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Canada Takes the Lead on Methane Emissions
"In the fight against climate change, one of the most damaging greenhouse gases is also one of the least regulated. Unless new strategies are developed to measure and reduce atmospheric methane, the targets set by the Paris climate agreement are unlikely to be met."
Nutrition Financing Needs a Paradigm Shift: Save the Children
"And then we worked with the International Institute of Sustainable Development. They released a paper indicating that there’s roughly $11 billion a year required until 2030 and nutrition-sensitive [efforts] including agriculture and [water, sanitation and hygiene] and social-protection intervention. We basically added those two things up, the extrapolation plus the nutrition sensitivity."
Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
Don't put taxpayers on the hook for the Trans Mountain Pipeline
"Even the poorest developing countries are reassessing the objective of attracting any and all investment, in favour of attracting quality investment."
Media Availability: Is Canada Ready to Implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada has just released a report that reveals the Government of Canada is not adequately prepared to implement the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. IISD's experts are ready to respond.
How can the media do a better job of covering sustainable development?
“Sustainability is not just about environment; it’s about economic issues. It’s about social issues. And they’re all interconnected,” says Zahra Sethna, director of communications at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a think tank.
Trans Mountain spill 'could have significant impacts' says Canadian government scientist
"This summer, work will begin to study the effect of a diluted bitumen spill in the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario to look at the fate and behaviour of dilbit in a Boreal freshwater lake."
Stakeholder Session on UNCITRAL ISDS Reform Process
This stakeholder session was hosted by IISD in partnership with CCSI and the IIED alongside the UNCITRAL meetings in April, 2018.
Capacity-Building Workshops on the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool (SAVi) in Senegal
IISD is hosting a series of capacity-building workshops on the use of SAVi and the financing of sustainable infrastructure from April 23 to 27, 2018.