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Trade and Climate after COVID-19: Subsidies, Stimulus, and Energy Price

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments to rethink their economic policies, systems, and agendas, while responding with stimulus packages, which sometimes include fossil fuel subsidies. The webinar will discuss global trade policy responses and the broader climate and environment policy conversations taking place now.

Webinar May 28, 2020

Covid-19: Emergency measures and investor-state arbitration claims

The unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has re-kindled debates around the appropriateness of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in bi- and multi-lateral investment treaties.

IISD in the news May 27, 2020

Banana sector embracing sustainability

Voluntary sustainability standards are increasingly being used by banana producers as challenges including disease and climate change mount.

IISD in the news May 27, 2020

Fisheries Subsidies Video Series

As part of its work to support a meaningful WTO agreement to discipline harmful fisheries subsidies, the IISD has produced a series of six videos to summarize the key issues to be resolved across the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations.

Video May 27, 2020

Join The World's Freshwater Laboratory to Launch a Field Season like No Other

Pour yourself a glass of wine and join IISD Experimental Lakes Area for this hour-long exploration of how we are managing to stay functional in a new normal.

Event May 27, 2020

This Coal Plant Endangers Forests, Wildlife, People. And India Doesn’t Even Need It, Experts Say

The price of solar-powered electricity has reduced since the Khurja power plant was conceived, and is now 14% lower than that of coal-fired power, making India the cheapest renewable energy market in the Asia-Pacific region.

IISD in the news May 26, 2020

Is Palm Oil Bad? The Consequences On Wildlife And The Environment

With more and more people turning vegan for animal wellbeing and the climate, questions concerning the planet’s most consumed vegetable oil are on the rise.

IISD in the news May 26, 2020

Financing COVID-19 Stimulus: Will high levels of public debt come back to haunt us?

The majority of COVID-related stimulus financing comes from government borrowing. Can this debt be paid back? Is it even meant to be?

Insight May 26, 2020

How to raise an easy $1 billion per day for the Covid-19 recovery

A temporary tax hike on gasoline and diesel is one of the fairest, greenest ways to fund post-pandemic economic stimulus packages.

IISD in the news May 26, 2020

[FR] Mining Tax Policy Responses to COVID-19

Join IGF and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) for a webinar exploring mining tax policy responses to the COVID-19 health crisis (in French).

Webinar May 26, 2020

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