How to Protect Fresh Water from Oil Spills
This episode looks at what freshwater scientists are trying to accomplish by spilling oil into a remote lake and the unusual solution they've found to help clean up future oil spills.
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Prairie Wildfire Risk in a Changing Climate
This webinar focused on fire risk in the Canadian Prairies, projecting change due to climate change and how levels of governments are reducing these risks and protecting communities.
International Governance
IISD improves multilateralism through greater transparency and accountability, recognizing that progress on sustainable development must be pursued at all levels of governance.
Bridging the Fossil Fuel Production Gap for a Just and Resilient Recovery
This London Climate Action Week Event will feature researchers and government and UN officials to preview the 2020 Production Gap Report.
Gender-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviours, and Practices (KABP) Analysis of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Coordination Mechanisms in the Caribbean
Individual and institutional biases and discriminatory behaviours related to gender can undermine progress on gender-responsive climate change adaptation and disaster risk management (DRM). Changing attitudes and practices in key institutions can lead to more equitable outcomes on the ground.
Global Market Report: Cotton
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards are performing in the cotton sector.
The USMCA Is Now In Force. How Will it Impact North American Trade Policy?
The new accord governs a multi-trillion dollar market and is expected to face heavy scrutiny within the three countries, especially during a U.S. election year.
Toward Strategic Public Procurement in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper presents four best practice case studies and key ingredients of procurement reform to enable the shift toward strategic public procurement for sustainable development.
What is tanzanite? It just made this man a millionaire. And proved African mining reforms can work.
Earlier this week, a small-scale miner in Tanzania made headlines around the world when he became a multimillionaire overnight after selling to the government two of the largest tanzanite rocks ever unearthed.
Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Resilient Supply Chains: Bananas, cotton, palm oil, and soybeans
Join us to learn about and discuss the key findings from the recent reports in the Sustainable Commodities Marketplace Series from the State of Sustainability Initiatives at the International Institute for Sustainable Development.