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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".
Leveraging the National Adaptation Plan Process for Adaptation Communications
This report explores countries' experiences leveraging the outputs and results of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to develop Adaptation Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Innovative Financial Instruments and Their Potential to Finance Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries
This report explores the range of innovative financial instruments that could be used to scale up financing for adaptation and lessons for their use in developing countries.
Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of River Restoration in Greece
This economic valuation demonstrates the benefits of river restoration in the Greek region of Thessaly.
Trade-Related Policy Measures to Reduce Plastic Pollution: Building on the state of play
This report looks at the trade-related plastic pollution-reduction measures notified by World Trade Organization (WTO) members in order to provide inspiration for further actions and international cooperation options.