Insights
Sustainable development is a broad, complex field with many overlapping, interconnected issues. It can be hard to stay on top of where progress is being made, what new issues are emerging, and how current events are shifting us in new directions. IISD’s experts have the insight you need.
Highlights
How Indigenous Negotiators Fared in 2024
In the foreword in The State of Global Environmental Governance 2024, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim shares her insights on what goals were reached, where "business as usual" must change, and what her priorities are for 2025.
FfD4 Countdown: Resource taxation must be part of the agenda at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference
The Fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) presents a critical opportunity to address resource taxation, leveraging opportunities to enhance domestic resource mobilization and building on existing domestic and international efforts to promote fair and progressive taxation.
FfD4 Countdown: The Fourth Financing for Development Conference Must Address Urgent Debt Relief for Low-income Countries
The Fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) in July 2025 is crucial to tackle sovereign debt issues. With 35 low-income countries in debt distress, urgent relief and global debt reforms are needed. Clear, actionable commitments must be made for effective debt relief and restructuring.