Sustainable and Resilient Value Chains: Deforestation
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards and private sector actors can prevent, respond to, recover from, and adapt to deforestation risks in global value chains.
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Validation Workshop to Support Papua New Guinea’s Preparation for Implementing the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies
Workshop to present and discuss the results of IISD’s self-assessment tool to support Papua New Guinea in preparing for the ratification and implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.
Why Industrial Policy-making Is the Key to Unlocking Gains From Industrial Policy
Prof. David Luke and Hana AlWakeel argue that unlocking the gains of industrial policy depends on strengthening policy-making capacity, making it more adaptive, consultative, and transboundary—specifically in Africa.
Rethinking Industrial Policy for the Services Economy
Pierre Sauvé explores what industrial policy looks like in a services-driven economy, highlighting the need for policies that create the conditions for services to flourish and drive growth across the entire economy.
Nepal’s Textiles and Clothing Exports
As Nepal approaches graduation from least-developed country status, Paras Kharel, Kshitiz Dahal, and Dikshya Singh explore the challenges facing the country’s textiles and clothing sector and outline the policy shifts needed to preserve its competitiveness.
Agriculture and the Green Transition
David Laborde examines how industrial policy can draw on agriculture’s long history of state intervention and how emerging green industrial strategies are poised to reshape agriculture in return.
New report backs Canada's ambition to be energy superpower as Ottawa, B.C. tout LNG
A new report is giving fresh support to Canada's ambition to be an energy superpower as the federal and B.C. governments push for increased exports of liquefied natural gas. But in a recent analysis, IISD rejects the portrayal of LNG as a transition fuel, warning that there are potent methane emissions, which contribute to climate change, during the production of natural gas through fracking.
Budgeting for Net Zero: Powering India's reliable clean energy future
This report assesses the cost competitiveness of firm and dispatchable renewable energy (FDRE) relative to new thermal power in India through 2050, any government support needed to accelerate FDRE uptake as the cost-effective generation option, and the macroeconomic implications of scaling FDRE.
Digital Dividends or Dependency? Industrial policy in the age of digital economies
Drawing on Kenya’s digital economy, Kitrhona Cerri and Maria Mexi argue that without stronger data governance, labour protections, and mechanisms for domestic value capture, digitalization could lead to dependency rather than supporting inclusive industrial development.
IISD Trade and Sustainability Review, December 2025
This edition of the IISD Trade and Sustainability Review highlights five distinct and often underexplored dimensions of industrial policy, focusing on services, agriculture, digitalization, and inclusive development, the textiles and garments sector in least developed countries, and policy-making processes.