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Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development: Overview Brief 3

This brief explores country perspectives on alignment of national-level policy processes under the Paris Agreement—specifically, NAPs and NDCs—as a basis for broader alignment toward climate-resilient development.

Brief August 16, 2019

Submission to Environment and Climate Change Canada's Consultation on Non-Tax Fossil Fuel Subsidies

As part the G20 peer review of fossil fuel subsidies, Environment and Climate Change Canada opened a consultation on their review of non-tax subsidies. IISD developed this written submission in response.

Report August 14, 2019

Agricultural Bias in Focus

This paper provides further details and explains how to measure and understand the source of agricultural bias in a country, including examples and country case studies.

Report August 12, 2019

Here's a Policy Road Map for Sustainable, Green Finance

With the impacts of climate change being seen every day around the world, concern over the climate-related financial risks is also deepening. The Bank of England, which recently committed to taking action to ensure the resilience of the financial system and to support the UK’s transition to a carbon-neutral economy, warns that the estimated losses from a disorderly transition to a low-carbon economy could be up to USD 20 trillion.

Policy Analysis August 9, 2019

Green Bond Market Needs for Standardization

Green bonds are generated to attract funds for projects that have a positive environmental or climate benefit, such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, agriculture, transportation and water management.

Policy Analysis August 8, 2019

A Policy Taxonomy for Agricultural Transformation

This taxonomy is derived from the original framework of four broad categories and nine sub-categories used in Transforming Agriculture in Africa & Asia: What are the policy priorities?

Brief August 8, 2019

The bittersweet story of how we stopped acid rain

Acid rain went from being a pollution disaster to an environmental success story. How did scientists at IISD's Experimental Lakes Area manage to prove that acid rain existed, and find a way to stop it?

IISD in the news August 7, 2019

IISD at the Summer Meeting in Lausanne Europe (SMILE)

IISD’s Group Director for Economic Law and Policy, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, is speaking at the Summer Meeting in Lausanne Europe (SMILE) for future European climate strikers, looking at how international trade and investment treaties need to be redesigned to support the achievement of bold climate action, both in Europe and globally.

Event August 6, 2019

Mapping Policy for Solar Irrigation Across the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus in India

How are India's off-grid solar pump policies affecting the water–energy–food nexus? This paper maps out impacts and the key policies that are driving them.

Report August 6, 2019

Calcium levels in freshwater lakes declining in Europe and North America with negative impacts on some species, new study

A new global study of how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world has revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern North America, calcium levels are declining towards levels that can be critically low for the reproduction and survival of many aquatic organisms.

Press release August 5, 2019

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