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Good Regulatory Practice Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
This paper examines how good regulatory practice provisions are evolving in select key regional trade agreements and provides some policy insights of value for developing countries.
Policy Action Framework: Improving product sustainability information in e-commerce
How can policy-makers take action to improve product sustainability information for consumers using e-commerce platforms?
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Ethiopia
This report presents an evidence based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.
Global Market Report: Cotton prices and sustainability
Exploring production and consumption trends in the cotton sector and how voluntary sustainability standards can improve social and environmental results.
IGF Case Study: The Importance of Consultation and Engagement in Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
Highlighting good legal frameworks that cover a mine's life cycle and presenting illustrative cases from Canada and Peru.
Mapping India's Energy Policy 2022 (Update)
This study gathers and analyzes data on Indian government support for fossil fuels and clean energy for fiscal years 2014–2022.
The Value of Water Retention Beneficial Management Practices to Farmers and Landowners in the Seine Rat Roseau Watershed District
This report assesses the economic returns to communities and landowners from implementing on-farm water retention projects in the Seine, Rat, and Roseau watersheds in Manitoba, Canada.
Seal River Watershed: The case for conservation
This report lays out the benefits and considerations for establishing the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area in Manitoba, Canada.
The Value of Incorporating Nature in Urban Infrastructure Planning
This report explains how nature-based infrastructure helps create healthy, sustainable cities and argues that nature needs to be at the core of urban infrastructure planning.
Handcrafting the World's Freshwater Laboratory: IISD Experimental Lakes Area Annual Report 2021-2022
It's time to pay tribute to the handcrafted, do-it-yourself attitude that has made IISD Experimental Lakes Area the world’s freshwater laboratory.