Building Institutional Capacities for Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Action in Jamaica
This project aims to build institutional capacities to integrate gender considerations into climate finance programming in Jamaica.
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A decade of failing Lake Winnipeg
Meeting phosphorus license limits at Winnipeg’s North End sewage treatment plant? Neither difficult nor complicated. Just a simple problem that has become so mired in competing agendas and so obscured by decades of political showmanship that it’s now hard to sort out evidence from ideology.
IISD Staff and Board of Directors Welcome Michelle Edkins as New Chair
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has a new Chair of its Board of Directors, effective today.
Building Bridges to a Just Transition: Connecting India's challenges and solutions with international experience
This brief provides an initial assessment of priorities and opportunities for research and information sharing on just transition in India based on a review of international literature and expert interviews.
Parliamentarian Action #5 | Alternative Approaches to Collateral to Increase Women’s Access to Rural and Agricultural Finance
The fifth virtual dialogue of the Parliamentarians Actions for Gender Equality and Resilient Food Systems in Response to Covid-19 series brought together parliamentarians, financial institutions, and other main stakeholders to discuss the importance of developing alternative approaches for risk sharing and management that can increase women’s access to finance through alternative collateral requirements.
Natural Resources report spells danger ahead if we don’t get ready for climate catastrophe
Crumbling infrastructure, billions of dollars of annual costs, and frequent extreme weather events are just a handful of the disasters spelled out for the country’s future in a landmark report that says the time has come to brace for impact.
Virtual Workshop for Government Officials Eastern and Southern Africa
The main goals of this virtual training workshop are to help government officials understand the legal and policy risks and potential benefits of different business models in agriculture, with a focus on large-scale agribusiness investments—this is while applying the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) to better analyze legal tools used.
Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2021
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD's flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
The Why and How of Investment Dispute Prevention and Management Agencies – Sharing country experiences
This webinar on dispute prevention and management agencies built on the research findings of a forthcoming IISD publication by Jonathan Bonnitcha and Zoe Phillips Williams, and aimed to inform policymakers as they consider alternatives and complements to investor-state dispute settlement.