IISD Experimental Lakes Area: The world's living laboratory
Sumeep Bath explains why IISD Experimental Lakes Area is such a special place in the Winnipeg Airport's The Hub magazine.
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The Adaptive Watershed: Training for watershed-based adaptation and management
When it comes to managing our watersheds in a way that is integrated and adaptive, practicioners have always encountered difficulties with implementation. It can be challenging to ensure a holistic approach that includes ecosystem, watershed, and adaptive management. This is why IISD's Water Program is facilitiating the process.
Advisory Services, Technical Support, and Workshops
IISD's international lawyers and policy experts provide training courses, workshops, and a range of advisory services for developing economy officials—covering investment treaties, laws and contracts, negotiations, and dispute prevention and management.
Public Policy Assessment and Advancing Science-Based Freshwater Protection: Background paper
In January 2017, IISD and the University of Ottawa convened a small group of experts to discuss fresh water in Canada, particularly as it relates to the federal regulatory regime. This paper written by M.P. Trudeau served as the background document for this event.
Compensation in International Investment Law
As discussions on how to reform the international investment governance regime advance across multiple forums, from United Nations negotiations to individual treaties, one of the critical topics that has emerged is the massive scale of awards.
Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management in East Africa
Improving understanding and capacity to incorporate ecosystem management, gender responsiveness and climate adaptation into watershed management efforts.
Private Investments and Agriculture: The importance of integrating sustainability into planning and implementation
Recently, we have seen an increase in large-scale investment into agriculture. An important policy question is to what extent these large-scale agricultural investment contribute to improving local livelihoods, as well as economic and environmental conditions.
Reactions to Canada's Climate Change Framework: Government leadership
Melissa Harris takes a look at the recent Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, focusing on government leadership.
Canada’s climate leadership sets the course toward a more resilient and cleaner economy
"We must peak and bend global emissions as quickly as possible. To this end, we were pleased to see the Canadian government, following the first ministers’ meeting last week, putting forward a comprehensive plan to tackling Canada’s growing greenhouse gas emissions, The Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change."