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A historic day as Paris Climate Agreement crosses a critical threshold

The global commitment to slowing the pace of climate change culminated today with the European Parliament approving the ratification of the Paris climate agreement thereby enabling its entry into force this week.

Press release October 3, 2016

IISD Recognizes Canada’s Carbon Pricing Proposal as an Important First Step

IISD responds to the Government of Canada's announcement today to introduce Canada-wide carbon pricing.

Press release October 2, 2016

Building a Climate-Resilient City

Well-planned adaptation measures in Alberta can improve the quality of urban life as well as protect infrastructures, strengthen community ties, and improve economic performance.

Project October 1, 2016

ALivE - Adaptation, Livelihoods and Ecosystems Planning Tool

ALivE is a tool designed to help organize and analyze information to plan effective ecosystem-based adaptation.

Project October 1, 2016

Measuring Progress through Data and Narratives: Celebrating the First Anniversary of the 2030 Agenda

"Member States of the United Nations recognized the power of goal setting for achieving objectives through their decision in June 2012, to negotiate a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [...] These decisions embody the expectation that setting goals matters in governance settings, and that data to measure implementation provide critical tools to enable progress towards the goals."

IISD in the news September 29, 2016

Making Every Drop Count: Pakistan’s growing water scarcity challenge

Can climate change risks spur needed action?

Insight September 29, 2016

We all have role to play in protecting lakes

Dimple Roy and Alexis Kanu argue that we need a systematic watershed monitoring process in Manitoba, to ensure the best health for prairie lakes.

IISD in the news September 29, 2016

Catherine Senecal

Person September 27, 2016

WTO Public Forum: Should the development of private standards be more transparent?

This event at the 2016 WTO Public Forum will discuss how reclusive should the WTO allow product standards to be?

Event September 27, 2016

Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: Current status of research

Little is known about the gender differentiated impacts of fossil fuel subsidy reforms. This review takes stock of existing knowledge, identifies knowledge gaps and sets out plans for future research in this area.

Report September 27, 2016

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