ALivE: A new tool for Ecosystem-based Adaptation
There’s an urgent need to prepare ecosystems for climate change impacts. Healthy ecosystems are critical for sustaining livelihoods. They also increase our capacity to adapt to climate change.
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Investment Facilitation: Making sense of concepts, discussions and processes
This background note provides an overview of discussions on investment at the global level in order to better understand and place the current discussions on investment facilitation.
Webinar: Investment Facilitation – Making sense of concepts, discussions and processes
The second session of the IISD Webinar Series on Investment Law and Policy, on July 10, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. CEST, offered government officials and other stakeholders an opportunity to discuss the relevance, opportunities and risks of investment facilitation discussions, especially for developing countries.
Let's talk, not bicker, about Canada's energy future
A clean energy transition requires Canadians to find consensus and act.
China's War on Pollution—and What Comes Next
Insights on China's climate leadership following the 10th meeting of Eco Forum Global.
Inventory of Energy Subsidies in the EU's Eastern Partnership Countries
This publication aims to provide the first comprehensive and consistent record of energy subsidies in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region, with a view to improving transparency and establishing a solid analytical basis that can help build the case for further reforms in these countries (this study covers Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
Spilling oil in the name of science
"The experiment, performed at the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Areas, is giving scientists their first chance to work at scale on monitoring the impact of a spill of the dense crude oil, called diluted bitumen, on this sensitive ecosystem, which is widespread throughout the country."
Webinar: Economic Instruments to Leverage Clean Energy Investment
This webinar will look at the strong role of economic instruments in creating incentives to help de-risk the needed investments.
Better Tools and Standards: Enhancing Effectiveness and Mainstreaming of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (CBD SBSTTA-22 Side Event)
Presentations will concentrate on the biodiversity-adaptation nexus and the introduction of different tools, quality criteria, and standards to enhance the effectiveness of Ecosystem-based Adaptation.
SAVi Workshop on the Rabat Bypass Motorway Project
IISD is hosting a workshop in collaboration with the Moroccan Road Agency and the International Road Federation in Rabat, Morocco, to present the SAVi tool and its application on the Rabat Bypass Motorway Project.