This round table offered a space to explore how trade frameworks can promote environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and good governance through collaboration with partners and philanthropy.
Why India needs to gradually diversify clean cooking beyond liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/piped natural gas (PNG)—urban electric cooking ("e-cooking") and rural biogas—to address affordability, access, and volatility challenges.
Facundo Calvo reviews key WTO agriculture negotiations ahead of MC14 and identifies the areas where progress is possible for LDCs, while highlighting informal dialogues on sustainable agriculture.
As the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global development drive, shifts focus to more renewables, technology, and small-scale projects, IISD sets out how policy-makers in host countries should adapt their approach.
On February 11, 2026, IISD hosted a side event at the UN FCITC, exploring lessons from Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) for arbitration under the UN Tax Convention and effective international tax dispute resolution.
Indonesia’s commitment to a low-carbon future is gaining momentum, and international collaboration is key to sustaining this progress. This event launched new research on carbon pricing and sustainable transport, providing recommendations to support the Government of Indonesia in incorporating just transition and gender equality and social inclusion principles.
This study evaluates feasibility of electric cookers powered by solar irrigation systems and their impact on gender equality and social inclusion in rural Kenyan households.