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Scaling nature-based solutions for Kigali's climate resilience

KIGALI, November 29, 2024 —Kigali is embarking on a new endeavour to harness solutions readily found in nature to address the city’s most pressing climate hazards, particularly flash floods, landslides, and soil erosion. Designed and implemented in collaboration with the City of Kigali and local organizations, Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) is a three-year project aiming to strengthen the resilience of 975,000 residents while promoting gender equality, social inclusion and biodiversity conservation.
Press release November 28, 2024

The Pivotal Role of Sustainability for Ukraine’s Reconstruction

This webinar, hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Ukrainian Climate Office, will discuss how to incorporate sustainability into Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction plans and share recommendations for implementation.
Webinar November 28, 2024

A Municipal Perspective on the Value of Natural Infrastructure

This webinar will showcase examples the cost-effectiveness of natural infrastructure from a municipal perspective. Focusing on what municipalities need—what evidence and numbers they rely on, and what tools and planning processes are required to ensure that natural infrastructure is assessed alongside traditional infrastructure for cost-effectiveness.
Webinar November 26, 2024

AQUA-Pearl Stakeholder Workshop

This report outlines the objectives, discussions, and key takeaways from the AQUA-Pearl project's stakeholder workshop held in Fiji in November 2024.
Workshop November 25, 2024

How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can't seem to quit

In 2022, as Japan grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from the Ukraine war, the government rolled out subsidies for petroleum, gas and electricity as short-term measures. As 2024 enters its home stretch, those subsidies are still being renewed or extended—putting a drag on the country's decarbonization push in the process.
IISD in the news November 24, 2024

Concern as climate talks stalls on fossil fuels pledge

The failure of UN climate negotiations to double down on a global pledge to move away from planet-heating fossil fuels on Sunday was decried by experts as a "worrying" setback to global progress on curbing warming.
IISD in the news November 24, 2024