Webinar | Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action
Watch a recording of this webinar on Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action hosted by the Prairies Regional Adaptation Collaborative (PRAC)
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The PPP Concerto
There are good reasons why privately financed infrastructure projects become significantly more expensive – and slower to complete – than planners anticipate. One solution is to bring in private financing only after a project is completed.
Integrating Investor Obligations and Corporate Accountability Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements
This report synthesizes the main points that emerged from the discussions in the expert meeting co-organized by IISD and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Versoix, Switzerland, January 11–12, 2018.
Community Indicator Systems Training Workshop
IISD is convening a training workshop to build the capacity of communities to develop and use Community Indicator Systems to track progress on local priority issues in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals.
Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger
Our mission is to provide the donor community with a menu of policy options for directing their investments, backed by the best available evidence and economic models.
Canada Takes the Lead on Methane Emissions
"In the fight against climate change, one of the most damaging greenhouse gases is also one of the least regulated. Unless new strategies are developed to measure and reduce atmospheric methane, the targets set by the Paris climate agreement are unlikely to be met."
Nutrition Financing Needs a Paradigm Shift: Save the Children
"And then we worked with the International Institute of Sustainable Development. They released a paper indicating that there’s roughly $11 billion a year required until 2030 and nutrition-sensitive [efforts] including agriculture and [water, sanitation and hygiene] and social-protection intervention. We basically added those two things up, the extrapolation plus the nutrition sensitivity."
Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2018
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
Don't put taxpayers on the hook for the Trans Mountain Pipeline
"Even the poorest developing countries are reassessing the objective of attracting any and all investment, in favour of attracting quality investment."
Media Availability: Is Canada Ready to Implement the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada has just released a report that reveals the Government of Canada is not adequately prepared to implement the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. IISD's experts are ready to respond.