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Art meets science in a new exhibition on the climate crisis in Costa Rica

The exhibition Next Season: Art and Science in the Face of the Climate Future will kick off next Thursday, April 22, at the Costa Rican Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San Jose. Open to the public until June 19, the exhibition will showcase works depicting climate change adaptation and mitigation developed by eight artists during residencies in some of the most important scientific centres in the Central America country.

Press release April 21, 2021

Review: Health in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

Climate change has a significant effect on health, whether through heat stress, increased spread of vector-borne diseases, or harm due to extreme weather events.

Report April 21, 2021

Four Ways Sustainability Standards Can Build Farmers’ Resilience to COVID-19

We surveyed supply chain actors to ask how farmers are coping with the effects of the pandemic and whether certification has helped them adapt.

Insight April 20, 2021

Assessing and Managing Fishing Capacity in the Context of World Trade Organization Disciplines on Fisheries Subsidies

This brief provides general background on defining and measuring fishing capacity in the context of WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies

Brief April 20, 2021

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Agroforestry Nature-Based Infrastructure in Welkenraedt (Belgium)

This report describes the Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) assessment of an agroforestry project in the municipality of Welkenraedt, Belgium.

Report April 20, 2021

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Paterson Park's Building Infrastructure: City of Johannesburg (South Africa)

The assessment of Paterson Park's building infrastructure is one of the use cases demonstrating the value of integrating climate data from the Copernicus database into SAVi.

Report April 20, 2021

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Stormwater Infrastructure Solutions in Johannesburg, South Africa

A SAVi assessment of grey-green infrastructure upgrade options for stormwater infrastructure in the Paterson Park Precinct, Johannesburg.

Report April 20, 2021

Coping with COVID-19: Certification supports farmer resilience

This policy brief presents findings from primary research investigating how voluntary sustainability standards can help smallholder farmers be more resilient during crises.

Brief April 19, 2021

Fuelling the Recovery

Experience from India shows that increasing taxes on gasoline and diesel are a politically and economically viable way for Indonesia to boost revenues for COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery.

Brief April 19, 2021

How the four main federal parties’ climate plans stack up

Infused throughout the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling that Parliament acted constitutionally when it passed the Liberal government’s carbon pricing law is the logic that the provinces are incapable of fully acting on the climate crisis themselves.

IISD in the news April 16, 2021

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Art meets science in a new exhibition on the climate crisis in Costa Rica

Review: Health in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

Four Ways Sustainability Standards Can Build Farmers’ Resilience to COVID-19

Assessing and Managing Fishing Capacity in the Context of World Trade Organization Disciplines on Fisheries Subsidies

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Agroforestry Nature-Based Infrastructure in Welkenraedt (Belgium)

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Paterson Park's Building Infrastructure: City of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Stormwater Infrastructure Solutions in Johannesburg, South Africa

Coping with COVID-19: Certification supports farmer resilience

Fuelling the Recovery

How the four main federal parties’ climate plans stack up