Tusentals miljarder i stöd till olja, kol och gas
(Swedish-language article) "Ett sådant nätverk är GSI, Global Subsidies Initiative. Laura Merrill vid GSI säger att de låga oljepriserna gör att de statliga stöden lättare kan minskas."
(Swedish-language article) "Ett sådant nätverk är GSI, Global Subsidies Initiative. Laura Merrill vid GSI säger att de låga oljepriserna gör att de statliga stöden lättare kan minskas."
“If you’re moving from mines that employ 5,000 to 10,000 people down to 500 or 1,000, then you’re obviously not going to get the same amount of local jobs,” says Howard Mann, senior adviser on international law at International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and co-author of a recent study on the impact of automation in the mining sector."
"“It was our natural capital that drove us into first place,” says Robert Smith, lead author of a study done in conjunction with the International Institute for Sustainable Development that looks at Canada in terms of its comprehensive wealth."
"When the government announced they would no longer fund the ELA, there was a public outcry, says the ELA's current executive director, Matthew McCandless"
"“If we are going to increase renewable and micro-renewable generation, we need to (first) enable people to sell to the grid,” said Amin Asadollahi, the lead on climate change mitigation for North America at the International Institute for Sustainable Development."
"But Canada can also send its own clean energy south of the border, added Amin Asadollahi of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Through regional pacts and state-level alliances, he said Canada may be able to counter some of the effects of Trump's support for pipelines and the emissions-heavy coal industry."
"Prairie municipalities preparing for a hotter future, with increasing spring floods and summer drought, need to invest in “green infrastructure” the head of Winnipeg’s Prairie Climate Centre says."
(French-language article) "Une étude diffusée plus tôt ce mois-ci par la Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI ou Initiative sur les subventions mondiales) ... rapporte que la suppression des subventions à la production de combustibles fossiles équivaudrait à éliminer toutes les émissions du secteur international de l'aviation."
"Transformations in mining techniques have the potential to change the way mining companies maintain their social licence to operate," argue Aaron Cosbey and Howard Mann.
IISD-ELA executive director Matthew McCandless writes to the editor of the Globe and Mail to explain why, when looking to ensure First Nations' access to water, we must consider waste water treatment.