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Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-Benefits & Impacts of Energy Transformation on Resource Industries, Trade, Growth and Taxes
IISD President and CEO Scott Vaughan, along with several representatives from various environmental NGOs, contributed to this G20 Insights policy brief on the benefits and impacts of energy transformation.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Disaster preparedness and emergency management
This policy brief examines the potential implications of climate change for disaster preparedness and emergency management in Alberta’s cities, and presents options by which the resilience of these systems may be enhanced.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: The built environment
This policy brief looks at ways to cities can foster resilience in the built environment.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Electricity and information and communication technology infrastructure
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in energy and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as a contribution to building urban resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Water supply and sanitation systems
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in the water supply and sanitation system as a contribution to urban resilience building.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transportation infrastructure
This policy brief examines ways of building resilient urban transportation infrastructure to reduce exposure to natural hazards, decrease potential risks by implementing mitigation measures and enhance adaptive capacity in a changing climate.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transformational adaptation
This policy brief focuses on how cities can build resilience to climate change through transformational adaptation.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Urban ecosystems
This policy brief focuses on measures related to urban ecosystems that cities can take to build their resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Agriculture and food security
This policy brief focuses on measures related to agriculture and food security that cities can take to build their resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Economics and finance
This policy brief focuses on economic and financial measures to build cities' resilience to climate change.