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Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy Could Reach Cost Parity With New Thermal Plants in India by 2030

New research finds that firm and dispatchable renewable energy (FDRE) can match the cost of new thermal power plants in India with the possibility of achieving cost parity as early as 2025. FDRE is already cheaper than new coal when the full social costs of thermal power plants are considered.

Press release December 9, 2025

Toward a More Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chain Supporting Indonesia’s Energy Transition

Evidence-based policy brief on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards for Indonesia's nickel industry to support a responsible energy transition.

Brief December 9, 2025

Validation Workshop to Support Papua New Guinea’s Preparation for Implementing the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

Workshop to present and discuss the results of IISD’s self-assessment tool to support Papua New Guinea in preparing for the ratification and implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies.

Workshop December 8, 2025

Why Industrial Policy-making Is the Key to Unlocking Gains From Industrial Policy

Prof. David Luke and Hana AlWakeel argue that unlocking the gains of industrial policy depends on strengthening policy-making capacity, making it more adaptive, consultative, and transboundary—specifically in Africa.

Policy Analysis December 8, 2025

Rethinking Industrial Policy for the Services Economy

Pierre Sauvé explores what industrial policy looks like in a services-driven economy, highlighting the need for policies that create the conditions for services to flourish and drive growth across the entire economy.

Policy Analysis December 8, 2025

Nepal’s Textiles and Clothing Exports

As Nepal approaches graduation from least-developed country status, Paras Kharel, Kshitiz Dahal, and Dikshya Singh explore the challenges facing the country’s textiles and clothing sector and outline the policy shifts needed to preserve its competitiveness.

Policy Analysis December 8, 2025

Agriculture and the Green Transition

David Laborde examines how industrial policy can draw on agriculture’s long history of state intervention and how emerging green industrial strategies are poised to reshape agriculture in return.

Policy Analysis December 8, 2025

New report backs Canada's ambition to be energy superpower as Ottawa, B.C. tout LNG

A new report is giving fresh support to Canada's ambition to be an energy superpower as the federal and B.C. governments push for increased exports of liquefied natural gas. But in a recent analysis, IISD rejects the portrayal of LNG as a transition fuel, warning that there are potent methane emissions, which contribute to climate change, during the production of natural gas through fracking.

IISD in the news December 8, 2025

Budgeting for Net Zero: Powering India's reliable clean energy future

This report assesses the cost competitiveness of firm and dispatchable renewable energy (FDRE) relative to new thermal power in India through 2050, any government support needed to accelerate FDRE uptake as the cost-effective generation option, and the macroeconomic implications of scaling FDRE.

Report December 8, 2025

Digital Dividends or Dependency? Industrial policy in the age of digital economies

Drawing on Kenya’s digital economy, Kitrhona Cerri and Maria Mexi argue that without stronger data governance, labour protections, and mechanisms for domestic value capture, digitalization could lead to dependency rather than supporting inclusive industrial development.

Policy Analysis December 5, 2025

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Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy Could Reach Cost Parity With New Thermal Plants in India by 2030

Toward a More Responsible Critical Minerals Supply Chain Supporting Indonesia’s Energy Transition

Validation Workshop to Support Papua New Guinea’s Preparation for Implementing the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

Why Industrial Policy-making Is the Key to Unlocking Gains From Industrial Policy

Rethinking Industrial Policy for the Services Economy

Nepal’s Textiles and Clothing Exports

Agriculture and the Green Transition

New report backs Canada's ambition to be energy superpower as Ottawa, B.C. tout LNG

Budgeting for Net Zero: Powering India's reliable clean energy future

Digital Dividends or Dependency? Industrial policy in the age of digital economies