To remove fossil fuel subsidies in ten years, a plan is needed now
"In short, Canada has been sending the right signals, but now is the time to translate those messages into action. Broadly speaking, that requires three things."
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Webinar: Quel est le rôle des femmes rurales dans l'atteinte des objectifs de développement durable?
Indonesia Uses Savings from Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform to Finance Development
Indonesia’s deep cuts to subsidies for fossil fuels have been matched by a substantial increase in spending on other areas of the state budget, which bodes well for the country’s economic and social development.
Canadian students to participate in major Lake Winnipeg watershed research project
"Students from eighteen high schools will spend the next couple of weeks collecting various data on the watershed — including phosphate and nitrate levels, turbidity, and species identification — as part of a citizen science project initiated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Canadian Geographic Education."
Government Policies are Discouraging Adaptation to Climate Change
"Unless these perverse risk-shifting incentives are replaced with measures that strongly promote precautionary adaptation before disasters strike, climate change damages are likely to make the Wall Street meltdown seem like a minor blip."
Meeting Canada's Subsidy Phase-Out Goal: What it means in Ontario
IISD examines some of the fossil fuel subsidies in place in Ontario, how the government is responding to them and where more can be done.
Winnipeg: A bikeable, walkable city?
"Statistics Canada commuter surveys from 2011 show about 7.6 per cent of Winnipeggers walk or bike to work as their primary mode of transportation—Bike Winnipeg will tell you the number has increased since then."
The Water Brothers Explore Climate Change at IISD-ELA
At the end of May 2016, the Water Brothers visited IISD Experimental Lakes Area to shoot an episode on the impact of climate change on fresh water. They performed some of the science themselves, spoke with researchers, shot our beautiful vistas and, most importantly, met our fish.