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Event to demonstrate local, renewable energy source that also keeps our waterways clean
What if there were a way to reduce the amount of harmful nutrients that enter our urban waterways and eventually Lake Winnipeg, and at the same time create a locally-sourced, renewable, organic source of energy? On Wednesday April 23, 2014, at 9:45 a.m. at the Living Prairie Museum, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in partnership with the City of Winnipeg, will be hosting an event to demonstrate how pellets of cattails and grasses, sourced from Winnipeg, can be burned to generate clean energy and also improve the health of our city’s waterways.
It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use
Forbes discusses an IISD research report on EU biofuels policies to determine how valuable corn biofuel is to us.
Meeting China’s Global Resource Needs Managing Sustainability Impacts to Ensure Security of Supply: The IISD Supply Risk Tool Methodology
China’s large and growing inbound supply chains are among the most direct ways in which China’s rise impacts economies worldwide.
Meeting China’s Global Resource Needs and Managing Sustainability Impacts to Ensure Security of Supply: Copper Pilot Study
China’s large and growing inbound supply chains are among the most direct ways in which China’s rise impacts economies worldwide.
Meeting China’s Global Resource Needs and Managing Sustainability Impacts to Ensure Security of Supply: Synthesis Report
This paper outlines and tests a commodity-by-commodity framework for assessing sustainability risks and vulnerability for importers. The framework is designed to be applied both at the enterprise (micro) level and at the national (macro) level.
Innovative tools help communities, development practitioners and government officials build food systems resilient to climate change
As the potentially disastrous effects of climate change become more apparent, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has developed two innovative tools to help communities and decision-makers around the world measure and safeguard the resilience of their food systems in the face of such change and uncertainty.