Second global plastics meeting makes progress
The second meeting to create a global plastics agreement ended with delegates agreeing to have a draft prepared in six months’ time, despite delays at the outset of negotiations.
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Don’t Waste $15B Growth Fund on Carbon Capture, Experts Warn Ottawa
Squandering the C$15-billion Canada Growth Fund on carbon capture and storage (CCS) for the oil and gas sector would be a huge mistake, warn experts from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), arguing that the cash-trapping technology has proved ineffective over decades while better investment options have emerged.
UN Plastics Treaty: After rocky start, 170 nations agree to draw up draft agreement
Last week's crunch talks were on the 'brink of chaos', but on Friday 170 nations agreed to draw up an initial first draft of a global plastic pollution treaty by November.
EU implements carbon border adjustment policy
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is the beginning of new policies surrounding the global fight against climate change. The International Institute for Sustainable Development, an independent award-winning think tank, states that this policy development is an attempt to tackle emissions-intensive, heavily traded sectors through carbon pricing.
Leveraging the National Adaptation Plan Process for Adaptation Communications
This report explores countries' experiences leveraging the outputs and results of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to develop Adaptation Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Innovative Financial Instruments and Their Potential to Finance Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries
This report explores the range of innovative financial instruments that could be used to scale up financing for adaptation and lessons for their use in developing countries.
Decentralized Solar Plants Can Boost Farmer Incomes and Help India Meet its Climate Targets
This new guidebook provides practical solutions for state governments to unlock and speed up the rollout of the PM-KUSUM scheme in India.
New global chemicals, waste framework to include textiles: IISD
Textiles will come under a new global framework for the sustainable management of chemicals and waste that will be decided at the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in Bonn in September this year.
Factor Gender into Transportation Planning, IISD Analyst Urges Policy-Makers
Cost-benefit decisions on new transportation infrastructure that are gender-blind create a cost for women and the societies they live in, says an analyst with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
Five Ways the Global Goal on Adaptation can Help Build a Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning System for Adaptation by COP 28
With the 58th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) due to kick off in Bonn, Germany, on June 5, one of the key issues to watch in the realm of climate change adaptation are the talks on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA).