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How We Do Things at IISD-ELA: Researching Mercury
This video explores the groundbreaking work that has been carried out at IISD-ELA to determine what impact mercury has on our water, and how we can best improve it.
Zebra Mussels in Manitoba: Here are the facts
Do you really understand why zebra mussels are dangerous to our water? Moreover, what can you do about them? IISD Experimental Lakes Area research scientist Scott Higgins breaks it down for you.
Caribbean Perspective: How is the NAP process helping countries prepare for climate change?
How are countries using the National Adaptation Plan process to prepare for climate change?
Sticks and Toxic Carrots: Clearing the air in China and India
Both countries can do more to ensure that policies on air pollution and clean energy are aligned.
How Can We Successfully Integrate the Sustainable Development Goals Into Our Current Policies?
How can we make sure that the Sustainable Development Goals are part of our governments' polices?
Could Canada stay on course if the U.S. pulls a U-turn on vehicle fuel efficiency?
Amin Assadolahi takes a look at the implications of the Trump Administration reopening the mid-term review of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which would have seen vehicle fleet efficiency rise more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025.
How Can the SDGs Contribute to Gender Equality?
How are the Sustainable Development Goals looking to ensure gender equity. This International Women's Day, Livia Bizikova takes a look.
Citizen Science: Gathering rivers of information for the knowledge pool
Karla Zubrycki describes some of the exciting "citizen science" work happening in the Lake Winnipeg Basin and explains why it can be so important for governments and the scientific community.
Webinar: Zombie Energy: Climate benefits of ending subsidies to fossil fuel production
On Thursday February 16, 2017, IISD’s Global Subsidies Initiative presented a webinar which convened experts who have crunched the numbers on both fiscal and climate benefits of ending fossil fuel subsidies at the level of countries, markets, and the entire world. This is a recording of that webinar.
Comprehensive Wealth in Canada: IISD's report launch
On December 1, 2016, IISD publicly released a report on measuring Comprehensive Wealth, an innovative approach, never before undertaken in Canada, to measuring wealth that looks beyond merely GDP.