Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transformational adaptation
This policy brief focuses on how cities can build resilience to climate change through transformational adaptation.
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Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transportation infrastructure
This policy brief examines ways of building resilient urban transportation infrastructure to reduce exposure to natural hazards, decrease potential risks by implementing mitigation measures and enhance adaptive capacity in a changing climate.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Water supply and sanitation systems
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in the water supply and sanitation system as a contribution to urban resilience building.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Electricity and information and communication technology infrastructure
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in energy and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as a contribution to building urban resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: The built environment
This policy brief looks at ways to cities can foster resilience in the built environment.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Disaster preparedness and emergency management
This policy brief examines the potential implications of climate change for disaster preparedness and emergency management in Alberta’s cities, and presents options by which the resilience of these systems may be enhanced.
Professors, students, advocates take to the streets in March for Science rally
Michael Paterson, a senior research scientist with IISD Experimental Lakes Area, said the days when scientific research was widely accepted based on data are on the wane. "Sadly, when you look at what is going on in the world, that's not the case," Paterson said. "Support for science is diminishing everywhere. If we don't speak out, leaders forget."
Report highlights jobs and revenue impact of automation in mining
“Our analysis suggests that host countries will increasingly be at risk of reduced socioeconomic benefits from mining as existing new technologies are further rolled out in the near and medium terms,” says report lead author and IISD development economist Aaron Cosbey.
Can Canada help rid the world of toxic pollution?
"In an increasingly isolationist world, with governmental polices around the globe turning inward, we cannot forget that nations must work together if we are to effectively tackle our most pressing environmental crises. Climate change, pollutants, chemicals—none of these respect national borders as they travel freely between our countries, wreaking whatever havoc they may."
UK is in no position to lecture Saudis on oil dependence
PM Theresa May has offered to help wean Saudi Arabia off oil, but her government’s subsidies to North Sea producers are a poor model for the Middle East petrostate.