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The world’s greatest challenges don’t always have simple answers. Going beyond the surface is critical when it comes to solving global problems. Our experts know how important it is to look back at history and consider the big picture if we want to find solutions that work.

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Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability: A landmark pact for trade and sustainability

The ACCTS pact, signed by Costa Rica, Iceland, New Zealand, and Switzerland, aligns trade and environmental policies, tackling fossil fuel subsidies, eco-labels, and green trade.

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December 13, 2024

Addressing Carbon Leakage: A toolkit

As countries adopt ambitious climate policies, this toolkit examines strategies to prevent carbon leakage – when production and emissions shift to nations with weaker climate policies – and explores the trade-offs of each approach.

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December 5, 2024

Powering the Clean Energy Transition: Net-Zero electricity in Canada

This brief explains how a shift to clean power generation can offer affordable, reliable electricity, benefiting households and businesses alike.

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December 2, 2024

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Why Canada’s Energy Security Hinges on Renewables

This deep dive into the evidence shows investing in clean, flexible, and reliable electricity grids is the best option to increase Canadians' energy security, particularly long-term affordability.

Deep Dive October 3, 2022

Why Canada Needs to Plan for a Steep Decline in Global Oil Demand

This analysis demonstrates that Canada can expect global oil demand to permanently decline in the very near term, as electric vehicle uptake and other societal changes pick up speed.

Deep Dive September 16, 2022

Preparing Financing Strategies for Adaptation: Emerging good practices

Amid a growing interest in the preparation of financing strategies for adaptation, new research aims to unpack what the scope of these strategies should entail, what constitutes good practices for their development, and whether these strategies are truly effective.

Deep Dive August 25, 2022

Why Canadian Liquefied Natural Gas Is Not the Answer for the European Union’s Short-Term Energy Needs

This investigation shows that Canadian LNG infrastructure would come too late to address Europe’s energy security needs and offer little benefit to Canada’s economy.

Deep Dive August 16, 2022

What We Heard From the Global Stocktake's First Technical Dialogue on Adaptation

The Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement is now underway. At its first Technical Dialogue in Bonn in June 2022, what did participants say about climate change adaptation and what does it mean for global adaptation ambition?

Deep Dive August 11, 2022

The Legacies of the Stockholm Conference

Fifty years after Stockholm, we face a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Deep Dive June 1, 2022

Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World

Successful disaster risk reduction requires both top-down, institutional changes and strategies and bottom-up, local, community-based approaches.

Deep Dive May 23, 2022

The Roots of Forest Loss and Forest Governance

If lessons from past failures on deforestation are learned, forest protection could play a major role in reversing both climate change and biodiversity loss.

Deep Dive May 9, 2022

Pathways to Sustainable Cities

Urban planning needs to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of local communities and build on participatory approaches that foster the engagement of marginalized actors.

Deep Dive April 28, 2022

Indigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for All

International environmental negotiations need to go beyond tokenistic participation of Indigenous Peoples to a genuine integration of their worldviews and knowledge.

Deep Dive April 22, 2022

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Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability: A landmark pact for trade and sustainability

Addressing Carbon Leakage: A toolkit

Powering the Clean Energy Transition: Net-Zero electricity in Canada

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