Can We Count On Technology To Address Our Environmental Challenges?
"How much can emerging technologies help change our environment, and will they alone help address some of the environmental challenges we are faced with?"
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Webinar: Climate Resilience in Value Chains - Lessons Learned
This webinar will explore how recent value chain analyses integrate climate risks. Based on different approaches developed by leading international resilience programs, panelists will explore what is new in their methodologies and what opportunities these new analyses create.
Smart-Sourced Fuel Products
Many different types of “waste” or under-used plant materials can be turned into value-added bioenergy fuel products. This brochure, available in both English and French, focuses on such materials available in Manitoba, Canada, including agricultural residues, forestry residues, grassland plants and wetland plants.
Cattails Into Clean Energy: Where to from here?
Richard Grosshans takes a look at the success our bioeconomy work harvesting cattails into clean-energy pellets, and discusses where the project is headed now.
Webinar: The Future of Coal in China
Coal has been at the centre of China’s coal generators and producers have received favourable treatment, including access to finance and guaranteed power purchase agreements. This has led to rising coal generation overcapacity and driven curtailment of renewable generation. This webinar will explore these recent trends identify and potential reforms.
To remove fossil fuel subsidies in ten years, a plan is needed now
"In short, Canada has been sending the right signals, but now is the time to translate those messages into action. Broadly speaking, that requires three things."
Webinar: Quel est le rôle des femmes rurales dans l'atteinte des objectifs de développement durable?
Indonesia Uses Savings from Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform to Finance Development
Indonesia’s deep cuts to subsidies for fossil fuels have been matched by a substantial increase in spending on other areas of the state budget, which bodes well for the country’s economic and social development.
Canadian students to participate in major Lake Winnipeg watershed research project
"Students from eighteen high schools will spend the next couple of weeks collecting various data on the watershed — including phosphate and nitrate levels, turbidity, and species identification — as part of a citizen science project initiated by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Canadian Geographic Education."