IISD Board Member Lloyd Axworthy Honoured with Canada's Pearson Peace Medal
IISD is very pleased to announce that its board member Lloyd Axworthy was honoured with the 30th Pearson Peace Medal on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
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Building Global Governance for 'Climate Refugees'
IISD President-CEO Scott Vaughan and IISD Board Member Lloyd Axworthy, along with several representatives from various environmental NGOs, contributed to this G20 Insights policy brief on recognizing that forced displacement due to climate change is increasing.
G20 must support good jobs in the low carbon transition
Donald Trump’s unrealistic promise to put coal miners back to work shows why we need a positive strategy to create green jobs.
IGF Mining Policy Framework Assessment: Suriname
An assessment of Suriname’s readiness and capacity to implement the Mining Policy Framework (MPF) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF).
With more questions than answers, single terminal proposal at KCI flies into headwinds
"An unsolicited proposal is no reason to abandon competitive processes, said Laura Turley, an associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Competitive bidding on public projects is essential to discovering the right price."
Standards: An Opportunity for Biodiversity Protection
Voluntary sustainability standards have a strong potential for supporting efforts to protect biological diversity. But policy makers to become watchdogs and regulators if this potential is to be realized.
New toolkit to help govts manage small-scale mining sector
"Governments struggling to manage the complex and sometimes chaotic artisanal and small-scale mining sector have a new toolkit, which was developed by the Intergovernmental Forums on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)."
The End of Coal Mining in South Wales: Lessons learned from industrial transformation
The decline of coal mining in South Wales has important lessons for policy-makers and civil society grappling with the challenges of transition—what can be learned from this experience?