UNCITRAL Process on ISDS Reform
This webinar sought to support governments and other stakeholders to work toward an ISDS reform agenda that works for sustainable development ahead of the UNCITRAL meeting in April 2018.
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La contaminación asfixia a la economía
(Spanish-language article) “La polución atmosférica es un problema muy serio pero existen otros contaminantes que pueden ser igual o más costosos, pero nos falta la información necesaria para estar seguros”, alerta Robert Smith, investigador del Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible (IISD).
Expert meeting on International Trade and Development
This one-day meeting, Towards a Progressive Model for International Trade and Development: North- South Trade Relations and the Future of Multilateralism, aims to formulate policy recommendations for a “progressive model for international trade and development” with a view to influence future trade and development policies of the EU and beyond
Freshwater World
In this film from 1974, Giles Walker takes a look at a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments. Beautiful footage of IISD Experimental Lakes Area starts at 3:28.
A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA
“You get what you pay for,” Scott Vaughan of the IISD said. “While the CEC has always been pretty low-profile, it’s done a lot of good work and improved our understanding of the state of the environment across North America.”
Canadian lakes serve as windows into Earth's origins
"The Lake Matano discoveries had special significance for Dr. Sherry Schiff in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her long history of studying freshwater habitats, including those at IISD-ELA in northern Ontario, helped her formulate a hypothesis."
Canadian corporations are suing developing countries for billions of dollars
"Howard Mann, a senior law advisor at the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development, says ISDS cases can impede sustainable development, especially when governments are already struggling to pay the bills. “If governments are paying billions of dollars to settle claims, they’re not spending it on education, health or local infrastructure.”"
Public Private Partnerships – Can They Deliver Better Value for Money?
It is difficult to imagine a more momentous time to write this commentary on the case for sustainable infrastructure and sustainable public private partnerships (PPPs).
How Multilateral Development Banks Can Avoid Crowding Out Institutional Investors
David Uzsoki takes a look at the role multilateral development banks should play in financing infrastructure.
Sewage SOS
IISD Experimental Lakes Area's Scott Higgins contributes a piece to this insert in the Winnipeg Free Press, explaining the science of phosphorus and algae.