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The Climate Change Risk to Our Banks

The Bank of Canada turned heads this month when, in its annual financial system review, it included climate change as a risk to financial institutions. What will this mean for banks and for Canada's corporate sector?

IISD in the news May 28, 2019

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Fossil fuel subsidies and reform on the rise

Between 2015 and 2018, 50 countries undertook some level of fossil fuel subsidy reform. That doesn't mean consumer subsidies are decreasing, however.

Insight May 27, 2019

Methodology for global fossil fuel subsidy reporting launched

A new report provides the first internationally agreed upon methodology to help countries increase transparency on fossil fuel subsidies.

Insight May 27, 2019

How Can Technology in Mining Protect the Environment?

Rapid advances in technology innovation, including automation, digitization and electrification, are fundamentally changing how the mining sector operates.

Insight May 23, 2019

IGF Mining Policy Framework Assessment: Ecuador

This report presents a Mining Policy Framework (MPF) Assessment for Ecuador, with a view to helping the government target its efforts in implementing its MPF.

Report May 23, 2019

Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

This report provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)”.

Report May 23, 2019

Province provides funds for Experimental Lakes Area

The Ontario provincial government will be providing $2 million in funding for ongoing research at the International Institute for Sustainable Development-Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA).

IISD in the news May 22, 2019

Fisheries Subsidies: Institutional Issues

This informal dialogue is designed to provide negotiators with an opportunity to discuss, in a non-negotiating setting and with the input of experts, the options available in the design of the institutional framework for a fisheries subsidies agreement.

Event May 21, 2019

Facilitating Peer Learning with Adaptation Policy-Makers

This guide is for people that want to hold inclusive, participatory events in which different stakeholders come together to collectively generate ideas and identify actions they will take to make progress toward adaptation.

Guide May 21, 2019

Ontario Supporting Freshwater Research and Education

Ontario's government is investing in a unique, world-renowned northern research facility to help protect the province's freshwater ecosystems.

Press release May 20, 2019

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