IISD analysis -- Regulating Carbon Emissions in Canada-- Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Regulations: The implications of alternative proposals.
International Institute for Sustainable Development president and CEO Scott Vaughan today welcomed Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s commitment to help save the world-renowned freshwater research facility known as the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA).
Scott Vaughan appointed President and CEO of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
IISD's reaction to the revived tax incentive for biodiesel production as part of the U.S. year-end fiscal package.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development is demonstrating how innovative ecosystem management transforms a difficult environmental problem into an array of environmental, social and economic benefits.
IISD’s vision is for the Rio+20 Summit to deliver a few high-impact initiatives, like fossil-fuel subsidy reform, that will help create the enabling framework for sustainable development.
Starting with the release of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, the seventh edition of the IISD Sustainable Development Timeline highlights key meetings, events, publications and other milestones that have paved the path toward sustainability.
IISD offers primer on what delegates and participants need to know to make the most of the world gathering at United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
IISD’s Water Innovation Centre is collaborating with the Global Water System Project to host a conference on water, energy and food security in Winnipeg on May 1–4, 2012. The conference will bring together international experts, opinion leaders, policy-makers and scientists to discuss challenges and review ways to foster a sustainable approach to the development of energy and food resources through improved water management practices.
"The Roads from Rio: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiation" reviews 20 years of multilateral environmental negotiations (1992-2012) by IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin team.
IISD publishes the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, providing valuable reports and analysis from UN negotiations on climate change, biodiversity and other key sustainable development and environmental issues.
IISD’s Mind the Gap paper provides new modelling to measure the impact of Canadian efforts to reduce GHG emissions, outlines five principles to guide policy development in a regulatory environment and offers three options Canada can consider to help it reach its target.
Noted environmental economist David Sawyer to lead IISD's Ottawa-based climate change and energy program.
A sustainable trade strategy for China suggests changes for the manufacturing and energy sectors, services, voluntary standards, as well as its “trade foreign policy” as an influential member of the WTO.
Report estimates the level of oil production subsidies in Canada under a WTO definition that allows comparison with other countries. It also forecasts the fiscal, economic and environmental trade-offs of those subsidies.
Increasing pressure from the international community may be the catalyst needed to ensure fossil fuel subsidy reform is high on the climate change agenda of the G20 summit in Toronto this month.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development is encouraged that climate change is on the agenda of the G8 and G20 and urges Canada to follow-up with a solid commitment on fossil fuel subsidy reform as a critical next step.
International Institute for Sustainable Development marks 20th anniversary. International board. welcomes new president and CEO Franz Tattenbach and honours David Runnalls who retires. Appoints Stephanie Cairns, Hugo Delorme and Carlos A. Nobre as members tor replace outgoing members Gordon McBean and John Forgách who retire after six years.
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