Automation at mines will have significant impact on jobs, tax revenues: study
Local communities and governments will lose jobs and tax revenues as mines become increasingly automated using emerging technologies such as self-driving trucks.
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Can We End Hunger By 2030?
"What would it take to end hunger by 2030? 2030 is the year to meet the sustainable development goals. Of the SDGs, goal number 2 aims at zero hunger."
Ending Hunger: What would it cost?
Ever wondered how much it would cost to end hunger? Join us at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome to find out more!
Mining a Mirage? Reassessing the shared-value paradigm in light of the technological advances in the mining sector
This report uses real-world mining data to estimate the impacts of new technologies on employment and employment-related procurement, which drive major benefits in host countries.
Opening Our Doors: IISD Experimental Lakes Area 2015-2016 Annual Report
2015-2016 was the year that IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) truly opened its doors to the world.
Investment-Related Dispute Settlement: Towards an inclusive multilateral approach
This document outlines results from an IISD expert meeting discussing investment-related dispute settlement which was held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
Turning Down the Temperature: Freezing HFCs as a critical step in climate action
This past week, climate negotiators gathered in Rwanda's capital Kigali to once again test the international community’s political resolve to tackle climate change, this time on a class of short-lived greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons.
Ending world hunger is within reach: Study finds it will cost only USD 11 billion more a year
Ending world hunger is within reach, according to a new study that found it will cost USD 11 billion a year to feed hundreds of millions of needy people.
Basic human right to food in focus at CMHR for World Food Day
"The Prairie Climate Centre is a collaborative initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Development, where Venema has been chief scientist since 2014, the University of Winnipeg and other partners with the mission to identify and implement ways to mitigate against climate change in Western Canada."
Ending Hunger: What would it cost?
The International Institute for Sustainable Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute joined forces to estimate what it would cost to end hunger, and the contribution that donors need to make.