A tale of two Winnipegs
Peg, a collaboration of IISD and the United Way of Winnipeg releases a "detailed report into how different communities in Winnipeg live, learn, and die [which] reveals a widening gulf between the city's rich and poor."
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Lessons Learned: Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Energy Sector Reform in the Philippines
The Philippines has removed the majority of all consumer energy subsidies. This detailed case study looks into some of the factors that enabled such durable reforms.
Canadian climate policy review 2013: Federal government pulls back and provinces work together
Canadian climate policy development stalled in 2013 due to a loss of political will at the federal level to move forward on greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations while the country’s provinces worked independently and in partnerships to pick up the slack. This is according to a new review of Canadian governments’ policies on climate change in 2013, published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
Lake Winnipeg the focus of $1M exhibit on World Water Day
IISD partners with the Manitoba Museum to create the first $1million + interactive exhibit in the Science Gallery. Lake Winnipeg: Shared Solutions asks players to consider the many factors that affect the health of the 2013 most endangered lake in the world.
“Imagine Change” forum looks at sustainable consumption
Laura Turley says the consumption pattern in Bhutan is less destructive as compared to its neighboring countries.
Interactive exhibit asks how can you improve the health of one of the world's greatest lakes?
On World Water Day, March 22, 2014, The Manitoba Museum, The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and other partners will launch a permanent, interactive, $1-million-plus exhibit: Lake Winnipeg: Shared Solutions. Shared Solutions uses the example of Lake Winnipeg, but more broadly allows museum visitors to discover answers to the question: What are the social, economic and environmental factors that determine the health of lakes?