Expert Alert: Mercury and Fresh Water
IISD Experimental Lakes Area is able to offer expertise to media on the effects of mercury on fresh water.
"“It was our natural capital that drove us into first place,” says Robert Smith, lead author of a study done in conjunction with the International Institute for Sustainable Development that looks at Canada in terms of its comprehensive wealth."
“If you’re moving from mines that employ 5,000 to 10,000 people down to 500 or 1,000, then you’re obviously not going to get the same amount of local jobs,” says Howard Mann, senior adviser on international law at International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and co-author of a recent study on the impact of automation in the mining sector."