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Ottawa must work with Indigenous communities to mitigate climate disasters, experts say

First Nations and Indigenous communities in Canada need more support from the federal government to cope with future disasters related to climate change, according to a new report on Canada's disaster resilience.

IISD in the news January 14, 2022

Planting for Resilience

Scaling Up the Adoption of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Using Behaviour-Centred Design: The case of vetiver grass for riverbank erosion control in Fiji

Project January 14, 2022

Lama Abdellatif

Person January 13, 2022

Expert panel says Canada needs to 'up its game' on climate data to better adapt

A new report suggests Canada is not doing enough to adapt to and prevent the effects of climate change and is lacking the critical data it needs to do so.

IISD in the news January 13, 2022

B.C.'s costly climate disasters show Canada's insurance gap

The storms that battered British Columbia in November left taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars because few homeowners had overland flood insurance.

IISD in the news January 13, 2022

Watch the Fine Print, Analysts Advise, as Canada Tackles Public Finance Phaseout for Fossil Fuels

While the Canadian government is working on a plan to phase out public financing to the fossil fuel sector, the high-profile announcement may only result in a change in the way Ottawa supports the industry, not a reduction in the dollars that change hands, according to an analysis last week in the Globe and Mail.

IISD in the news January 13, 2022

Canada is leaving communities in the dark about the risks and costs of climate disasters

A new report finds the federal government isn’t doing enough to act on or disclose detailed information about the growing hazards of a warming climate, including extreme temperatures, flood, fires, landslides and drought.

IISD in the news January 13, 2022

EU Lawmaker Wants Carbon Border Tax to Cover More Goods, Enter Into Force Sooner

The lawmaker leading the European Parliament’s work on an EU carbon border tax has submitted a draft report on the proposal to establish a carbon border adjustment mechanism.

News January 12, 2022

Green Tech: Fishing for Dark Data

How do antidepressants affect fish? Can biological remediation improve water health (e.g. intentionally planting cattails in dirty waterways)? How can the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI) innovate freshwater research? These are just a few of the questions researchers at International Institute for Sustainable Development’s (IISD) Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) have been tackling over the last few years.

IISD in the news January 12, 2022

Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Adoption of Agri-Environmental Beneficial Management Practices in Manitoba

This Living Lab brief examines the socio-economic factors that drive the uptake of agri-environmental beneficial management practices on agricultural lands in Manitoba, Canada.

Brief January 12, 2022

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Ottawa must work with Indigenous communities to mitigate climate disasters, experts say

Planting for Resilience

Lama Abdellatif

Expert panel says Canada needs to 'up its game' on climate data to better adapt

B.C.'s costly climate disasters show Canada's insurance gap

Watch the Fine Print, Analysts Advise, as Canada Tackles Public Finance Phaseout for Fossil Fuels

Canada is leaving communities in the dark about the risks and costs of climate disasters

EU Lawmaker Wants Carbon Border Tax to Cover More Goods, Enter Into Force Sooner

Green Tech: Fishing for Dark Data

Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Adoption of Agri-Environmental Beneficial Management Practices in Manitoba