Newsroom Media Coverage View IISD's latest media coverage from around the world. Press Media Coverage What's new in sustainable development Recent news coverage about IISD Displaying 1561 - 1580 of 2009 Native Planet: Lake Winnipeg In episode four, season two of APTN's Native Planet, Hank Venema talks about why the prairies need to adapt to the onslaught of climate change, and Richard Grosshans explains what will happen to Lake Winnipeg if we don't take action now. IISD in the news APTN September 29, 2017 Roundtable: What's causing extreme weather? "Ferocious storms, bigger floods, more devastation. Extreme weather events are getting worse. Do towns and cities need better infrastructure to cope?" Anne Hammill joins a roundtable debate. IISD in the news TRT World September 27, 2017 What Canada Needs to Do Now (But Isn’t) to Prevent the Worst Impacts of Climate Change “The benefits are very high compared to the costs,” said Hank Venema, planning director at the Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre. “But it’s different than the way that governments have traditionally viewed these kinds of expenditures: they’ve looked upon it as just capital expense and not risk reduction and rural economic development and habitat benefit.” IISD in the news DeSmog Canada September 21, 2017 Canada deploys 'multi-pronged' lobbying to counter Trump's EPA cuts "North of the border, Amin Asadollahi, co-chair of the Green Budget Coalition and North American lead for climate mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said ENERGY STAR has helped businesses and Canadians reduce their energy costs and carbon pollution." IISD in the news National Observer September 21, 2017 Cities And The SDGs: An Interdependent Partnership "We need to make the SDGs more central to city planning and cities more central to the achievement of the SDGs." IISD in the news Huffington Post September 20, 2017 Opinion: The SDGs are good enough and it's time to stop analyzing and start acting "The SDGs may represent our last chance to transition to a world characterized by justice, opportunity, peace, and stability. We must do everything possible not to miss this chance. That means accepting that the stage settings are good enough, and getting on with the play. Whether or not it turns out to be a tragedy is up to us." IISD in the news Devex September 20, 2017 What will Canada’s energy future look like? "Amin Asadollahi is the North American lead on climate change mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He doesn’t see an overnight elimination of hydrocarbons, but envisions the adoption of sustainable energy sources as an inexorable movement toward greater efficiency as well as an environmental imperative." IISD in the news Ottawa Citizen September 17, 2017 Together, Canada, China and the EU Can Fill Trump's Climate Leadership Void "Canada, the European Union and China are sending a powerful signal that they are willing to fill the leadership void created by the Trump Administration backing out of the Paris agreement. This weekend’s summit in Montreal offers the chance for governments to raise their collective efforts and demonstrate how they are leading by example." IISD in the news AlterNet September 16, 2017 Time for results on Lake Winnipeg "Our politicians must seize this opportunity and invest it wisely in the best interests of Lake Winnipeg. Let’s not find ourselves reading the same disappointing evaluation in another five years, with plenty of money spent, but no real improvements." IISD in the news Winnipeg Free Press September 12, 2017 IISD-ELA scientist to study effects of oil spills in freshwater ecosystems "Vince Palace is the head research coordinator for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which operates the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) southeast of Kenora, led a community information night at Knox United Church on Thursday, Sept. 7 about the research the facility will be conducting on how spills affect freshwater ecosystems." IISD in the news Kenora Daily Miner and News September 11, 2017 Does The Data Security Risk Of A Billion Indians Handing Over Biometric Information Outweigh The Benefits? "But some say Nilekani grossly overestimates the savings. “It’s a lie—most of the de-duplication that the government claims has been dealt with without the use of Aadhaar,” says agricultural economist R. Ramakumar from Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences. List-based de-duplication—getting officials to “sit with the local data to identify who came from the same address”—was reported to be 15 to 20 times more effective than Aadhaar-based de-duplication, Ramakumar says, citing a 2016 study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a Canada-based research organization." IISD in the news Newsweek September 3, 2017 Physical activity in Winnipeg falls below national average "As Winnipeggers gear up for back to school and fall recreational programs data released Wednesday from Peg shows physical activity in Winnipeg is lower than the majority of Canada. Data released by Statistics Canada shows that in 2014 52.4 per cent of Winnipeggers were only ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’ physically active during leisure time down from the 54.3 per cent five years earlier." IISD in the news CTV Winnipeg August 24, 2017 What You Need to Know About NAFTA’s Investigation into Oilsands Tailings Leaks "Aaron Cosbey, senior associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development and expert on environmental issues pertaining to international trade, said in an interview with DeSmog Canada that there was a great deal of opposition to the deal at the time of signing, especially from the environmental community. Much of the concern related to the expectation that a lot of low-wage work would be relocated to Mexico, with laxer environmental laws and regulations." IISD in the news DeSmog Canada August 22, 2017 Lake trout adjust to the effects of climate change CTV News Winnipeg report on IISD Experimental Lakes Area's latest findings that lake trout are adapting their behaviour to the effects of climate change. IISD in the news CTV News Winnipeg August 17, 2017 Dans les lacs, la truite s'adapte aux changements climatiques, selon une étude (French-language article) « La truite réagit rapidement aux changements de la température de l'eau. Aussitôt que la température devient trop élevée, le poisson quitte les eaux peu profondes, et biologiquement plus productives pour s'aventurer dans les parties les plus profondes du lac où la nourriture se fait plus rare, explique Matthew Guzzo. Et lorsqu'un prédateur de cette envergure est contraint de changer de régime, cela a des conséquences non seulement sur lui, mais sur toute la chaîne alimentaire. » IISD in the news CBC Radio-Canada August 15, 2017 Lake trout 'a canary in a coal mine' for climate change: researcher "Researchers watched the feeding habits of lake trout at the IISD Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario over an 11-year span and found the fish can quickly adapt their behaviour — moving to deeper and cooler parts of the lake to feed — as water temperatures rise." IISD in the news CBC Manitoba August 15, 2017 Why Engaging Civil Society Organizations is Key for the SDGs "The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a shared agenda for all of us. Practically, this means that there are numerous entry points in which to engage: from consultations and defining new policies and programs, to implementing specific goals, to changing cultures, behaviours and practices — all necessary to realize the transformative potential of the SDGs." IISD in the news Huffington Post August 10, 2017 Horgan government urged to resist oilpatch calls for subsidies "Amin Asadollahi, North American lead on climate change mitigation for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, fundamentally disagreed with CAPP’s climate logic. Fluctuating market prices, he explained, ultimately have a much bigger impact on the industry’s returns than B.C.’s carbon tax — which companies can actually write off on their taxes as an expense." IISD in the news National Observer August 9, 2017 New Coalition Call for Carbon Pricing in Manitoba IISD in the news CTV News August 3, 2017 New Manitoba coalition pushes premier to put price on carbon "The Manitoba Carbon Pricing Coalition launched on the steps of the Legislative Building on Thursday morning. The group plans to push the provincial government to put a price on carbon. The coalition is made up of climate activists and public policy experts from groups including the Green Action Centre and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives." IISD in the news CBC Manitoba August 3, 2017 Pagination « First ‹ Previous … Page 77 Page 78 Current page 79 Page 80 Page 81 … Next › Last »