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Roadmap for China: Green Bond Guidelines for the Next Stage of Market Growth

This report sets out a roadmap for the next steps of the green bond guidelines in the Chinese domestic green bond market with the aim of harmonizing these guidelines with international practice.

Report April 28, 2016

Roadmap for China: Scaling Up Green Bond Market Issuance

This report provides a roadmap for China to scale up the issuance of green bonds in the domestic market and develop the overseas RMB-denominated market by identifying and addressing the current challenges that limit green bond issuance.

Report April 28, 2016

Donna Laroque

Person April 26, 2016

Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals—Challenges for OECD countries (Part I)

Switzerland will be one of the first countries to report back to the UN's High-Level Political Forum on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In the first of a series of postings, Mark Halle highlights critical issues for Switzerland—and by extension, other OECD countries—to address in its reporting.

Insight April 26, 2016

Bottom-up Accountability for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Are subnational indicator systems aligned?

This briefing note evaluates, as a test case, alignment between subnational sustainable development indicators and the new Sustainable Development Goal indicators.

Brief April 25, 2016

Strategic ways to reduce fossil fuel subsidies

"Richard Bridle, a project researcher who supports IISD's (International Institute for Sustainable Development) Geneva-based GSI, said that subsidies are often used as an unjustified payment to an inefficient industry. To know what the fossil fuel subsidies really were, one should first have a clear mind on what subsidies are in a legal and economic context."

IISD in the news April 22, 2016

India’s 2016 Budget: A mixed bag for clean energy alternatives

India's 2016 budget features some important concessions for increasing clean energy, but it is not without drawbacks.

Insight April 22, 2016

Towards a Strategy for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Canada

Canada is thus obliged, like other UN member states, to help achieve the SDGs both domestically and internationally by 2030.

Insight April 20, 2016

Gestion de l’Environnement et en Réhabilitation de Sites Miniers en Fin d’Exploitation

Event April 18, 2016

Local College Heats Up with Cattails

Providence University College in Otterburne, Manitoba is proving what IISD researchers have been predicting for years: that biomass pellets consisting of a mixture of wood chips and cattails can be an affordable, reliable and environmentally-friendly source of heat for buildings.

Press release April 14, 2016

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