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State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standards and Poverty Reduction
This report explores how sustainability standards can help reduce poverty and recommendations for policy makers, buyers, and VSS bodies.
Protecting the Right to Tax Mining Income
This practice note is a tool to help resource-rich governments protect their tax base from risks associated with tax treaties.
IISD Trade and Sustainability Review, Volume 1, Issue 4, November 2021
This fourth edition of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review covers a range of timely policy issues related to trade and sustainable development in the lead-up to the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference.
A Business Case for Investment in Canadian Community-Based Water Monitoring
The time to coordinate and fund Canada's vibrant culture of Community-based Water Monitoring is NOW.
Notes on a Field Season: IISD Experimental Lakes Area Annual Report 2020-2021
This year, the world's freshwater laboratory's annual report brings you a twist on one of our iconic yellow field notebooks.
How Timor-Leste Is Using the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process to Scale Up Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA)
This case study discusses how the Timor-Leste government has adopted Ecosystem-based adaptation as a guiding principle in its NAP process to connect ecosystem protection and climate action. It will also share lessons for other countries seeking to use the NAP process to mainstream and implement EbA.
Inclusive Framework Agreement on the Global Minimum Tax: Recommendations to address stabilized fiscal conditions
This brief provides recommendations on how the OECD could design model legislation for a global minimum tax to address stabilized tax incentives.
Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Policy: Practice, evidence, and ways forward
Gender-related provisions are becoming more common in trade agreements. To what extent do they help—or hinder—efforts to achieve gender equality?
Farming the Future: Agriculture and climate change on the Canadian Prairies
This report looks at climate risks to, and impacts from, Canadian Prairie agriculture, and solutions to help producers and increase climate action.
Renegotiating Sustainable Agricultural Concession Agreements: The case of Liberia
This Q&A is intended to highlight how concession agreements and the laws governing them were used to enhance sustainable investment in agriculture in Liberia.