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Electric Vehicles vs. Fuel-Efficient Used Cars: Which really drives sustainability?
Debates surrounding the merits of electric vehicles versus fuel-efficient used cars have typically focused on carbon emissions and energy use only—but what of the conflict implications?
Capacity-Building Seminar on Investment Treaties and Contracts – Maputo, Mozambique
IISD and the Agency for Investment and Expert Promotion (APIEX) of Mozambique co-hosted a capacity-building seminar on investment treaties and contracts in Maputo, Mozambique, from April 18 to 20, 2018.
Carbon Pricing: Busting four major myths
We break down four common myths about renewable energy and carbon pricing.
A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA
The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been progressing along a very rocky path, with the U.S., Canada and Mexico all threatening at one point or another to exit the pact. But slow progress is being made toward a new agreement.
Kigali Water: Lessons from one of sub-Saharan Africa's first water PPPs
This World Water Day, the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) is celebrating the success of the Kigali Bulk Water Project in Rwanda’s capital.
UNCITRAL Process on ISDS Reform
This webinar sought to support governments and other stakeholders to work toward an ISDS reform agenda that works for sustainable development ahead of the UNCITRAL meeting in April 2018.
La contaminación asfixia a la economía
(Spanish-language article) “La polución atmosférica es un problema muy serio pero existen otros contaminantes que pueden ser igual o más costosos, pero nos falta la información necesaria para estar seguros”, alerta Robert Smith, investigador del Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible (IISD).
Expert meeting on International Trade and Development
This one-day meeting, Towards a Progressive Model for International Trade and Development: North- South Trade Relations and the Future of Multilateralism, aims to formulate policy recommendations for a “progressive model for international trade and development” with a view to influence future trade and development policies of the EU and beyond
Freshwater World
In this film from 1974, Giles Walker takes a look at a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments. Beautiful footage of IISD Experimental Lakes Area starts at 3:28.