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Oil Companies Are Suing to Block Climate Action – With 72% Success

Fossil fuel investors are adopting a bold new legal tactic in response to efforts to limit global warming: they are going to private international tribunals to argue that climate change policies are illegally cutting into their profits and they must therefore be compensated. Now governments are scrambling to figure out how to not get sued for billions when enacting climate policies.

IISD in the news June 12, 2022

National Workshop on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, Illicit Financial Flows, and Conflict in Niger

The IGF organized a workshop for officials in Niger to promote dialogue on ASM governance challenges related to illicit financial flows and conflict.

Brief June 12, 2022

Outdoors: Ohio biologists share techniques and technology with African counterparts

She was more than 7,000 miles from her home in Rwanda and had spent the previous two weeks touring the Great Lakes of North America, heavily immersed in the science of fisheries management and hoping to take home a cache of information, technological advances, and sound science that could be applied on the Great Lakes of Africa.

IISD in the news June 11, 2022

Hopes fly for WTO fishing subsidies' deal at Geneva ministerial meeting

After talking about saving the world's fish stocks for 20 years, there is a whiff of optimism that the World Trade Organization (WTO) might be ready to clinch a deal to stop a fish meltdown on the planet.

IISD in the news June 10, 2022

Why hydrogen is not the answer to petrostates' woes

As the world's energy systems transition from those largely fuelled by hydrocarbons to those largely powered by renewables, there will be a profound shift in where our energy comes from.

IISD in the news June 9, 2022

Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Progress and promising examples

This document is the third in a series of synthesis reports that assess progress on gender-responsive approaches in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes at the global level. The progress shown in this report demonstrates the potential of NAP processes as a mechanism for ensuring that climate action addresses gender and social inequalities.

Report June 9, 2022

Increasing Fiscal Space in Times of Economic Uncertainty: The G20 Energy Communiqué and Leaders’ Declaration

This webinar explores how G20 governments can safeguard carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidy reform within the Communiqué and G20 Leaders’ Declaration.

Webinar June 8, 2022

Maria Barral

Person June 8, 2022

New Analysis—What IPCC energy pathways tell us about Paris-aligned policies

A new report crunches the numbers on the latest IPCC data and concludes that global oil and gas production and consumption must decrease 30% by 2030.

Press release June 8, 2022

World Takes Steps Towards Global Treaty To End Plastic Pollution

In Dakar, Senegal on Monday, the world took the first step towards a treaty to end plastic pollution. Delegates attending the ad hoc open-ended working group (OEWG) to prepare for the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, convened for a two-and-a-half day meeting from May 30 to June 1. The meeting is focusing on organisational issues for the coming INC negotiations.

IISD in the news June 8, 2022

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