Plunging solar energy prices spell bright future for clean electricity
Solar energy has fallen in cost faster than experts predicted. How did electricity from photovoltaic panels get so cheap?
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Trade and Climate after COVID-19: Subsidies, Stimulus, and Energy Price
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments to rethink their economic policies, systems, and agendas, while responding with stimulus packages, which sometimes include fossil fuel subsidies. The webinar will discuss global trade policy responses and the broader climate and environment policy conversations taking place now.
Covid-19: Emergency measures and investor-state arbitration claims
The unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has re-kindled debates around the appropriateness of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in bi- and multi-lateral investment treaties.
Banana sector embracing sustainability
Voluntary sustainability standards are increasingly being used by banana producers as challenges including disease and climate change mount.
Fisheries Subsidies Video Series
As part of its work to support a meaningful WTO agreement to discipline harmful fisheries subsidies, the IISD has produced a series of six videos to summarize the key issues to be resolved across the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations.
Join The World's Freshwater Laboratory to Launch a Field Season like No Other
Pour yourself a glass of wine and join IISD Experimental Lakes Area for this hour-long exploration of how we are managing to stay functional in a new normal.
This Coal Plant Endangers Forests, Wildlife, People. And India Doesn’t Even Need It, Experts Say
The price of solar-powered electricity has reduced since the Khurja power plant was conceived, and is now 14% lower than that of coal-fired power, making India the cheapest renewable energy market in the Asia-Pacific region.
Is Palm Oil Bad? The Consequences On Wildlife And The Environment
With more and more people turning vegan for animal wellbeing and the climate, questions concerning the planet’s most consumed vegetable oil are on the rise.
Financing COVID-19 Stimulus: Will high levels of public debt come back to haunt us?
The majority of COVID-related stimulus financing comes from government borrowing. Can this debt be paid back? Is it even meant to be?
How to raise an easy $1 billion per day for the Covid-19 recovery
A temporary tax hike on gasoline and diesel is one of the fairest, greenest ways to fund post-pandemic economic stimulus packages.