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Indicator Preferences in National Reporting of Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are intended to offer an ambitious and transformational agenda for our common future through 2030. In this brief, we review countries’ voluntary reviews to the HLPF to identify the indicators that countries have actually been using in their reports to date, and data attached to those indicators.

Brief June 6, 2017

2017 Our City: A Peg Report on the Natural and Built Environment

The third edition of Our City, A Peg Report examines how the physical, mental, and social health and well-being of Winnipeggers is shaped by their environment.

Report June 5, 2017

Cost of Pollution: Extreme Weather

Did you know that the cost of climate change-related heat waves in Canada is estimated to have been $1.6 billion in 2015?

Video June 2, 2017

Cost of Pollution: Contaminated Sites

Did you know that average annual cost of managing contaminated sites under federal jurisdiction in Canada was $283 million between 2005/06 and 2014/15?

Video June 2, 2017

Cost of Pollution: Persistent Organic Pollutants

Did you know that the cost of persistent organic pollutants to Canada is estimated to be in the billions, but we still don't know for sure?

Video June 2, 2017

Cost of Pollution: Smog

Did you know that smog cost Canada $36 billion in 2015?

Video June 2, 2017

MPs call for stronger law against toxic chemicals

"The Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development estimates that the costs of pollution in Canada exceeded $35 billion in 2015."

IISD in the news June 2, 2017

Listening to Local Voices: What makes adaptation unique in the agriculture sector?

Achieving a more resilient agricultural sector is fundamental not only for a low-carbon future, but also to realize developmental goals related to the eradication of poverty and hunger, while learning how to better cope, adapt and transform in the face of climate change impacts.

Insight June 2, 2017

Trump’s rejection of Paris Agreement is a call to action and resolve for us all

"U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change puts the United States at odds not just with the international community, but with overwhelming scientific evidence and the publicly expressed wishes of hundreds of American companies, from Apple to Exxon. U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change puts the United States at odds not just with the international community, but with overwhelming scientific evidence and the publicly expressed wishes of hundreds of American companies, from Apple to Exxon."

Press release June 1, 2017

Pollution costs Canadians billions

"Pollution costs Canadians at least $39 billion per year. And that is a very conservative number. The estimate was produced in a groundbreaking study released today by the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), called The Costs of Pollution in Canada: Measuring the impacts on families, businesses and governments."

IISD in the news June 1, 2017

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Indicator Preferences in National Reporting of Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals

2017 Our City: A Peg Report on the Natural and Built Environment

Cost of Pollution: Extreme Weather

Cost of Pollution: Contaminated Sites

Cost of Pollution: Persistent Organic Pollutants

Cost of Pollution: Smog

MPs call for stronger law against toxic chemicals

Listening to Local Voices: What makes adaptation unique in the agriculture sector?

Trump’s rejection of Paris Agreement is a call to action and resolve for us all

Pollution costs Canadians billions