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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."
Government Policies are Discouraging Adaptation to Climate Change
"Unless these perverse risk-shifting incentives are replaced with measures that strongly promote precautionary adaptation before disasters strike, climate change damages are likely to make the Wall Street meltdown seem like a minor blip."
Meeting Canada's Subsidy Phase-Out Goal: What it means in Ontario
IISD examines some of the fossil fuel subsidies in place in Ontario, how the government is responding to them and where more can be done.
Winnipeg: A bikeable, walkable city?
"Statistics Canada commuter surveys from 2011 show about 7.6 per cent of Winnipeggers walk or bike to work as their primary mode of transportation—Bike Winnipeg will tell you the number has increased since then."
The Water Brothers Explore Climate Change at IISD-ELA
At the end of May 2016, the Water Brothers visited IISD Experimental Lakes Area to shoot an episode on the impact of climate change on fresh water. They performed some of the science themselves, spoke with researchers, shot our beautiful vistas and, most importantly, met our fish.
Shaping the Contribution of the Trade System to the 2030 Agenda
Trade and trade policy are central to transforming our world, the objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.With the substance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) finalised, policy-making attention has now turned to implementation and to how progress against these important commitments made will be measured and reviewed.