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Enabling Climate Risk Management Along Agricultural Value Chains: Insights from the rice value chain in Uganda
This briefing note proposes a framework of core functions for climate risk management (CRM) along agricultural value chains and highlights the role of service providers in supporting CRM efforts.
Building on Momentum: Recommendations from the GSI for Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform at the G20
This policy brief examines the progress made to phase-out inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel subsidies, the increasing momentum behind subsidy reform in international processes and the steps needed to ensure that the commitment is met.
Smart-Sourced Fuel Products
Many different types of “waste” or under-used plant materials can be turned into value-added bioenergy fuel products. This brochure, available in both English and French, focuses on such materials available in Manitoba, Canada, including agricultural residues, forestry residues, grassland plants and wetland plants.
Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 7, Issue 2, May 2016
Investment Treaty News (ITN), published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), is a quarterly journal on international investment law and policy and sustainable development.
Manitoba Prairie Lakes: In-lake remediation treatment summary
This is a summary of a comprehensive research study (Manitoba Prairie Lakes: Eutrophication and In-Lake Remediation Treatments Literature Review) in which IISD examines in-lake remediation treatments.
Financing Development With Fossil Fuel Subsidies: The reallocation of Indonesia's gasoline and diesel subsidies in 2015
This report investigates how fuel subsidy reform and reallocation in Indonesia have been a major step forward in improving public expenditure.
Supporting Energy Pricing Reform and Carbon Pricing Policies Through Crediting
This study examines the role that policy crediting might play in increasing the mitigation impact of energy pricing reform and carbon pricing policies.
Making Subsidy Reform Work for Women in Nigeria
Kerosene subsidies in Nigeria are inefficient and wasteful—but will kerosene subsidy reform disproportionately affect women, due its primary use as a household lighting and cooking fuel? This policy brief explores principles for making subsidy reform work for women in Nigeria.
Roadmap for China: Using Green Securitisation, Tax Incentives and Credit Enhancements to Scale Green Bonds
This paper provides specific actions for China’s policymakers to put in place instruments and incentives for green bonds, with a particular focus on how to grow a green securitisation market in China that can access international capital. Specific actions for China draw on domestic and international experience.