Lake Winnipeg Foundation: Manitobans Want Action on Sewage Treatment
A survey shows that nearly two-thirds of Manitoba adults (65 per cent) agree that upgrading Winnipeg’s north end sewage treatment plant should be “a very urgent priority.”
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The Multiple Benefits of Natural Infrastructure
Natural infrastructure is an area or system that is either naturally occurring or naturalized and then intentionally managed to provide multiple benefits for the environment and human well-being. How humans and the environment can gain from it?
International Investment Law and Sustainable Development: Key cases from the 2010s
This e-book features 10 summaries and analyses of decisions rendered between 2011 and 2018 by arbitral tribunals in treaty-based investor–state arbitration cases having sustainable development implications.
Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 3, October 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
What the UN panel's special climate change report means for Canada
In the wake of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this article looks at how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.
Data project to support smallholder farmers with goal of ending hunger
How can donors best invest their money to support the world’s poorest farmers to improve productivity, support their families and end hunger across the globe by 2030? This is the question driving Ceres2030, an initiative launched at the annual meeting of the Committee on World Food Security.
IISD Best Practices Series: Security for Costs
This IISD Best Practices paper explores challenges for states in obtaining orders for security of costs and provides model treaty language designed to help overcome those challenges.
Launch of Ceres2030: Sustainable solutions to end hunger
The goal of this new initiative is to build the evidence base to achieve the SDGs.
Report shows Nigeria can eradicate poverty with agriculture
A new research by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has indicated that Nigeria meet the criteria needed for food security, employment generation and wealth multiplication through agriculture.
Nordhaus Nobel Recognizes What We've Long Known: Carbon pricing works
In 1984, Nordhaus concluded climate change is real, its impacts are global and comparable to economic depression, and it's likely to occur in sudden jolts.