petrol, a new electricity subsidy scheme, and price hikes for liquefied petroleum gas and kerosene.
Case Study: What is the true cost of coal in Central Java?
PLN expects to expand coal power capacity in Central Java, which is in the centre of Indonesia's economic corridor. But are PLN plans realistic and what will this cost—not just the cost to rate-payers, but also in terms of impacts on climate change and air pollution? Are there alternatives to these developments?
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (brochure)
Want to know more about IISD Experimental Lakes Area—the world's freshwater laboratory? Take a look at our brochure!
The Adaptive Watershed: Training program for inclusive, ecosystem-based watershed management
The Adaptive Watershed (TAW) is watershed-based ecosystem management that explicitly addresses the need to understand and manage for a rapidly changing climate, while also incorporating the needs of vulnerable communities and women.
IISD Experimental Lakes Area 2016-2017 Annual Report
In this year's annual report, we explore how IISD Experimental Lakes Area is innovating in the arena of freshwater science, to improve its own research, but also limnology across the world.
From Bali to Marrakech: A decade of international climate negotiations
This book builds on IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) coverage of a decade of climate change negotiations from the meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Bali, Indonesia in 2007 to Marrakech, Morocco in 2016.
Investment for Sustainable Development: Views from the Global South
This brief presents the priorities for investment policy-making from a developing country perspective.
Tracking the SDGs in Canadian Cities: SDG 1
The first brief in this series provides an overview of SDG 1—ending poverty in all its forms everywhere—across cities in Canada.
Towards an Indicative List of FDI Sustainability Characteristics
Based on a review of 150 instruments, ranging from international investment agreements to codes of multinational enterprises, this paper identifies ten core characteristics of sustainable FDI and twenty emerging sustainable FDI characteristics widely accepted across ten stakeholder groups