Sustainable Supply Chains for EV Batteries
This hybrid event discusses strategies to create an internationally competitive electric vehicle ecosystem in India.
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Experts concerned over EU due diligence law's impact on Global South
Experts have welcomed the proposed EU law to hold companies accountable for adverse impacts along their entire value chain, but have also raised concerns about the negative impacts the new due diligence rules could have on economies of the Global South. The proposed corporate sustainability due diligence directive seeks to ensure that large EU companies and businesses operating in the EU identify, prevent, and mitigate their adverse impacts on human rights and the environment throughout their value chain. But the law has also raised concerns over the unintended consequences it could cause to economies in the global south.
Transboundary Climate Risks and the National Adaptation Planning Process
Climate risks cut across national borders. This brief aims to offer adaptation practitioners, policy-makers, and negotiators—especially those involved in their countries' national adaptation plan (NAP) processes—new perspectives on how the NAP process can play a role in addressing transboundary climate risks.
India's Potential in the Midstream of Battery Production
This report summarizes consultations with over 25 companies and actors to determine what factors are crucial in the considerations of companies on where to invest in and expand battery cell manufacturing.
Lithium-Sourcing Roadmap for India
This report aims to provide a strategy to guide policy-makers in sourcing lithium responsibly to promote clean energy manufacturing in India, with the broader aim of supporting low-carbon economic growth, creating equitable jobs, and helping to mitigate climate change impacts.
Canada, a giant oil producer, urges others to end fossil fuel subsidies
Canada is pushing the United States and other major economies to follow through on pledges to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies, which have soared despite the growing threat of climate change. Such subsidies hit records last year, according to several watchdog groups, including one that estimated that major world economies—members of the G-20 cooperation forum—surpassed $1 trillion in subsidies for the first time in 2022. That’s a fourfold increase over subsidy levels in 2010, the year after G-20 nations agreed to phase out support for fossil fuels.
Carbon sequestration among a plethora of carbon delusions
A recent report sponsored by an environmental advocacy group and think tank, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, examined carbon capture and storage. The new research draws on available data from about 30 currently operating commercial carbon capture facilities globally, including a handful in Canada.
Analyzing the Systemic Impacts of Forest Landscape Restoration: The case of Viridis Terra in Peru
This Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) focuses on land restoration interventions in the Peruvian Andes and the socio-economic benefits for the community.
Working with Countries to Move Beyond GDP
Any framework that goes beyond GDP to measure societal progress must be country owned.
What happens to Canada after oil demand peaks?
What will the energy transition mean for Canada's oil and gas sectors, which have long been a powerhouse of the country's economy? Aaron Cosbey, a senior associate and economist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, lays out what he sees happening to demand for fossil fuels in the next decade, and how the country can navigate the transition to minimize economic disruption.