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Addressing Biodiversity Loss and Climate Change: Three ways adaptation planning can help

Biodiversity loss and climate change must be addressed urgently and ambitiously – until now, these agendas have remained separate, but neither will be resolved unless both are tackled together.

Insight August 10, 2021

A drop in the climate-change bucket

Ruinous drought offers stark evidence of crisis at hand, experts say.

IISD in the news August 9, 2021

How asset owners are trying to make a bigger (ESG) impact

During the G7 Summit, IISD revealed a startling fact: the world's richest nations continue to provide $190 billion of direct funding of oil, gas and coal each year.

IISD in the news August 9, 2021

Water efficiency, climate adaptation not optional for Manitoba: IISD

Despite its thousand lakes, Manitoba needs to plan to use its water more efficiently as it develops a new water management strategy, says the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

IISD in the news August 6, 2021

Hafiz Mirza

Person August 4, 2021

Will Carbon Taxes Level The International Playing Field?

A year ago, the idea of a carbon border tax was more of a hypothetical than an actual plan. But a year ago, the EU had not yet tightened its already tight emission reduction targets.

IISD in the news August 3, 2021

Bacteria clean-up: Should we let nature clean up oil spills?

Natural populations of oil-degrading bacteria could help to clean up freshwater rivers and lakes after spills from pipelines and trains, researchers have found after experiments that simulated spills in a Canadian lake.

IISD in the news August 3, 2021

Explainer: The E.U. and U.S. proposed ‘border carbon tax’ policies

In the midst of the climate emergency last month, the European Union and the United States proposed carbon taxes with the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent businesses from moving to countries with fewer regulation laws.

IISD in the news August 3, 2021

Jeffrey Qi

Person August 3, 2021

How should Canada finance infrastructure in an era of climate breakdown?

Government and its critics agree infrastructure needs to be built for a changing climate, but a debate about how to finance it will prove pivotal to the type of infrastructure Canadians get.

IISD in the news July 30, 2021

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