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Chapter: Trade and Sustainable Development from Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities

Sustainable development is one of the most difficult policy challenges of our time. It is also closely linked to the global trading system. In this chapter from IRPP's Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities, IISD President Scott Vaughan describes how environmental concerns have become part of international trade policy over the past two decades, and discusses some of the implications for Canada.

Policy Analysis September 28, 2015

Finance Sector Reforms are Key to a Greener Economy in China

GENEVA—September 28, 2015—China’s ambitions for a greener economy require broad use of its finance sector to drive the necessary investment, according to leading financial and environmental experts in an IISD report released today.

Press release September 27, 2015

WEFsat-Mining Tool User-Guidance Manual: Water, energy and food security analysis tool for mining

Report September 27, 2015

Water-Energy-Food Resource Book for Mining

This manual briefly explains IISD’s water-energy and food security framework.

Report September 27, 2015

Water-Energy-Food Security and Mining in Suriname: A project overview

Water, energy and food security constitutes critical components of human well-being and includes aspects of supply, demand and access to all three.

Report September 27, 2015

Key Issues on the Road to Paris: A briefing note on COP 21 for the members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP)

Report September 27, 2015

Greening China's Financial System

The aim of this book is to develop specific proposals for greening China’s financial system, based on an analysis of current practice in China and an exchange of experience with international experts.

Publication September 25, 2015

Inclusivity and Integration: The new Sustainable Development Goals and a second chance for Bretton Woods

The Sustainable Development Goals have been dubbed “the Bretton Woods moment for our generation.” This paper explores some of the ideas and actors that shaped the earlier vision of the first Bretton Woods system, which laid the economic foundation and institutions of the post-Second World War period.

Policy Analysis September 24, 2015

Experimental Lakes Area back on track

Chris Marchand takes a look at the new era of IISD Experimental Lakes Area.

IISD in the news September 23, 2015

Climate Change, Conflict, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Peace and stability, it has long been recognized, are prerequisites for sustainable development.

Insight September 23, 2015

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Chapter: Trade and Sustainable Development from Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities

Finance Sector Reforms are Key to a Greener Economy in China

WEFsat-Mining Tool User-Guidance Manual: Water, energy and food security analysis tool for mining

Water-Energy-Food Resource Book for Mining

Water-Energy-Food Security and Mining in Suriname: A project overview

Key Issues on the Road to Paris: A briefing note on COP 21 for the members of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP)

Greening China's Financial System

Inclusivity and Integration: The new Sustainable Development Goals and a second chance for Bretton Woods

Experimental Lakes Area back on track

Climate Change, Conflict, and the Sustainable Development Goals