Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Water infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for water infrastructure.
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Renegotiating NAFTA: Pros and cons for Canada and Mexico
As NAFTA renegotiations continue, it is useful to examine what might happen if NAFTA tariff preferences disappear. This paper uses an economic trade model to simulate the impacts of a 20 per cent tariff increase in North American industries such as energy, steel, cement and automobiles.
Mercury: What it does to humans and what humans need to do about it
As the very first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury takes place, we explain why mercury poses such a risk to humans and what IISD Experimental Lakes Area has discovered, and lay out what needs to happen next.
IISD Experimental Lakes Area Fall Open House
Join us at our annual open house to learn what IISD-ELA science is all about! IISD-ELA scientists will be on-site to answer questions and discuss anything and everything related to environmental science and freshwater conservation.
Adaptation Urgent as Climate Change Impacts Proliferate
In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, there was debate about whether there was a need to talk about climate change adaptation.
NAFTA Renegotiations Must Protect 20 Years of Progress on Labour and Environmental Protections in Trade Agreements and Address New Risks
Sandra Polaski, an expert on labour and social policy issues at national and global levels gives us her take on the NAFTA negotiations in relation to labour, environment and trade agreements.
What Canada Needs to Do Now (But Isn’t) to Prevent the Worst Impacts of Climate Change
“The benefits are very high compared to the costs,” said Hank Venema, planning director at the Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre. “But it’s different than the way that governments have traditionally viewed these kinds of expenditures: they’ve looked upon it as just capital expense and not risk reduction and rural economic development and habitat benefit.”
Canada deploys 'multi-pronged' lobbying to counter Trump's EPA cuts
"North of the border, Amin Asadollahi, co-chair of the Green Budget Coalition and North American lead for climate mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said ENERGY STAR has helped businesses and Canadians reduce their energy costs and carbon pollution."
UNIGE–IISD Lunch Series on Investment Disputes: Investment Arbitration and Criminal Conduct
Investment arbitration and criminal conduct is the topic for the fourth in a series of public luncheons exploring the complexities of investment disputes at the University of Geneva.