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Rethinking National Investment Laws
Explore the evolution of national investment laws in our comprehensive report. It analyzes 70 laws, identifies their seven main functions, and explores how they've been shaped by policy objectives and international standards. Gain insights into reforming these laws to meet today's challenges. A must-read for policy-makers in sustainable investment governance.
Enhancing Biodiversity Co-Benefits From Nature-Based Solutions
This technical report provides a set of recommendations to help plan, design, and implement nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation that enhance biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.
Watts in Store
This report explores how energy storage can help the South African power crisis and why grid-located batteries emerge as a strategic priority.
Global Market Report: Palm oil prices and sustainability
This report unpacks market trends in the palm oil sector and examines the role of sustainability standards in ensuring farmers receive fair incomes and adopt sustainable practices.
Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring: Benefits for decision making
This report explores the potential benefits and costs of introducing automated sensor systems, such as networked instruments producing real-time data, into a water monitoring initiative.
Setting the Pace: The economic case for managing the decline of oil and gas production in Canada
This report examines how global demand trends and increasingly volatile markets will impact Canada's oil and gas sector.
The Future of Resource Taxation: 10 policy ideas to mobilize mining revenues
A handbook for policy-makers that presents a menu of innovative fiscal measures to strengthen revenue collection in the mining sector.
Addressing Loss and Damage
Through a systematic review of NAP documents and interviews with key stakeholders, this report showcases the role NAP processes can play in minimizing and addressing loss and damage.
Summary of the 2022 IISD Forum on Natural Infrastructure Performance and Metrics
Participants discussed key challenges, opportunities, and technical considerations to building a better business case for natural infrastructure across Canada's Prairies.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Mechanisms and the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment
IISD submission with CIEL and ClientEarth to the UN Special Rapporteur report "Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment".