Financing Green Infrastructure
Oshani Perera speaks to Laura Penn of Dukascopy, explaining the challenges involved in commissioning and financing green infrastructure.
Oshani Perera speaks to Laura Penn of Dukascopy, explaining the challenges involved in commissioning and financing green infrastructure.
"“We’ve done a lot of consultation with the International Institute of Sustainable Development (on the issue). They did broad consultations. So as we go to Paris, we’ll be talking to the federal government about what we want to do together as a country,” said [Greg] Selinger."
"India’s consumption of subsidized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) grew at 18% last financial year, the highest annual growth rate recorded in the past decade, International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) has said. At the same time, consumption of unsubsidized LPG decreased by 19%, the largest decrease recorded in more than ten years."
IISD Experimental Lakes Area expert Scott Higgins talks about the potential for a zebra mussels infestation in Shoal Lake, Manitoba.
"The Prairie Climate Centre provides stakeholders in Manitoba and across the Prairies with this kind of upto-date and high-quality data depicting the nature of climate changes expected to occur, said Henry (Hank) Venema, director of planning for the centre, which will be housed at the University of Winnipeg’s Richardson College for the Environment."
"Investment by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in fossil fuel production represented a large portion of overall government support, says a research study from IISD."
"While zebra mussels are a growing concern on Lake Winnipeg and neighboring bodies of water, one local researcher says that doesn’t mean people should throw up their hands and say it’s a lost cause. “Zebra mussels invaded Lake Erie in 1986, they are still there….and the fishery in Lake Erie is doing very well,” Scott Higgins said. “Water quality has some issues in western Lake Erie, partially it’s related to zebra mussels but in large parts it’s not. Many of these are the same problems we face in Lake Winnipeg.”"
"Scott Vaughan, president and CEO of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Canada’s former federal environment commissioner, said the Paris talks are critical because climate science has become so “absolutely clear” in the last few years that it demands countries act now."
(French-language article) « C’est compliqué. Parce que ces subventions sont là au départ pour une raison, souligne Ivetta Gerasimchuk, chercheuse à l’Institut international du développement durable (IISD). Si vous les retirez, il faut offrir quelque chose en retour, il faut notamment continuer de protéger les groupes vulnérables socialement en les ciblant précisément. »
Our president, Scott Vaughan, explains to the Globe and Mail the work IISD is doing towards a low-carbon economy.