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Expertise Directory

IISD prides itself on the wide range of expertise in sustainable development. Our experts cover many larger topics in addition to more niche, granular topics.

This is a full list of all of the areas of expertise that our experts cover.

Click an area of expertise from the list below:

+ Adaptive governance and policy
+ African regional bodies
+ Agribusiness and sustainability
+ Agricultural biodiversity
+ Agricultural transformation
+ Agriculture
+ Agriculture, forestry and watershed planning
+ Agroecology
+ Air dispersion modelling
+ Air quality
+ Algal blooms
+ Asian and comparative law
+ Big data
+ Biodiversity
+ Biofuels
+ Biomass
+ Border carbon adjustment
+ Business model innovation
+ Capital markets
+ Carbon markets
+ Carbon pricing
+ Cartography
+ Chemistry
+ Clean energy transition
+ Climate change adaptation
+ Climate change and energy policy
+ Climate change and governance
+ Climate change and security
+ Climate change and small state economies
+ Climate change and water
+ Climate change mitigation
+ Climate risk management
+ Collaborative technology
+ Commercial fishing
+ Conflict and natural resources
+ Conflict and peacebuilding
+ Conflict minerals
+ Conflict resolution and negotiation theory
+ Conservation
+ Conservation and climate change
+ Conservation and conflict
- Contaminants
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+ Corporate social responsibility
+ Cross-border renewable energy governance
+ Data visualization
+ Decarbonization (Industry)
+ Decarbonization (Transportation)
+ Eco-toxicity testing protocols
+ Economic development
+ Economic inclusion
+ Economics and renewable energy
+ Ecosystem-based adaptation
+ Education
+ Emission inventories and mitigation strategies
+ Emissions modelling
+ Employment and social policy
+ Ending hunger
+ Energy (Alternative technology)
+ Energy (Nuclear)
+ Energy and sustainable supplies
+ Energy efficiency
+ Energy management
+ Energy price forecasting
+ Energy pricing
+ Energy reform
+ Energy sector and private participation
+ Environment and social impact assessment
+ Environment and social standards in mining
+ Environmental issues in conflict and peacebuilding
+ Environmental project management
+ Fair trade
+ Finance and housing in Canadian Arctic
+ First Nations
+ Fish biology
+ Fish ecology
+ Food security
+ Forest degredation
+ Fossil fuel subsidies
+ Free trade (North America)
+ Freshwater fish
+ Freshwater protection
+ Freshwater scarcity
+ GDP
+ Gender
+ Gender and energy
+ Geography
+ Geomatics
+ Global political economy
+ Global value chains
+ Governance
+ Grasslands
+ Green bonds
+ Green economy strategies
+ Green tariffs for renewable energy
+ Greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy
+ Greenhouse gas impacts on environmental goods and services agreements
+ Human rights
+ Hydrologic futures analysis
+ Hydrology
+ Income distribution
+ Indicators
+ Indigenous governance systems
+ Indigenous rights
+ Industrial competitiveness
+ Infrastructure financing
+ Innovation in business
+ Intellectual property
+ Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals and Metals
+ Intergovernmental policy
+ Intergovernmental processes
+ International and comparative law
+ International and regional trade law
+ International development bodies
+ International economic governance
+ International economic law
+ International investment agreements
+ International law
+ International negotiations
+ International organizations
+ International taxation
+ Invasive species
+ Investment (Agriculture)
+ Investment (Arbitration)
+ Investment (Chinese sustainable)
+ Investment (Clean energy)
+ Investment (Energy efficiency)
+ Investment (Foreign)
+ Investment (Mining)
+ Investment and sustainable development
+ Investment law
+ Investment treaties
+ Investor-State contracts
+ Investor-State Dispute Settlement
+ Knowledge dissemination
+ Knowledge sharing and technology
+ Labor
+ Land policies
+ Land rights
+ Local currency financing in frontier countries
+ Local employment
+ Mapping
+ Measures of progress
+ Mercury
+ Mining (Artisanal)
+ Mining (Industry)
+ Mining and development
+ Mining and local benefits
+ Mining issues (Law, conflict, conservation)
+ Model contracts
+ Model treaties
+ Modern contracts law
+ Multilateral environmental governance
+ Natural capital
+ Natural resource management
+ Nature-based solutions in urban sustainability
+ Northern transportation
+ Oil and gas development
+ Optimizing risk allocation
+ Participatory planning
+ Poverty alleviation
+ Private sector environmental risks
+ Public procurement
+ Public-private partnerships
+ Reducing deforestation emissions
+ Refugees and human rights
+ Renewable energy
+ Resilience building in rural communities
+ Resilience theory and measurement
+ Resource valuation and regulation
+ Risk management for small and medium-sized enterprise loan securitization
+ Scenario development
+ Science education
+ Seed law
+ Small-scale farming
+ Social innovation
+ Socio-ecological systems
+ Statistical analysis
+ Subsidies (Agriculture)
+ Subsidies (Fishing)
+ Subsidies (Industry)
+ Supply chain management
+ Sustainability accounting and regulation
+ Sustainability and vulnerable peoples
+ Sustainability assessments
+ Sustainable Development Goals
+ Sustainable finance
+ Sustainable food systems
+ Sustainable markets
+ Sustainable resource extraction programs
+ System dynamics
+ Tax base erosion and profit shifting in mining
+ The Arctic
+ Toxicology
+ Trade
+ Trade and development
+ Trade and investment law
+ Trade and the environment
+ Trade negotiations
+ Treaties
+ UNFCCC processes
+ Voluntary sustainability standards
+ Wastewater
+ Water management
+ Water policy
+ Water quality
+ Watersheds
+ Wetlands
+ Zooplankton