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Building a Climate-Resilient City: The built environment
This policy brief looks at ways to cities can foster resilience in the built environment.
Building a Climate-Resilient City: Disaster preparedness and emergency management
This policy brief examines the potential implications of climate change for disaster preparedness and emergency management in Alberta’s cities, and presents options by which the resilience of these systems may be enhanced.
Costing Energy and Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Nunavut: A mapping exercise
This report, entitled Costing Energy and Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Nunavut, was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada and undertaken by the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
IISD Reporting Services coverage of 7th session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC 7)
Ever since the original Minamata Convention on Mercury in Kumamoto and Minamata, Japan, IISD's Reporting Services team has been at all the major follow-up events, to bring you the latest news and updates from those who are negotiating the reduction of mercury emissions around the world.
Canada Advancing Global Efforts on Mercury Management
This brief summarizes the state of knowledge on mercury management in Canada based on recent reports, as well as decades of research at the IISD-Experimental Lake Area (IISD-ELA).
Stopping Payments to Polluters: Clearing the air with fossil fuel subsidy reform in China and India
Improving urban air quality is a headline concern in both India and China. Fossil fuel subsidy reform is a potentially powerful tool in securing an improvement for both countries.
Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2017
Investment Treaty News is IISD’s flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy.
sNAPshot | Getting Started on Vertical Integration
This sNAPshot policy brief from the NAP Global Network introduces the topic of vertical integration, the process of linking national and sub-national adaptation planning through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process.
IISD Best Practices Series: The Most-Favoured-Nation Clause in Investment Treaties
This IISD Best Practices paper studies the most-favoured-nation (MFN) clause in investment treaties and its interpretation by arbitral tribunals, drawing lessons for states.