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How New ISO Principles, Launched At COP29, Are Reinvigorating ESG Efforts
Monday, 25 November 2024, 12:08 am | IISD
The ISO ESG Implementation Principles seek to both enhance understanding of ESG as well as offer guidance that will enable more consistent reporting. They are as applicable to a small organization as they are to a large one and are designed to support organizations ... More >>
Toilets Are Vital For Peace
Monday, 25 November 2024, 12:05 am | IISD
Today, 3.5 billion people are still living without access to safe toilets, and across the world, sanitation is under threat from violence, climate change, disasters and neglect. Having a safe, secure, hygienic facility to use several times a day is more ... More >>
Yes, You Can Manage Transformations For Sustainable Development!
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:52 pm | IISD
The Global Sustainable Development Reports (GSDR) of 2019 and 2023 review available evidence on the science and practice of transformation management, producing a practical framework. This Policy Brief explores how policymakers can use the framework to accelerate ... More >>
Exploring Opportunities In The Digital Economy And AI At The G20
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:48 pm | IISD
Led by the organizations Data Privacy Brasil and Observer Research Foundation, the task force has engaged several international think tanks to provide ideas and policy proposals on crucial areas of technological development, such as AI and Digital Public ... More >>
World Bank Report Outlines Pathways To Greener, More Inclusive Growth
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:46 pm | IISD
Titled, ‘Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways out of the Polycrisis,’ the report finds that today, almost 700 million people – or 8.5% of the global population – live in extreme poverty (on less than USD 2.15 per day). In LICs, ... More >>
Cooperation Critical For Implementation Of Global Biodiversity Framework
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:44 pm | IISD
Throughout the Cooperation Day, a range of stakeholders showcased their cooperative efforts and discussed how cooperation works in a whole-of-society and whole-of-government approach to integrate global strategies on biodiversity, climate change, land degradation, ... More >>
UN-wide Collaboration, Agrifood Systems Discussed At COP29 Events
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:16 pm | IISD
EMG and the UNFCCC Secretariat convened a high-level roundtable on strengthening action, promoting coherence, and scaling up support to address climate change. More >>
Implementation Of Latest NDCs Could Lead To Emissions Increase: UN Report
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:13 pm | IISD
The report estimates that full implementation of all latest NDCs is likely to lead to a 5.9% (ranging from 3.2%-8.6%) emission reduction by 2030 compared to the 2019 levels. More >>
G20 Leaders Reaffirm Commitment To SDGs, Inclusive Growth
Friday, 22 November 2024, 7:38 pm | IISD
The 22-page outcome document is guided by the Brazilian G20 Presidency’s priorities of: social inclusion and the fight against hunger and poverty; sustainable development, energy transitions, and climate action; and the reform of global governance institutions. More >>
IISD Applauds Canadian Industry Support for Carbon Pricing
Sunday, 17 July 2016, 7:54 pm | IISD
This morning, the Honourable Catherine McKenna announced that 23 major Canadian companies are to join the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. More >>
IISD Welcomes Five New Members to Its Board of Directors
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 9:59 pm | IISD
WINNIPEG—June 24, 2016—The International Institute for Sustainable Development welcomed five new members to its board of directors today, following a unanimous vote at the board’s general meeting. "I am delighted to welcome our new members ... More >>
Call for the Removal of Harmful Fossil-Fuel Subsidies
Friday, 17 April 2015, 8:48 pm | IISD
GENEVA—17 April 2015—A coalition of governments are calling for the phase-out of subsidies to fossil fuels in the lead-up to a major climate conference in Paris. A group of eight countries known as the Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform today ... More >>
Impact of China’s Carbon Policies on Buisness
Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 3:04 pm | IISD
BEIJING—23 March 2015—Seismic policy shifts are underway in China as it transitions toward a lower-carbon, more resource efficient economy, according to a series of new reports by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). More >>
Green Finance is a Growing Focus for China
Saturday, 21 March 2015, 10:12 am | IISD
BEIJING—March 21 2015—Green finance will accelerate the transition toward a sustainable economy in China and improve China’s financial system. More >>
Removing fossil-fuel subsidies results in huge benefits
Friday, 13 February 2015, 12:32 pm | IISD
GENEVA—11 February 2015—Eliminating the hundreds of billions of dollars that governments are spending on fossil-fuel subsidies would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by between 6 and 13 per cent by 2050. More >>
IISD Names Alfred Duda & Michael Paterson Senior Fellows
Friday, 2 August 2013, 3:40 pm | IISD
WINNIPEG—August 1, 2013— Dr. Alfred Duda , former senior advisor responsible for the International Waters focal area of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and Dr. Michael Paterson , recently retired senior scientist at Canada’s renowned ... More >>
IISD Launches Video Blog to Cover Climate Change Talks
Friday, 7 June 2013, 2:49 pm | IISD
BONN—June 7, 2013—IISD Reporting Services has launched a new video blog at the Bonn Climate Change Conference to make its reports on the negotiations more accessible to journalists and others covering the two-week meeting that began June 3. More >>
IISD Research Finds EU Biofuels Industry Receives Billions
Friday, 19 April 2013, 2:37 pm | IISD
IISD Research Finds EU Biofuels Industry Receives Billions Of Euros In Government Support, But Sustainable Development Benefits Are Small More >>
Scale and impacts of Nigeria’s energy subsidies
Friday, 21 September 2012, 8:21 pm | IISD
GENEVA—September 21, 2012— A guidebook released today by the Center for Public Policy Alternatives and the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Global Subsidies Initiative shines a much needed spotlight on the costs and benefits ... More >>
Life After Rio: A Commentary By Mark Halle, IISD
Tuesday, 26 June 2012, 2:02 pm | IISD
WINNIPEG—June 25, 2012— Mark Halle , International Institute for Sustainable Development executive director IISD-Europe, is back from Rio de Janeiro and has declared the Rio+20 summit a disappointing failure. More >>
