This assessment presents the economic valuation of bus fleet electrification in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, including its investment costs, added benefits, and avoided costs.
As national budgets tighten and overseas development aid shrinks, the global search for sustainable finance has reached a critical turning point. At the FCDO Global Partnership Conference, IISD Tax and Sovereign Debt Director Alexandra Readhead will deliver a feature talk revealing how the hidden tax expenditures can be harnessed to create immediate fiscal space and steer investment toward a green, inclusive future.
This workshop will explore policy design options suited to national contexts in the ASEAN region, and strengthen readiness for participation in international carbon markets, including under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
As the EUDR enters a new phase, global efforts to address deforestation are shifting from compliance to broader cooperation on forests, climate, and trade ahead of COP 31.
The governments of Canada and Alberta have announced new details on an oil pipeline while significantly weakening the industrial carbon price. Doubling down on oil and gas while much of the world is transitioning away from fossil fuels sets Canada on a path toward greater economic risk and worsening climate impacts.
India’s state-owned energy companies could significantly strengthen the country’s energy security by redirecting INR 2 trillion annually (around $21 billion) from fossil fuel investment towards clean energy projects, IISD said.
EU governments could cut CO₂ emissions via green procurement, but IISD says data gaps in PPDS limit impact tracking, hiding real climate savings potential.
Shovels could hit the ground on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline as early as September 2027, the federal and Alberta governments said Friday, after they announced a plan to gradually increase the province’s effective industrial carbon price to at least $130 a tonne by 2040.