Roundtable: What's causing extreme weather?
"Ferocious storms, bigger floods, more devastation. Extreme weather events are getting worse. Do towns and cities need better infrastructure to cope?" Anne Hammill joins a roundtable debate.
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Assessing the Impacts of Investment Treaties: Overview of the evidence
Investment treaties grant powerful legal rights to foreign investors. Foreign investors’ ability to frame plausible multimillion-dollar claims against a wide range of host government actions—and the fact that these claims are adjudicated through a system of private arbitration—has made investment treaties controversial. This scoping study seeks to provide an overview and assessment of existing evidence of investment treaties’ impacts.
The Rise of Agricultural Growth Poles in Africa: Investment in Agriculture Policy Brief #6
Africa has seen the emergence of 36 agricultural growth poles and 9 corridors over the past 15 years. They cover at least 3.5 million hectares of land in 23 countries. Ensuring that the new wave of agropoles and growth corridors is effective requires robust policies, laws and practices to ensure that a possible new trend of investment helps Africa achieve the sustainable development goals the continent has set.
Conserving Biological Hotspots in Conflict-Affected Democratic Republic of Congo
Maiko National Park, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is so remote that the park’s northern edge can only be reached by a seven-day walk through thick, inhospitable forest.
Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2017
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Buildings
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for buildings.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Energy infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for energy infrastructure.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Roads
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for road infrastructure.
Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Water infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for water infrastructure.
Renegotiating NAFTA: Pros and cons for Canada and Mexico
As NAFTA renegotiations continue, it is useful to examine what might happen if NAFTA tariff preferences disappear. This paper uses an economic trade model to simulate the impacts of a 20 per cent tariff increase in North American industries such as energy, steel, cement and automobiles.