Commodity eco-certification skyrockets, but standards slip
This Australian environment news website takes an in-depth look at IISD's recent State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) Review 2014.
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Biofuel Mandates - A Farce EPA Can No Longer Ignore
"[IISD's] report estimated it is almost 100 times more efficient and far less costly to raise CAFE standards and increase vehicle emissions requirements than it is to continue blending ethanol into gasoline…"
Cattails for Clean Community Waterways
In 2013, the City of Winnipeg and IISD embarked on a project to turn locally harvested cattail (Typha) and native prairie grasses into pellets to burn in a pellet stove located at the Living Prairie Museum, a facility run by the City. This video documents the process of harvesting, processing, pelletizing and burning the plant materials.
Fossil fuel Subsidies Hamper Pathway to Inclusive Green Economy
An article on the Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies for an Inclusive Green Economy workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, held at the end of April 2014 and co-hosted by our Global Subsidies Initiative team.
Assessing Green Industrial Policy: The India experience
This report is one in a series that considers the lessons for green industrial policy that can be learned from policies in the renewable energy sector. The aim of the series is to provide policy-makers with research to support the development of cost-effective, well-targeted policies for the development of green industries.
Sponsor a fish and save Canada’s experimental lakes
Read all about IISD's Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for our newly acquired Experimental Lakes Area.
Event to demonstrate local, renewable energy source that also keeps our waterways clean
What if there were a way to reduce the amount of harmful nutrients that enter our urban waterways and eventually Lake Winnipeg, and at the same time create a locally-sourced, renewable, organic source of energy? On Wednesday April 23, 2014, at 9:45 a.m. at the Living Prairie Museum, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in partnership with the City of Winnipeg, will be hosting an event to demonstrate how pellets of cattails and grasses, sourced from Winnipeg, can be burned to generate clean energy and also improve the health of our city’s waterways.