"When the first few big NAFTA Chapter 11-based dispute cases hit Europe, a bit of a shockwave ensued, said Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, group director of the Economic Law & Policy Program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)."
"New research is being planned and new friendships are being cultivated for scientists at the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA)."
IISD Senior Fellow and Associate Simon Zadek and Ma Jun underline the importance of green finance at this week's G20 Summit.
"Imagine the Canadian government taxed cigarettes with one hand, while handing out tax breaks to tobacco companies with the other. That would rightly be called a walking contradiction—but not far from our treatment of the fossil fuel sector."
"Some of the largest, most profitable companies in Canada are collectively receiving an estimated $3.3 billion in subsidies every year from Canadian taxpayers, according to a new analysis from the International Institute for Sustainable Development."
"Down the road in our own backyard lies a world class research facility known as the Experimental Lakes Area [...] IISD has kept the facility running and now it hopes to reach out more to the surrounding communities to invite them into their world of aquatic research that has been running since 1969."