Experts offer fresh ideas to ensure trade is catalyst for development
Mark Halle's contribution to the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board on global trade and economic development.
Mark Halle's contribution to the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board on global trade and economic development.
“According to a 2012 study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Chinese firms had invested in at least 8.3 million hectares of farmland in developing countries.”
“We are extremely pleased to join The University of Winnipeg team and look forward to building strong ties with the university in a variety of disciplines,” said [Dr. Michael] Paterson.
This short TV spot shows some of the highlights of the launch of the Green Public Procurement in Bhutan project. Oshani Perera is interviewed.
Highly readable blog post from Mariana Hug Silva detailing five immediate actions to make energy efficiency in India bankable.
“In 2008 alone, Canada’s federal and provincial governments gave up $2.84 billion through tax breaks to oil companies, the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development reported in 2010.”
Spanish-language article. Reports on a recent workshop conducted in Loreto, Mexico to discuss and demonstrate the latest CRiSTAL Parks tool.
Ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Summit, IISD’s Simon Zadek and Nick Robins applaud the forthcoming UN SG`s Climate Summit and then highlight the need for it to signal a systemic ambition that leverages but goes beyond the direct interest actions of nations and businesses, highlighting what that would mean for the financial system aspects of the solution equation.
“For five years, the Energy Policy Institute of Canada gathered expertise and research to help the country’s decision leaders formulate a national energy strategy. Now chair of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, former EPIC president Dan Gagnier sheds light on what EPIC found, how global markets are shifting and what Canada can do to take the lead in energy transformation.”