In Ensuring a Resilient Recovery, Will Canada Lead, Follow, or Be Left Behind?
Canada must do more to fund a resilient recovery. IISD’s research into stimulus packages in Europe and Asia shows four areas of opportunity.
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COVID-19 Has Changed Our Freshwater Use. We Need To Be Careful
Buoyed by an increased prevalence of lockdown-related good-news stories, such as tales of clearer Vancouver skies and Venetian canals, our general assumption is that the current limitations on human movement will ultimately result in a significant net positive effect for our environment.
Task Force for a Resilient Recovery
With ideas from Canada and around the world, our Task Force aims for a resilient recovery—one that delivers good jobs, is positive for the environment, and addresses inequality.
Sustainable Finance Advice for the ASEAN Low Carbon Energy Program
IISD is a technical partner in the ASEAN Low Carbon Energy Programme (LCEP), which aims to drive inclusive growth and poverty reduction through increased energy efficiency and the adoption of low-carbon energy.
Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Exploring the Linkages
How can we ensure that climate action works hand in hand with efforts to realize sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)?
As global protectionism grows, Canada must look for new ways to operate
While the main instruments of the economic rescue have been fiscal and monetary interventions, trade has played a major role, but it’s uncertain what trade will look like when the pandemic is over.
[ES] Webinar: Mining Tax Policy and Administration Responses to COVID-19
This webinar will explore mining tax policy and administrative responses to the COVID-19 health crisis.
Plunging solar energy prices spell bright future for clean electricity
Solar energy has fallen in cost faster than experts predicted. How did electricity from photovoltaic panels get so cheap?
Trade and Climate after COVID-19: Subsidies, Stimulus, and Energy Price
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments to rethink their economic policies, systems, and agendas, while responding with stimulus packages, which sometimes include fossil fuel subsidies. The webinar will discuss global trade policy responses and the broader climate and environment policy conversations taking place now.
Covid-19: Emergency measures and investor-state arbitration claims
The unprecedented nature of the Covid-19 pandemic has re-kindled debates around the appropriateness of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in bi- and multi-lateral investment treaties.