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Joint Statement on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises: History and latest developments in the Informal Working Group

This brief outlines the history and developments of MSME-related discussions in the World Trade Organization (WTO) context, looking specifically at MSME-related issues at the WTO as well as in other forums and contexts.

Report May 6, 2020

Resilient Recovery: Using climate adaptation plans to build back better

Though focused on climate change, National Adaptation Plans offer important assessments of the risks a country faces and can be valuable in devising comprehensive pandemic response strategies.

Insight May 5, 2020

How India Can Make Its Economic Recovery Clean And Sustainable

In reviving its economy post-COVID-19, India could turn a crisis into an opportunity by resetting its energy spending to favour clean energy, enabling citizens to continue enjoying the unprecedented clean air and blue skies bestowed by the lockdown.

IISD in the news May 5, 2020

Code Shift: The environmental significance of the 2022 amendments to the Harmonized System

This report explains how recent amendments to the harmonized coding system used to track international merchandise trade will help improve the monitoring of trade in both environmentally sensitive products and environmental goods.

Report May 5, 2020

Building Back Better Is the Right Thing to Do. It Also Makes Good Economic Sense.

Canada must focus on building back better in order to set us on a path toward net-zero emissions and even greater economic growth.

Insight May 4, 2020

We Can Prevent a COVID-19 Hunger Crisis if We Look Back and Learn

The world now faces the risk of a dramatic rise in hunger, barely 12 years after the devastating food price crisis. What can be learned from the past?

Insight May 4, 2020

Risk & Return: Adaptation in the Developing World

When we focus on developing countries, only 19 percent of climate finance from OECD countries to developing countries goes toward adaptation. While this is better than the global average, it’s still far below what has been promised and what is needed.

IISD in the news May 4, 2020