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National Oil Companies and Climate Change: Insights for advocates
This webinar explores how climate and development advocates can engage with National Oil Companies, featuring a presentation on the new NRGI and IISD brief.
Coree Tull and Dave Zehnder: Time to invest in watershed security
Recent report from International Institute for Sustainable Development shows that natural infrastructure, like forests and wetlands, provides same services at half the cost of built infrastructure.
Financing Green Recovery From Fossil Fuel Taxation and Subsidy Reform
This brief reviews how the Government of Indonesia (GoI) can finance its COVID-19 recovery budget at the same time as the energy transition by raising funds from fossil fuel taxation and subsidy reform. It also provides recommendations on future expenditures.
How piecemeal carbon pricing affects cross-border lending
In June the IMF made the latest of many calls from economists for a market-oriented policy to tackle climate change. “Carbon pricing... is the least-cost option to deliver deep emission cuts,” it argued in a paper written ahead of a meeting of the leaders of the G20 group of large economies. Carbon taxes, as this newspaper has long argued, can be a powerful way to force polluters to pay for the harm they do to the environment by burning fossil fuels.
Aucun parti n’agira à la hauteur que requiert la crise climatique (in French)
Alors que la crise climatique exige une réduction drastique et rapide de nos GES à zéro émission pour 2030 comme l’ont réclamée les étudiants à la marche du 24 septembre dernier, les partis politiques de l’Assemblée nationale sont plus que timorés dans leurs objectifs. Maintien de l’objectif de Charest de -37.5% pour la CAQ, -55% pour QS, -45% pour le PLQ de Anglade et -50% pour le PQ.
Glasgow summit pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies faces an uphill battle
Subsidies that make coal, oil and gas cheaper are widely recognized as a roadblock to a transition toward cleaner energy. But they’ve proven hard to get rid of.
Sweden
Sweden is a funder of IISD's State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI).
Canadian Prairie Agriculture Under Climate Change: How can we chart a resilient path?
Join IISD and Climate West on December 2, 2021, for a discussion about the future of farming in the Canadian Prairies.
Aligning Recovery with the Energy Transition: Five principles for a “fossil-free recovery”
This workshop, a side session to the GEC Global Meeting 2021, will engage participants with IISD’s five principles for a fossil-free recovery using examples and discussion to evaluate strategies in practice.