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IISD Best Practices Series: Terminating a Bilateral Investment Treaty

This paper examines recent state practice in bilateral investment treaty (BIT) terminations and related drafting, along with presenting options for states interested in addressing their stock of older BITs through termination and renegotiation.

Guide March 25, 2020

Expert Consultation with Financial Service Providers: Understanding the sustainability issues agricultural producers need to consider to be investment ready and access finance

This paper presents the results of a consultation that IISD's State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) conducted with over 50 financial service providers in order to better understand the risks and sustainability issues that they consider relevant when assessing finance requests from agricultural producers.

Report March 24, 2020

Who are the 2,000 people that are afraid to get tested for COVID-19?

One metre, that is the standard set by the WHO for social distancing. Yet there are people who live in dilapidated squalors, crammed together in dirty rooms with people lying together like sardines in a can.

IISD in the news March 22, 2020

Exploring the Trade Impacts of Fossil Fuel Subsidies

How do fossil fuel subsidies affect competitiveness and trade in various markets, and what is the likely scale of such impacts? This paper sheds light on the relevance of fossil fuel subsidies from an international trade policy perspective, in particular for the WTO.

Report March 22, 2020

Climate Change, the Natural Environment, and the Green Transition

IISD is driving policy change at the intersection of trade, climate change, and the natural environment.

Project March 21, 2020

How to Fight Disease Outbreaks With Data

We can analyze data across the world to identify and predict disease outbreaks. But synthesizing and standardizing it at a global level is a complicated task.

Insight March 20, 2020

Reforming Agricultural Domestic Support: Options for MC12 and beyond

This event, organized jointly by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), examined the recent trends in the levels of domestic support that governments provide their agricultural sectors. It presented these in the context of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) negotiations on agricultural trade.

Workshop March 20, 2020

Achieving Low Solar Energy Price in Indonesia: Lessons learned from the Gulf Cooperation Council region and India

While solar energy has exploded in India and the Gulf Cooperation Council region, it has lagged significantly in Indonesia. This report examines why this has been the case and what Indonesia can do to catch up to others in growing the renewable energy sector in the country.

Report March 20, 2020

Message about COVID-19 from IISD CEO

The global situation regarding COVID-19 is evolving quickly. At IISD, we are taking as many precautions as we can in order to “flatten the curve,” reduce transmission of this virus, and protect our staff and associates.

Statement March 17, 2020

The rules of foreign policy are changing

The world’s nations must come together to deal with global climate problems, or face heavy costs to their own national security.

IISD in the news March 17, 2020

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