Building a Climate-Resilient City: Economics and finance
This policy brief focuses on economic and financial measures to build cities' resilience to climate change.
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Building a Climate-Resilient City: Agriculture and food security
This policy brief focuses on measures related to agriculture and food security that cities can take to build their resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Urban ecosystems
This policy brief focuses on measures related to urban ecosystems that cities can take to build their resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Transformational adaptation
This policy brief focuses on how cities can build resilience to climate change through transformational adaptation.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Water supply and sanitation systems
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in the water supply and sanitation system as a contribution to urban resilience building.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Electricity and information and communication technology infrastructure
This policy brief examines ways to build resilience in energy and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as a contribution to building urban resilience to climate change.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: The built environment
This policy brief looks at ways to cities can foster resilience in the built environment.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Disaster preparedness and emergency management
This policy brief examines the potential implications of climate change for disaster preparedness and emergency management in Alberta’s cities, and presents options by which the resilience of these systems may be enhanced.
Professors, students, advocates take to the streets in March for Science rally
Michael Paterson, a senior research scientist with IISD Experimental Lakes Area, said the days when scientific research was widely accepted based on data are on the wane. "Sadly, when you look at what is going on in the world, that's not the case," Paterson said. "Support for science is diminishing everywhere. If we don't speak out, leaders forget."
Report highlights jobs and revenue impact of automation in mining
“Our analysis suggests that host countries will increasingly be at risk of reduced socioeconomic benefits from mining as existing new technologies are further rolled out in the near and medium terms,” says report lead author and IISD development economist Aaron Cosbey.