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Cutting Emissions Through Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Taxation

Modelling the results of 32 countries shows that fossil fuel subsidy reform saves countries 6% of emissions on average while generating significant subsidy savings as co-benefits.

Report July 4, 2021

A hotter future is already here — and Canada is not ready

Like the pandemic, climate change causes the poor and the frail to suffer most. We need to prepare.

IISD in the news July 3, 2021

IISD Commits to Advancing Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Action at the Generation Equality Forum

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in its role as the Secretariat of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network, commits to working with interested government partners to advance gender-responsive adaptation action.

Statement July 2, 2021

Step Off The Gas: New perspectives and opportunities to shift international public finance from fossil fuels to clean energy

This event will outline the decisive role that international public finance plays in accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy in the Global South.

Webinar July 1, 2021

Building Institutional Capacities for Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Action in Jamaica

This project aims to build institutional capacities to integrate gender considerations into climate finance programming in Jamaica.

Project July 1, 2021

A decade of failing Lake Winnipeg

Meeting phosphorus license limits at Winnipeg’s North End sewage treatment plant? Neither difficult nor complicated. Just a simple problem that has become so mired in competing agendas and so obscured by decades of political showmanship that it’s now hard to sort out evidence from ideology.

IISD in the news June 30, 2021

IISD Staff and Board of Directors Welcome Michelle Edkins as New Chair

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has a new Chair of its Board of Directors, effective today.

Statement June 30, 2021

Building Bridges to a Just Transition: Connecting India's challenges and solutions with international experience

This brief provides an initial assessment of priorities and opportunities for research and information sharing on just transition in India based on a review of international literature and expert interviews.

Brief June 30, 2021

Parliamentarian Action #5 | Alternative Approaches to Collateral to Increase Women’s Access to Rural and Agricultural Finance

The fifth virtual dialogue of the Parliamentarians Actions for Gender Equality and Resilient Food Systems in Response to Covid-19 series brought together parliamentarians, financial institutions, and other main stakeholders to discuss the importance of developing alternative approaches for risk sharing and management that can increase women’s access to finance through alternative collateral requirements.

Webinar June 29, 2021

Natural Resources report spells danger ahead if we don’t get ready for climate catastrophe

Crumbling infrastructure, billions of dollars of annual costs, and frequent extreme weather events are just a handful of the disasters spelled out for the country’s future in a landmark report that says the time has come to brace for impact.

IISD in the news June 29, 2021