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NBI Academy: 5-Week Live Online Program

The NBI Academy combines online materials with interactive Zoom sessions, allowing you to ask experts questions, exchange experiences with other participants from around the world, and dive deeper into the course topics in real-time exercises.

Workshop September 12, 2023

IISD at the WTO Public Forum 2023

IISD will be taking part in various sessions at the WTO’s Public Forum, an annual event that brings together the international trade community to discuss new and emerging trends, including how trade and trade policy can enable a sustainable, inclusive recovery.

Conference September 12, 2023

Guiding Principles for the Preparation of Financing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries

This report provides seven guiding principles for effective financing strategies for climate change adaptation prepared by developing country governments.

Report September 12, 2023

Global Market Report: Sugar cane prices and sustainability

This report explores recent market trends in the sugar cane sector, what these trends mean for producers in developing countries, and what can be done to improve farmers' incomes.

Report September 12, 2023

New Report Finds Carbon Capture And Storage Far Too Expensive

A new report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development found carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to be very expensive in Canada. According to the report, which focuses on carbon capture in the context of Canada's oil and gas industry, the climate solution’s persistently high costs are rooted in the "high design complexity and the need for customization."

IISD in the news September 11, 2023

Ananias Mfuni

Person September 11, 2023

G20 Summit Agreement Fails To Strengthen Coal Phase-Down Even As Data Show High Per Capita Coal Emissions

As world leaders gather in New Delhi for the Group of 20 (G20) Summit–with 19 member countries and the European Union–data show that a majority of the group still has very high per capita coal power emissions. At the summit, countries agreed to "pursue further efforts" to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius, agreeing to "encourage efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally" but the G20 New Delhi Leaders Declaration included no new commitment on phasedown of coal power or on phasing down all fossil fuels.

IISD in the news September 10, 2023

G20 aims to triple renewable energy capacity; no mention of fossil-fuel phase-out

G20 countries on Saturday said they will aim to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030 and expedite efforts to phase down coal power in line with national circumstances but did not commit to a phase-out of all polluting fossil fuels, including oil and gas.

IISD in the news September 9, 2023

Evidence on Gender, Equity, and Justice for Effective Adaptation

This project summarizes key messages on gender, equity, and justice from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, making them accessible to adaptation practitioners.

Project September 9, 2023

Lake lessons from East Africa

On a sweaty Friday afternoon, a few hours delayed, and with one suitcase fewer than when I set off, I finally landed down in the 'Peg after a 20-hour journey from my homeland of Kenya. For years, I had been aching to visit the province of 100,000 lakes. While, lamentably, I won’t be able to visit them all on this trip, seeing Lake Winnipeg in person was an unbridled delight, as was jumping in an SUV and heading over to another famed freshwater must-see of the region—the IISD Experimental Lakes Area.

IISD in the news September 8, 2023