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Undertreated Sewage Contributes to Harmful Algal Blooms

In this short brochure, the Lake Winnipeg Foundation and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, present their plans for an interim solution to Winnipeg's phosphorus woes.

Guide March 22, 2019

New Report: Cost-effective interim retrofit to Winnipeg’s North End sewage treatment plant would help protect Lake Winnipeg

On World Water Day, the Lake Winnipeg Foundation and the International Institute for Sustainable Development are releasing a report recommending an interim retrofit to Winnipeg’s largest sewage treatment plant. This retrofit could be implemented quickly and at low cost to significantly reduce the facility’s phosphorus contribution to Lake Winnipeg.

Press release March 21, 2019

Sustainability Standards and Empowering Women’s Food Security

Food security is an intersectional issue and development organizations can use voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) to contribute to empowering women’s food security in agriculture.

Insight March 21, 2019

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of the Contournement de Rabat (Morocco)

IISD has carried out an economic and financial assessment of different risk scenarios of the contournement de Rabat, the bypass road in Morocco. The assessment included the valuation of different externalities related to the road project.

Report March 21, 2019

Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals

Our report, available in English and French, explains how voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) can be used as a tool to meet the SDGs and targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture.

Report March 20, 2019

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Undertreated Sewage Contributes to Harmful Algal Blooms

New Report: Cost-effective interim retrofit to Winnipeg’s North End sewage treatment plant would help protect Lake Winnipeg

Sustainability Standards and Empowering Women’s Food Security

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of the Contournement de Rabat (Morocco)

Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Infrastructure: Valuing the cost of risks

Statement on Canada's Federal Budget 2019

Is China leading the global green charge?

How the U.S. EPA is Changing its Mercury Policy

Tristan Irschlinger